unknownseas | Sixth Trial

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Sixth Trial

[ After a time, as always, your investigation is interrupted by the Mayor's now-familiar voice, calling out to you over the loudspeakers. ]

And that's gonna be time. Pack it in, everyone, bring what you're gonna bring because it's trial time.

[ There are so many bathyspheres missing, you cannot help but notice, as you all pile into the station for your standard trip down to the trial room. Your number has dipped to about a third of its original size - a fact that becomes even more evident when you reach the circle of podiums at the bottom of New Rapture's ocean trench. ]

You all know why you're here. Someone killed Pillage Idiot, and it's your job to figure out who. This is your sixth one, I sure hope you have the procedure down by now.

[ Welcome to your sixth trial. ]

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Perhaps so. If he left the book nearer to the end like that, I'd imagine he planned on coming back, but he certainly would have known the risks by now. He always told me...

[...]

He always told me to go inside on high-danger nights. That I shouldn't be out.

...he'd say stuff like that to me, too.

And he was right.

[Its painful to say. He’d never had to tell her that. Not only was she capable of handling herself, but she also stayed put on thursday nights.

Now she wishes she hadn’t.]

He knew. But… someone actually bein able to take him didn’ seem so likely.

I'm surprised someone was, to be blunt.

Yeah. Me too.

In fact, rulin me out? There’s only one person here I’d think could.

......yeah?

We’re all thinkin the same thing.

[.....

Finally, like he doesn't really want to admit it:]

Yeah.

But we shouldn't jump to conclusions. There's the taser - that would make it a lot easier to win a fight.

You can say it. I know I am the most physically capable of those of us who are remaining.

…

You’re makin it harder, bein like that.

I have never been anything but straightforward.

...

I do not have any alibi for last night, admittedly, so I do not have any proof of my innocence other than my own word.

Were you in your room?

No, I would not have... save to throw everyone off my trail, perhaps. But I will confess I am not particularly accustomed to killing and then covering my tracks rather than simply... killing.