FIFTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ It's not terribly long, once everything has been found, before Davy Jones heads out to round you all up once more and take you into the theatre. At least plenty of you are around the same area, so it probably doesn't take terribly long.

The ride down to the trial room is the same as ever - a blast of the organ, a slow descent. It's really starting to become clear, though, just how your numbers are decreasing. You're already down three, counting the absence of Chloe, potentially more when you come back up.

The crew of the Dutchman is singing as Jones lets you out into the trial room. ]

To business, passengers. I am about if you need guidance.

[ The circle of podiums is less populated than ever. So many of you are islands now, so to speak.

The song dies down, the waters quiet.

Welcome to your fifth trial.. ]

Comments

[dokkalfheimr]

And yet you aren't sure of any of what you're saying - injuries he "potentially" sustained? He killed my retainer. I did not fight Decus, because I'm not interested in dying here.

[magycks]

Mmm, but points against Zero aside, you don't know that. You don't know that someone in this circle didn't find Decus and Plumeria, those two morons, engaged in combat, and that they didn't engage the former whilst the latter dragged herself off. And you don't know that they, or someone else entirely, didn't feed her cyanide as she lay about at the brink of death.

Also, did you stick six knives into his chest postmortem? Just, you know, wondering.

[jibunwo]

[wow, fuck you too]

[magycks]

[ listen she can't play good cop to his bad cop, she can only play worse cop ]

[dokkalfheimr]

[...Ah.]

I did not. In the event that I came across Decus before the rest of you, my concern would have been more with my dying retainer rather than with mutilating a corpse.

[magycks]

Good to know.

[leaveittomother]

Again, culprit aside, it's clear Decus had some time while injured because a quick stab to the chest can be fatal fairly quickly:

He drew that heart. He might have been preparing to die after the fight with Plumeria.

[magycks]

Maybe he was ready to die, but preparing for it? Nah.

[ltcommandroid]

If you have another suggestion, I would be glad to hear it. The evidence against you at this moment is only circumstantial - I do not believe we can make conclusive statements about your involvement. But I also do not believe we can take your word alone on the matter. He did kill your retainer.

[dokkalfheimr]

...Very well.