The Mock Trial

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[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.

Comments

[waitforit]

[ Ugh. Murders. Ugh. So not awesome. At least Barney was lucky enough to find evidence that didn't involve any blood. He'll just get on with it, walking up to his podium. ]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the murder weapon might be one of the hand rails from the hallway. I checked it out this morning and one of them was missing. Looked like it had been unscrewed from the wall.

...So whoever did this thing didn't just pick up the first thing they found lying around. They had this thing planned.

[ He is actually surprisingly serious about this. Death isn't funny, go figure. ]

[semperperatus]

Wait a second, they unscrewed it? How did they do that!?

[DON'T TELL HIM THERE WAS A GODDAMN SCREWDRIVER AND HE NEVER FOUND IT BECAUSE THE KILLER DID!!!]

[thetimebomb]

Maybe they found an item that can unscrew the bar? There's a lot of things that can be used as a screwdriver if you know how to use it.

[semperperatus]

I haven't found anything! I mean, except for maybe scissors, but that would have taken a really long time. They would have had to have started unscrewing it long before--

[Oh. Ooooh.]

Damnit, they could have been unscrewing it since the motive and we wouldn't have noticed...!

[refusedtoleave]

[Oh... Natsuhi's just going to tap the metal box in front of her and cringe.

It's definitely ending up in the owners face now.]

I found a screwdriver in the kitchen.

[stitch_in_time]

Oh, FANTASTIC, tell me you're kidding.

[refusedtoleave]

[She opens the box and shows whats inside.

There's a full miniature took set there.]

[stitch_in_time]

Oh for- I been spending this whole damn week trying to hack this place with stone knives an' bearskins, and someone found THIS and used it to-

Where'd they even get somethin' like this?

[refusedtoleave]

I don't know. That boy with long hair- the 'Fire Handling' one found the box.

I'm not sure where though...

/slides in a late response

[almightyconflagration]

In a cabinet. Dumb place to hide them if you ask me.

[mikooon]

Alright... so did ANYONE see this around before?

[Or did the killer fucking stuff it up their ass the entire time]

I don't mean to assume, but perhaps they requested for a tool box. From our lovely Overseers themselves. Since they wanted a murder so badly...

[thetimebomb]

[Well that answers a couple of questions.]

So there was a screwdriver? Where could the culprit have possibly gotten it?

[lycoctonum]

So it all checks out. Growl growl... a screwdriver seems out of place in a kitchen but maybe it just had a junk drawer?

[thetimebomb]

Why would a ship that has everything else in the right place have a junk drawer? It seems off for a place like this.

[lycoctonum]

I don't know... This place is weird enough for one.

[thetimebomb]

Just because this place is weird doesn't mean it doesn't follow some sort of logic. Wouldn't we have noticed a junk drawer before now anyway?

[... Maybe Lord Hater would do something like that but really none of this seemed like something he would do.]

[stitch_in_time]

More to the point, the Overseer's have made good an' sure we haven't had access to anything that could help us. Wherever that tool kit came from, I doubt it was just lyin' out in the open all week.

[refusedtoleave]

It was in the same drawer as the cutlery. We would have seen it before if it had always been there.

[lycoctonum]

They did a poor job of hiding it.

[voltrounds]

Maybe they didn't have much time to hide it?

[semperperatus]

[The look on Shepard's face is priceless, ok

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY]

D--they found a screwdriver!

[HE IS SO MAD WHY DIDN'T HE FIND ONE]

[refusedtoleave]

[And he's not getting this one.

Natsuhi's going to keep it so someone else can't try this again.]

[semperperatus]

[DUDE HE WANTS TO USE IT FOR NON MURDER ESCAPE HOW COULD YOU]

[stitch_in_time]

[You'll share that if they can talk Natsu into not hiding it, right]

[stitch_in_time]

[Uh, SAME QUESTION AS FIN, THANKS. Do you know what he might've been able to do with a screwdriver.]

[Answer: NOT THIS.]