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.

Comments

[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?