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

[onemillion]

Agreed. I'm not sure what the point of it was.

[Yes, some parts of this had to be done in order to actually kill Misfire, but like??? C'mon???]

[allatonce]

I'd personally just say that was practical. Removing a robot's head is pretty normal to ensure that they're "dead."

[onemillion]

Why throw it in the lake, then? Not to mention whatever it was they did to his arm.

[specialyellthing]

That’s the part that just seems disrespectful.

[onemillion]

Exactly. It was entirely unnecessary.

[allatonce]

You usually have to separate the head from the body so a robot can't self repair—which I'd normally say was a "power" but in this case it might have been a "biological" function like Nandor's blood drinking. I assume the arm was to weaken him.

[onemillion]

To prevent him from being able to fight back while they were... removing his head. I suppose I can understand that.

[He doesn't like it, but... yeah, maybe it was done for practicality.]