unknownseas | THIRD TRIAL

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THIRD TRIAL

[ Two bodies this week. As a result, it's a little longer before Mayor Fontaine's voice calls out over the loudspeakers. ]

All right, that'll do, all of you. Get to the bathyspheres. Trial time.

[ There's fewer bathyspheres this week, aren't there? It's starting to get really noticeable. One by one, alone or in pairs, you descend into the depths. The bottom of the seafloor, a place no human life was meant to travel to unassisted. It's dark, until it isn't, the same bio-luminescent slugs as before lighting up the area and revealing the great glass dome in which the trial takes place.

Within, three more podiums have gone dark. They remain empty as you all gather around into the circle.

The projector clicks on, and you see the silhouette of Mayor Fontaine above you. ]

We all know why we're here. Florida Man and Cryptobro got themselves got. Up to you to figure out who did it, or... well, you know by now.

[ Welcome to your third trial. ]

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Ah, should we start taking turns, then? Yelling at each other until it forces a confession?

Beats standing here for six hours while everyone pretends to play junior detective and ends up at the same place.

[The yelling's entertaining, at least.]

While it could work, I do not think we should just be pointing fingers at each other. We do not want a repeat of last week.

[He gently looks at Mielle. He doesn't want to outright mention her meltdown but like... it wasn't good!]

I doubt that it would work at all.

And that's a very good point, Harker-san. We should avoid doing the same thing as last time.

[how can someone make smiling feel so menacing?]