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

[sastruga]

Definitely. But I don't think we have any evidence of tools used for this. If nothing else... you'd expect there to have been tracks in the field.

[inaclearing]

[He chews on the end of his pen for a second, looking over his notes.]

I have here that there were smashed vegetables on his feet? It seems like he was really hurt by then, but...maybe he just...pulled free from the chipper himself and tried to run.

[visiblepattern]

That would help move him to the field... Did he fall and drag himself, then? In the way that one might when trying to get away from someone or something but unable to get up.

And then they would have stabbed him and removed the head afterwards. Does that sound plausible?

[inaclearing]

Maybe - he would have been bleeding a lot. Does...that make sense with how the tracks and the vegetables were? Whoever saw that?

[allatonce]

Not if you used a sheet or something, maybe. Sort of like how you're supposed to drag people if they're passed out.