Fourth Trial

[bathymetric]

[ After the evidence (and what a large batch of evidence it is, this time) has been gathered up, after actually patiently waiting a longer time than usual to make sure everything's been grabbed, the speakers over New Rapture crackle to life. ]

Time's up, everyone. You know where to go.

[ The lower number of bathyspheres, as you descend, is starting to become really notable, isn't it? The descent is the same as ever, lower and lower into the sea. The bioluminescence of those slugs on the ocean floor is almost brighter today, somehow, and some of them have even crawled up the cliff face around you as you pass them.

The dome approaches, slowly as ever, gleaming red in the darkness. The bathyspheres land in a row, doors opening one by one to reveal the familiar sight of the trial room, three more podiums now darkened. ]

Take your places, ladies and gentlemen. You've got a doozy of a situation to discuss. Ass Man and Silver Fox are dead. You know what happens if you can't figure out whodunnit.

[ Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

Cw suicidal ideation

[sastruga]

[Mafuyu is quiet. Eerily so, this time, just kind of... staring, as he makes that proclamation.]

...Jonathan?

[hotpaprika]

[There is a hesitation, remembering Obi's trial.]

... My apologies, I promise to remain silent for the rest of the trial and not make everything about me.

cw suicidal uh.... e... encouragement.....????? oh god I'm sorry

[sastruga]

...If you want to disappear so badly, don't make it someone else's responsibility.

[specialyellthing]

Mafuyu!

[sastruga]

...

[...]

...I'm not taking it back.

[specialyellthing]

I'm not makin' you, but don't go making more trouble right now. Just ignore him.

Cw suicidal discussion

[hotpaprika]

[...]

I do have a knife on me, if it will make everyone...

[howveryglib]

Jonathan I am putting you in a chokehold if you keep following this line of thought.

cw suicidal discussion

[sastruga]

...Shut up.

If this was about everyone else, you wouldn't even have said that.

cw continued

[allatonce]

You are not helping by suicide baiting him, Mafuyu!

cw suicidal discussion

[hotpaprika]

You told me to do it! I am simply stating my plans. Wouldn't it be better than making everyone endure a trial?

cw suicidal discussion continued

[sastruga]

What I'm telling you is not to make it everyone else's problem. What, are you going to pull out a knife in front of everyone?

You really just cannot stop making things about yourself for five seconds.

I mean... what the hell is this... I'm several years younger than you, and I'm handling this better? I'm not even an adult yet...

But people are talking to me, as if I'm the one who should know better than to say things to you--

[she's glaring but

boy she looks tired]

How stupid is that.

[fuckingguy]

Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?!

[allatonce]

Jonathan, snap the fuck out of it! I will sit on your pasty white ass if you're gonna be a moron.

[dullshooter]

Don’t make me go full Thunderwing on you, Jonathan.

[pairtner]

Jonathan, are you trying to turn this trial into a pity party for yourself?!

[hotpaprika]

Aren't you proving my point by saying I'm doing this to throw a pity party?

[pairtner]

Two people are dead, Jonathan! This is no time for you. It's not that people don't sympathize with you and your issues, but you cannot continue derailing everything so your feelings of inadequacy can be addressed!

[fuckingguy]

Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?!

[specialyellthing]

[AND SHES COMIN OVER AND.... immediately trying to wrestle his arms back.]

Hand it over!

[hotpaprika]

[Jonathan flails, absolutely overpowered by Zinda.]

You are all proving my point! I am no more than a burden than everyone! I am simply telling you to make it easier for when I die!

[specialyellthing]

I don't care! Shut up, and give me the damn knife.

[onemillion]

Will you stop this?

[So uh. Fun fact! Rossiu has been really not pleased with this line of discussion since the first time Jonathan brought it up, and this has just snapped him from "doing his best to keep his emotions in check" to "really pissed off", so here we are.]

Two people are dead, Jonathan, and we are in the midst of attempting to determine what happened. Tommy gave you some perfectly sound advice and if you insist on refusing to listen, then I would kindly ask that you shut up and stop distracting us.

[daimakaicho]

[ Her pupils go to slits. ]

Someone knock him out, please.

[buriedstar]

[ Everyone else seems to have this handled so he's just watching all this with a terrible smirk on his face. ]