Fifth Trial

[bathymetric]

[ There's a long while of examination before the Mayor speaks up. There's plenty of evidence to pick up yet again this week, after all. ]

Annnd that's going to do it. Wrap it up and head to the bathyspheres, kids, you've got some business to attend to.

[ The bathyspheres take you all down, down, into the now-familiar dome below the city. The similarly familiar red glow persists until the lights properly turn on - the projection of Fontaine's silhouette is gone, of course, replaced by that same flickering "please stand by" message. But your mayor's voice is still the one that speaks over the increasingly empty circle of podiums. ]

If you somehow need a reminder of why you're here, three of you are dead. Get away with it, killer or killers, and the execution room gets to really work overtime today. But I guess if you wanna live, you should find who murdered three people. Could be important for you guys.

[ Welcome to your fifth trial. ]

Comments

[fuckingguy]

So Hild was in there at some point. But why take this thing? She did not even use it to fight her attacker.

[ connect the dots, Brett, he sure as fuck won't be! ]

[inaclearing]

It...

[He stares at it for a moment before deciding to complete the thought.]

It looks like you could use it to poke holes. Like...

[honeyedtea]

Like she was the one attempting to frame Nandor.

[fuckingguy]

... The fuck did I ever do to her?!

[inaclearing]

It wasn't even well done...shouldn't she have known better?

[fuckingguy]

[ thanks for pointing this out pal he would have taken at least five more minutes to get there ]

She did seem more intelligent than that, it is true.

[honeyedtea]

So either it wasn't Hild, or she was just stupider than she looked.

[fuckingguy]

Her body was moved after death. It is possible that whoever killed her put this thing in her hand afterwards, when they were positioning her...

[visiblepattern]

Either way, we can certainly say the incidents are connected - either Hild killed Jonathan before being murdered herself, or the same person killed them both.

[visiblepattern]

It may not have been personal... It doesn't matter who we vote for as long as we vote incorrectly.

[fuckingguy]

[ he makes a dissatisfied grunting noise that is definitely meant to convey the spirit of "I GUESS" ]

[specialyellthing]

[Zinda, who has opted to stand by Nandor instead of on her island, pats his shoulder.]

Well, that’s not nice.