FOURTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ Well! That's sure something, isn't it? There may or may not be a lot of you excited to get down to business, but Jones does eventually move to collect you all and bring you to the theatre. It's a familiar routine by now, perhaps even comfortingly so given the irregularities of this particular killing.

Two of you gone this week. The elevator is started to feel downright spacious, don't you think?

A shanty, as usual, echoes from the crew of the Dutchman as you enter. The room is the same as it has ever been before you as the elevator settles into position. ]

To yer positions, passengers. Chins up.

[ Three more podiums claimed by the rust and wear.

You have your evidence, and you're going to need it before long. The music outside dies down.

Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

[jibunwo]

[Zero's back in his mask after a quick detour to his room, Emily sitting neatly on the floor behind his podium. When he spoke up it was completely deadpan and almost clinical:]

I found Emily in the arcade, in the second player spot for House of the Dead. It looked like whoever had been playing--Sara, I can only assume--had lost and the gun was tossed aside.

[cethflayn]

[So like after Flayn has a sick moment and coughs a bit-]

E-Emily...! Is she okay? Is she unharmed?

[jibunwo]

I saw nothing strange about her, but I brought her with me just in case.

[ahelpingpaw]

Sara liked to play with Emily -- I once found her with her doll friend in the arcade. She wouldn't have said no to playing with someone else, but if Emily was sitting there on that spot I suppose she wasn't with the killer before...everything happened.

[Wrong place at the wrong time, pretty much]

[jibunwo]

Also a sound conclusion; I would estimate it more likely she may have been alone and overheard whatever confrontation Albedo was having.

[leaveittomother]

She often would take her everywhere and talk to her so her playing a two player game with Emily doesn't seem too out of the ordinary especially if the doll was sitting there. She also wanted to make sure no one dies.

If she heard a confrontation she'd jump in.

[hellahighwater]

...She would. She...was determined to do something...by her own power.

[ Heyyyy this sucks. ]

[jibunwo]

[yeah he's just real quiet over here because this day is the worst]

[scouserer]

[This really sucks!!]

[ahelpingpaw]

That...may be possible. It does seem like the killer t-took their time with Sara. Albedo may have been dead by then.

[Given the state of her crime scene and what not and how Albedo apparently wasn't on the same level as Sara somehow perhaps Albedo didn't encounter the killer near Sara at all]

[cethflayn]

I am relieved she is unharmed. Emily...is very important to her.

[Emily is a good girl and did not deserve this.]

[jibunwo]

...You should take her after this. Someone may as well look after her.

[cethflayn]

[She thinks back to a particular conversation with Sara, where she said she and Zero were the same.]

...I shall, but I will also not keep you from her, should you wish to see her as well.

[Joint custody!!]

[paucipan]

[Hmm...]

So we might be able to wager that the confrontation may have started there, then? Sara may not have had time to put the gun away, if she was being targeted.

[Unless Sara just has some sort of gamer rage she didn't know about???]

[jibunwo]

Perhaps, or it's possible she heard whatever commotion came from what happened with Albedo and went running to find it. Either way, she wouldn't have simply left Emily under normal circumstances.