Sixth Trial

[bathymetric]

[ 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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Voting Time

[bathymetric]

[ Not long after Forrest's account of events, the Mayor speaks up. ]

Sounds to me like you have your answer. Money where your mouths are, citizens: time to vote who killed Pillage Idiot. You're used to this part by now, right?

[visiblepattern]

[........................]

>Forrest

[onemillion]

[No hesitation. If he hesitates, he's going to freeze up. He can't afford to do that - not after coming this far.

Once more. It's his life against Forrest's, after all.]

>Forrest

[capreelcious]

> Forrest

[howveryglib]

[SHIT THERE ARE PEOPLE WATCHING DON'T BREAK DOWN DON'T BREAK DOWN DON'T BREAK DOWN.]

>Forrest

[DON'T BREAK DOWN DON'T BREAK DOWN DON'T BREAK DOWN...]

cw: suicidal ideation?

[inaclearing]

[..........]

> Forrest

I wish you'd come to talk to me instead.

[It would've been a lot easier.]

[visiblepattern]

[...Brett.]

...You know why I couldn't do that.

[inaclearing]

I don't think I do.

[But he doesn't seem inclined to continue that conversation. It hardly matters now.]