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

for the mods

[bootyhunter]

Hrrrrgh, that's it!

[Dandy, who is barely hanging onto the fragments of his sanity at this point, just yells a question straight into the air.]

Hey Mayor, is it points off if we ask ya about this stupid plasmid bullshit?

[bathymetric]

... I ain't grading you, Ass Man. They're my product, I'd be happy to sell you on 'em.

[bootyhunter]

If the effects of the plasmids are supposed to disappear after a while, why can we see still see them?

Do those duds work differently when you're dead?

[bathymetric]

Plasmids are based off of enzymes. The limited ones don't have stabilizing proteins that make the changes to your DNA permanent. Body flushes 'em out eventually. But for that to happen, body needs to be able to flush. No heartbeat or movement, the things'll stay on.

[hotpaprika]

... So if Nandor injected himself, would it simply stay in his system? Or if someone had no heartbeat but movement it would still flush itself out.

[He's not suspecting Nandor, but he's curious!]

[bathymetric]

Movement would flush it, yeah. Not all of you have running blood, after all.

[hotpaprika]

...

I dread to ask how Nandor was supposed to flush it.

[Where... where does it go]

[specialyellthing]

I’m sure somebody coulda helped him out, but we don’t need to worry about that, since he didn use any.

[bootyhunter]

Ew.

[He isn't gonna dignify the Mayor with a thank you! Certainly not.

Still, this confirms that there was no time bending or other multiverse fuckery afoot.]

That's all I've got for now.