THIRD TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[specialyellthing]

I remember someone else sayin they might...

[fuckingguy]

... I thought better of it. Mostly down to you, actually.

[hotpaprika]

Nandor, did you not tell me not to use them on myself?

[What the fuck he got to use them but he couldn't???]

[fuckingguy]

Yes, because you do not know how to move things around or set shit on fire with your mind, both of which I have been doing for seven centuries! I just thought, you know, it might help if someone used to having powers was messing with them instead of a bunch of amateurs.

But I did not end up using anything, so, a moot point. Zinda was right.

[hotpaprika]

I stated that I wanted the Target Dummy one...

[How could that have hurt people Nandor??? People talking to his dummy thinking it was the real thing?]

[fuckingguy]

And I told you, wait and see if it is safe for sure!

... Which was, now that I am thinking about it, not leaving you much of a window to take them, but, hindsight.

[specialyellthing]

[That earns him a big smile.]

More people should listen to me more often.

I don't think it was a mistake, either. You bein' involved could have just made this whole thing messier.

[fuckingguy]

... Possible. [ no pal it definitely would have ] I will have to keep the listening in mind for the future.

[ NANDOR LISTENING TO A PARTNER..... THE GREATEST JOKE OF ALL......... ]