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

[scouserer]

So--So, what, Albedo was just made out of chalk this whole time and we didn't know?

[leaveittomother]

Stranger things have happened...

[ltcommandroid]

Perhaps. I had not scanned him.

[inb4 data just scans everyone right here and now]

[scouserer]

Huh!

[Well. That's very helpful, actually.]

What else can that device scan for?

[ltcommandroid]

Chemical composition, energy signatures, subspace signals...

[whatever technobabble stuff is relevant for this week's plot, pretty much!]

[scouserer]

[...Okay, so the trial is important, BUT Constantine wants to fuck around.]

What happens if you point it at me, then?

[For Data's sake, we'll just say that he's like...a normal guy with unusually healthy lungs for someone who smokes so much. Also, non-human compounds in his blood.]

mods...?

[ltcommandroid]

[UH WELL what actually happens is Lu runs around researching tricorders for a lil bit and determines that the standard one can "be used as a makeshift medical tricorder if necessary." God knows what that means. It could maybe pick all that up?

MODS HOW MUCH CAN I BULLSHIT HERE]

[bathymetric]

[ It can't get much more specific than "normal living guy, vitals doing Alright," but it can get that! ]

[scouserer]

[makes sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[ltcommandroid]

Your vital signs appear standard.

[deathmagnetic]

...Even something like this is beyond me.

[ Unless

IT WAS THE WORK OF AN ENEMY STAND??! Alright, no. ]

[thisaroma]

Wait, is that what he meant about not being an actual human?!

[ That he was made of CHALK????? ]