SECOND TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ Once enough time has passed to gather the appropriate information, Davy Jones once again moves to collect any stragglers who don't make it back to the theatre. ]

Step lively, same procedure as the last time!

[ Before long he plays that same complicated song on the organ and, crowded into the elevator, you all descend once more into the depths of the ship. But you might notice as you head down... there's more room in the elevator than there was before, with three of you gone now. Not much, but still. It's noticeable.

The sound of another shanty echoes from the Dutchman below as the elevator reaches its destination, that same foreboding glass room at the very base of the vessel. The sea is dark about you.

The circle of podiums is largely unchanged, though Shard and Adeline's have joined Carmen's in looking nigh hundreds of years older than all the others, rusting and covered in bivalves and seaweed. ]

Ye all seem to have caught on quick to what to do. I be here if any inquiries burn too fiercely.

[ The Captain is late again, it seems, but things are set to start anyway.

Welcome to your second trial. ]

Comments

[ignobel]

But... we don't know she's the only one who got hurt, right? I'm thinking she did a lot of that damage in the lounge and the laser tag place, because I don't know that there'd be any killer that would go around making that much of a mess.

You're right, though, we probably need to know more about what happened there...

[onlyyoucan]

Which means we still only have a few options, and we've got gaps in the story.

[ignobel]

There's definitely gaps there. We don't know how bad off she was before she got out of the laser tag arena, or after the stairs? Or the Kraken. I'm not real sure of when stuff happened...

[What's a timeline.]

You think there's some way to fill them up?

[onlyyoucan]

I think whoever was eating in the cafe, it wasn't Adeline. She'd have fed her friends too. And if the theory with Alice and Decus is true, that would explain it. it probably also happened before the killer started a game with Adeline in the arena, then began to throw things at her, and she had to fight and escape to the lounge, up the ladder [she's military, stairs on ships are ladders] and out, and then overboard to try and swim far enough that when the Kraken threw her back up, she'd be out of range. But that wasn't enough to save her, given all the damage she'd taken.

[ignobel]

It was pretty late at night, though, right? Not everybody is hungry around that time... You think Alice and Decus were messing around in there, then?

[She's kind of only got the broad strokes of that situation, given that she kind of tries not to think about their strange kink tomato arrangement too much.]

They were stairs, but yeah. She's probably fast, 'cause cyborg, so I think she could've escaped unless there was something messing with her mobility or her ability to fight back? Or maybe it was somebody she really didn't wanna beat up.

[onlyyoucan]

What did Zero say last week? "The only people who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed." She knew they were coming at her, and even if she was fighting back, she was probably trying to avoid actually doing lethal damage.

[ignobel]

Ooohh, wait wait, you mean if she killed somebody defending herself then she'd be stuck here on trial. That's messed up.

[Allenby that's basically what Shard did. Sort of. Man this murder stuff is complicated. She thinks that over a bit.]

So she had to hold back, but -- she couldn't actually stop her attacker for that or some other reason. I'm still wondering if her cybernetic hair brain stuff is what messed her up, but I guess she could've gotten hit with the guns too. Hard to tell...

[onlyyoucan]

It sounded like it was a lot of things, but that she was knocked hard onto the stairs and had a chunk of her hair and wires torn out. Those were the big ones.

[ignobel]

It's pretty easy to mess someone up on the stairs, no matter who you are. And if she was panicking, she could have hurt herself worse, even if the attacker wasn't aiming for it.

If you're a cyborg, and strong, and panicking, and used force in the wrong way...