unknownseas | FIRST TRIAL

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FIRST TRIAL

[ After a while, once all the appropriate clues have been found, Mayor Fontaine calls out again over the speakers. ]

Alright, citizens, pack it in quick and head to the back of the Hall of the Founders. You have business to take care of.

[ When they do reach the Bathysphere station, Eleanor is manning the controls, gaze quiet and even over the crowd. The hatch at the front of the strange elevator is open, and everyone is gestured inside. A series of small submerisbles are lined up, waiting to be ridden. ]

Just hop into the bathyspheres one or two at a time, and the system will get you where you need to go.

[ It's a long, cramped ride from here, but Fontaine's word is true. At least you can tune into the radio in the pod?

The bathyspheres take you down until even the few lights of Rapture are out of sight, down until lights of a different kind are visible - the reds and blues of bioluminescent sea creatures, a little too out of your way to make out what they are, blending to a strange sort of not-quite-purple as the bathysphere reaches its final destination: a glass dome built into the sea floor, about the size of an average house.

As one by one the bathyspheres arrive carrying the new citizenry of New Rapture, less natural lights than those of the creatures around you begin to click on in the dome. In the center, most of the space is taken up by a circle of podiums, each with an image of one of you engraved into it.

A projector of some kind kicks on, which combined with the lighting allows for the familiar silhouette of Mayor Fontaine at his chair to appear on the side of the dome, watching over you. ]

Time to do your best to figure out who killed the Diamond in the Rough. And do yourselves a favor: keep it interesting. I'm here if you have any burning inquiries.

[ And here it is.

Welcome to your first trial. ]

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We have plenty of young, untrained people here. People who will panic and lose their heads.

Was the killer trained, do you think?

I don't think so, at least.

So then, the killer may very well have bitten Adaman-san when they panicked. With how messy the crime seems to be, I think that seems likely.

Unless anyone has a better explanation for the bite.

I dunno, maybe Nandor got hungry?

Seems like a funny place for it.

I'm just saying. If we're looking at every option, it feels kind of weird to leave off "guy who probably drinks blood."

No, it's a good point.

[ She doesn't sound convinced of it, though. ]

It'd make more sense if it was around the head wound, at least.

...

Why specifically Nandor?

Uh... 'cause he's obviously some sort of blood-eating creature?

[He glances at Nandor

Then at Joy, completely baffled by that statement.]

That's awfully rude to say, don't you think? Nandor is an upstanding citizen!

Edited 2022-06-25 18:56 (UTC)

...His profile does mention he enjoys blood.

[The color flushes from his face a little at that.]

I... haven't really paid much attention to them, I'm afraid. Most of the profiles seemed made specifically to torment us and I did not want to have any unfair biases towards others if my profile was any indication.

I think that's a fair decision to make, but... they do seem to be accurate so far, don't they?

... Jonathan, he literally has "blood" on his likes and I have never seen the man eat food.

[He seems gently nervous at that.]

Well... neither have I... but I supposed that maybe he eats at odd hours. After all, it's not like I am in the restaurant all that often.

Yeah, okay but who brings ice cubes to a party like that's a dish? The man's, like, a vampire or something.

Okay, it says virgin blood. Did you ever consider that maybe it was the name of a cocktail or something?

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allatonce - 2022-06-25 19:06 (UTC) - Expand

He didn't like when I cooked the other day either~.

If you're implying something, perhaps his bite would leave a distinctive mark. A comparison would be easy to make -- and without having him bite anyone, of course.

[Aiba keeps it vague because Jonathan maybe won't like the word 'vampire' getting thrown around, hah]

Edited 2022-06-25 18:57 (UTC)