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

[fuckingguy]

... It feels like it would just be way too much work for any one person, does it not?

Cw torture mention

[dullshooter]

Having the time to do all that to Dandy, and then set up an unnecessarily complex set of boobytraps to kill Undertaker? I think it leans damn near to impossible.

[fuckingguy]

And then to also clean themselves up... no, it is too much. I think we have one tall, ruthless person and one clever, very annoying person.

[dullshooter]

Where’s the annoying coming from?

[fuckingguy]

How else would you describe this string trap microwave fire extinguisher shit you guys were talking about?

[dullshooter]

[…]

Point taken.

[allatonce]

It's a Rube Goldberg Machine, which I think narrows down the pool of suspects considerably. They'd have to both be familiar with those and able to construct one.

[sastruga]

If Vholran didn't die last week I'd almost think it was him again.

Well, if nothing else the check gives us some idea of who could've carried Dandy around, but we need to find a way to narrow it down a little more...

[asymptotes]

[ a slight snort at the first part... but an inability to contribute otherwise on account of being a mod pc ]

[hotpaprika]

... well the undead have been proven to exist...

[sastruga]

...I really hope we don't get a Vholran zombie.

[allatonce]

I think the thing that points toward two people is less that and more...

[How does she say this without sounding sociopathic?]

... people who kill through complicated traps like whatever happened to Undertaker don't tend to be the same people who favor more, ah, hands-on methods like. Well.

[She holds up the sword again.]

[fuckingguy]

... Right, the sword. I almost forgot I was going to smell it.

[allatonce]

We had some other pressing issues.

[That's an understatement! She holds it out, though.]

mods...

[fuckingguy]

[ And he's going to take it and give it a sniff! Is this Dandy's weird metal blood? ]

[bathymetric]

[ It sure is! Please don't lick it. For your own sake, Nandor. ]

[hotpaprika]

[After Jonathan recovers from all of that.]

... Do you think they were two people working together or...

[fuckingguy]

Unlikely. I mean, what would connect them?

[hotpaprika]

The explosions, I suppose?

[allatonce]

Honestly, the use of explosives in both makes me kind of sus that they didn't at least notice each other? But I don't know if we know enough to fully declare that either way.

[hotpaprika]

I suppose it is possible that they were busy with their own schemes to pay them any mind?

[sastruga]

One of them, maybe.

But both?

[allatonce]

The ice cream parlor would take more time to set up so it's possible they were ships passing in the night or whatever the phrase is. Still sus.

[buriedstar]

Do we have an estimated time of death for either of them?

[sastruga]

...Maybe Aiba has an idea for Dandy? She examined him closely, right?