SECOND TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ After sufficient time has passed, and you're all as ready to avenge dear Obi as you've ever been, Mayor Fontaine speaks. ]

Alright, that oughta do it. Pack up the evidence and head to the bathyspheres, same as last week.

[ There's yet again a line of spherical submersibles back there, ready to take off as the citizens of New Rapture climb aboard one or two at a time. And one at a time the bathyspheres descend into the abyss below New Rapture, deeper and deeper, once again to the dome on the seafloor, lit all around by bio-luminescent... slugs, of some kind? They're a little closer today.

The ring of podiums still sits in the center, just like last week. Two more podiums are going to stand empty. Two more dead. By the end of the day, best case scenario? It'll be three.

The projector clicks on. Mayor Fontaine is as here as he's gonna be. ]

You all know why you're here. Night Knight is dead. And I know plenty of you liked him alright, so don't let him down, hm? Or do. I'm here if you have questions.

[ Welcome to your second trial. ]

Comments

[vholran]

Pathetic.

[allatonce]

Cool, do you feel big and powerful now that you've made fun of him? Can we get back to, I don't fucking know, solving a fucking murder?

[buriedstar]

For the record, that goes both ways. Unless there's something to be gained from his whining, all it does is detract from the actual focus of finding who killed Obi.

[allatonce]

Dude, his boyfriend just died. Just let him grieve and tune him out.

[sixthnonsense]

[Scandalized gasp. Not in a bad way or anything, he just thought they were being roommates! (and they were roommates)]

They were boyfriends?

[hotpaprika]

[Okay Jonathan is Officially brought out of his funk at that.]

W-what?! What on Earth made you think we had such a relationship?

[sixthnonsense]

I didn't!! Obi just said you were hanging out 'cause you slept better havin' someone there!

cw: homophobia

[allatonce]

Bruh, that's the kind of thing I said to my mom when I had sleepovers in high school with girls I had a crush on.

[inaclearing]

[Immediately:]

Don't do this.

[sixthnonsense]

W-What? what did I say??

[inaclearing]

He's already having a hard time, you don't need to get on him like that.

[Whatever may or may not be going on with Jonathan, this doesn't seem like the time to unpack it!]

[prompocalypse]

People are gay, Steven.

[sixthnonsense]

My name's Hagakure...

[Who the fuck is Steven.]

And I know that?! That's why I'm asking!

[prompocalypse]

Oh... sorry. You kind of look like a Steven I know.

[allatonce]

......... Were they not?

[Literally two seconds after she told someone to not distract from the trial here she is doing it herself.]

[sixthnonsense]

I mean, I dunno!

[hotpaprika]

We... we were simply good friends! I have no idea where you had the idea that we were...!

[allatonce]

... When I, a lesbian, say I'm "good friends" with someone I regularly sleep in the same bed as, I'm usually dating them.

[giddyundertaker]

Really now? I thought he was engaged to another.

[ Just casually asking that. Not judging at all. ]

[sixthnonsense]

So did I... Not that it's my business or anything.

[YET HE DERAILED THE TRIAL BY BEING NOSY.]

[buriedstar]

Oh, I have been. [ He states this very clearly and plainly. ]

But you can't expect everyone to have the same kind of fortitude. This isn't the first interruption he's made and he's shown no signs of being able to control himself. Whether they were screwing or not, there's a time and a place.

[allatonce]

....... You two really went "if I'm the biggest asshole in the room, nobody can hurt me," huh? I mean the sociopathy looks great on you, but wow.

[inaclearing]

[Please know that Brett jots down a lot of the shit you say in shorthand, this is great material]

[buriedstar]

If wanting results makes me an asshole, then sure. [ He shrugs, he's been called way worse. ]

But thanks for the compliment, everything looks great on me~.

[hotpaprika]

[Rage fills Jonathan's eyes as he glares at Vholran. His hands are balled into fist and he looks like he's about to do something he will regret.

Then Joy says that and he... well.. he doesn't relax so much as it knocks a tiny bit of sense into him.

He stills his hand.]