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]

It would make it go easier.

[But she will go ahead and check what's up here, since she came over. Is it his ankle or...?]

[asymptotes]

Hm. Maybe.

[ His ankle is fine - it seems like there might be something in his shoe? ]

[sastruga]

...Could you remove your shoe?

...Please.

[She's even being polite for you, Drakkon.]

[asymptotes]

[ He sighs, and does so.

Turns it over.

A small aquarium substrate pebble drops out. ]

[allatonce]

....... Did you seriously just keep that in there to remind you of your sins or something? Dude.

[asymptotes]

Do I look Catholic to you, Joy?

[ And Yet. ]

[capreelcious]

...You wanna explain what that pebble's doin there?

[asymptotes]

[ No but like now it's a whole THING so ]

[sastruga]

...I see.

Thank you for your cooperation.

[asymptotes]

... Yeah.

[ :( ]