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

[asymptotes]

[ Shirtless is his natural state, and Drakkon is free of scratches or other similar injuries!

... His knuckles are, admittedly, lightly bruised, but. ]

I don't think my knuckles have been flawless since I had enough materials to make training dummies, but... no scratches.

[fuckingguy]

Brett, as you are the one checking... how old do those look?

[ he can't just sprint over and eyeball his knuckles, that would be weird!! ]

mods?

[inaclearing]

[Using his expert opinion as a guy who is really not an expert in this, how old do they look?]

[asymptotes]

[ It's tough to tell, like - Drakkon's hands are kind of Like This all the time? So yes, the damage is fresh, but it's usually fresh - and isn't terribly inconsistent with the idea of waking up and getting a couple drills in on some dummies instead of going out to hunt bodies - and you've never really seen him go out to hunt bodies anyway, so! ]

[inaclearing]

[Brett kinda shrugs.]

I don't know. They look fresh - but we aren't really looking for this kind of thing in the first place, are we? Not a lot of signs anyone got punched this time...unless I'm missing something.

[fuckingguy]

No. Not a lot of signs. But...

It is just, I have really tired of this shit where we don't push people, and then we just keep on doing this for ten hours.

[asymptotes]

Look, I don't want to run around in circles any more than anyone else here, I get it. But start throwing full accusations over little maybes and we waste a bunch of time anyway, you know? Either way, I'm always open to questions. Might not actually be a karate teacher, but it's true.