The Mock Trial

[airlockedmods]

[Jesse McCree is dead, the first victim of, what the Overseers seem to hope, is a long game of motives and murder for whatever their reasons. With the investigation completed, C.E.C.E.'s voice comes over the system and directs the Champions to proceed to the locked elevator door at the end of the hallway. Once all Champions are on board, the elevator begins a slow descent down beyond any area that they've been able to explore so far. At least the elevator music is charming.

When the elevator door opens, the Champions enter a courtroom with 21 podiums arranged in a circle and each one marked with a name. McCree's face grins casually at the 20 surviving members from one of the podiums, a greyscale portrait in honor of the dead.]

Congratulations. We have now entered the trial portion of the test. I trust that you will do your best to determine who disturbed the peace by committing murder. Once the culprit has been found, they will face an appropriate punishment for their crime. If you fail to determine the culprit, however, they will be allowed to leave the space station and the rest of you will face punishment instead.

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[stitch_in_time]

[The Doctor takes the red bead he found on McCree and puts in on his podium.]

McCree was holdin' this, in his prosthetic hand. Anyone recognize it?

[semperperatus]

Nothing I've seen before, Doctor.

[mikooon]

Oh! An article from the murderer, perhaps! Let's try to think of everyone with red beads in their clothes.

[SCANNING...]

[stitch_in_time]

Might be, yeah. Didn't look like there'd been much of a struggle, going by the state of McCree's body, but he might've gotten one lucky grab in.

[overears]

We're all wearing the same crime against fashion.

[misplacedxsheath]

The victim still had his hat, did he not? It was likely an accessory that wasn't removed with the rest of our belongings.

[mikooon]

[she ain't wrong, this shits a crime]

Is it possible that someone might've been able to keep their small accessories, like earrings? Or they made themselves a little charm after arriving here?

...Of course, the bead could be something else entirely.

[semperperatus]

They didn't let me keep my ring, if that's the case.

[SLIIIIIGHTLY SALTY ABOUT THAT]

[mikooon]

Oh, thank goodness I didn't get to the ring stage just yet. I would've positively lost my mind.

[yeah they didn't get to the ring stage because they got ERASED FROM EXISTENCE until Fate/Extella comes out and I can finally choose a good goddamn canon point.]

[refusedtoleave]

I was wearing earnings and wedding ring and they didn't let me keep them.

[Forever going to be bitter about her wedding ring.]

[stitch_in_time]

They didn't let me keep anythin' I had on me, and I've usually got pretty deep pockets.

[No sonic, no psychic paper, no TARDIS key, not even a stick of celery.]

[voltrounds]

Some of us have accessories, though. [By way of example, she turns her head off to the side, gesturing to the tiny blue scrunchies holding her pigtails together.]

[overears]

I don't remember him having anything like that.

[Someone was looking at McCree a lot.]

[misinforms]

[Naho tilts her head and narrows her eyes.]

He had it?

[It takes her a moment but she pulls something out.]

Compare it to this one.

[It's another bead-- same size and color.]

[semperperatus]

...Where did you get that?

[misinforms]

It's mine. I've been looking all over for it.

[semperperatus]

When did you lose it?

[Investigate pal you realize this makes you look super suspect right]

[misinforms]

[Oh she knows. And she doesn't like it one bit.]

Thursday night. I took the other one off then as well because I didn't want to lose it too.

[semperperatus]

....You realize that was last night, right?

[misinforms]

I'm not an idiot-- of course I realize that. Do you think I'd just lie about something this important?

[Sorry, this is just. Unpleasant for her as well.]

[stitch_in_time]

Any idea why McCree would've had it? You realize how this looks, yeah?

[semperperatus]

[He bites his lip, not wanting to respond to that. Because the response would be "I don't know". ]

Just...where were you at 11pm?

[This is seriously not going well.]

[mikooon]

INTERRUPTION!

[literally no one needs to announce their interruption before actually interrupting. Tamamo's is literally so fucking extra.]

If I may throw in my two cents. If she had been the real murderer and found out an identifying accessory of hers went missing, I believe she would've returned to the scene of the crime to try looking for it, in case it was left there. Of course, she might've been caught while doing so... but honestly, who is out at 12am onwards?

Better to risk a check than to have your identity so inexplicably linked to the murder like this. [Pause.] I know I would do that!

[For FUCKS sake]

Mods?

[stitch_in_time]

Gripped tight in his cybernetic hand, yeah.

[Fin's asking the relevant question, so he's just gonna take the bead from Naho and compare it to the one he found. How similar are they?]

[airlockedmods]

[It's a match.]