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

[inaclearing]

[Brett hums, looking over his notes.]

It's possible. Did we ever account for these missing bandages that were mentioned?

[onemillion]

Obi had defensive wounds, didn't he? Is it possible that his killer was injured badly enough to require those bandages?

[sixthnonsense]

Assumin' it's another guy, if his blood's at the scene too, did he just decide to dump more blood to make it look like it all came from Amigo-bi?

[onemillion]

If that was the case, then wouldn't Nandor have tasted that? I think that would stand out more if it was dumped on afterwards to add more blood to the scene.

[But he is not an expert on vampires and how they taste blood so like. Maybe?????]

[sixthnonsense]

[Yeah, true, Nandor's got the Vampire Senses to tell them apart. Probably??]

Ugh, good point... Maybe it was just for obscurin' his wounds like the others were saying.

[onemillion]

It certainly didn't seem to do a good job of that considering he ended up in the pool...

[But honestly, he has no damn idea.]

[fuckingguy]

While my senses have gone from superhuman to "kinda okay" in the last three weeks... you are talking about the blood bag, yes? I would have noticed if it was that. They put a bunch of chemicals in there, make it taste off .

[onemillion]

I thought that might be the case. Thank you for the clarification.

[So yeah, the blood on that knife was definitely human and not knockoff blood. I guess.]

[allatonce]

Okay. That's solid. Can we do injury check 2: electric boogaloo or something and stop bullying random people?

[joy literally last week you accused nandor for no reason —]

[inaclearing]

I - I think I'd rather someone else did, this time.

[Last time was Bad and also he seems like he’s low-key freaking out about that radio stuff now - his hands are trembling a little as he writes.]

[onemillion]

I believe that may be the best way to keep going.

[It will at least be a distraction from............ all of that. Oh my god.]

Would anyone like to volunteer to do that?

[capreelcious]

Fine, fine. I'm bored standin' at this silly podium anyways.

[allatonce]

Legit. I'll take the girls, you take the guys. [A beat.] Minus Mielle, who Mafuyu can take care of, probably.

[capreelcious]

Sounds good!

[onemillion]

Thank you, that would be appreciated.

[Floyd's probably the best person here since he hasn't said anything that's pissed someone off today. Probably!!]

[capreelcious]

[ Oh yeah, this is a record. He's behaving for now because he was popcorning all the drama. ]

[onemillion]

[Sometimes you gotta and he is in no position to judge.]