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

[misinforms]

I was looking for someone whom I believed would know very little about the occult and would let their guard down long enough for me to kill them. I didn't dislike him per se. He was just unfortunately the person I thought would fit best.

[damnfourthemerald]

I see. Very pragmatic.

[Listen, he tried to destroy a planet because someone fucked with his memories and he needed to make things right with someone he cared about. He has NO fucking moral high horse to sit upon.]

If it's any consolation, I had hoped it wasn't you. You didn't strike me as the type. [To be fair, Shadow doesn't people very well.]