SECOND TRIAL

[bathymetric]

Time's up, boys and girls. Please gather up your evidence and make your way to the vault door.

[ The process of heading to the elevator and crowding in remains the same as last week - Angel leads you all to the elevator car, then stays behind as you make your slow descent to the dome below. You might not even notice if you aren't paying attention, but... the cart is already less crowded than it was last week. You certainly won't be able to avoid noticing it if your numbers dwindle too much further than this.

When the doors open on the trial room, it's just as bleak a place as last week. ]

Take your places, won't you? And this time, you all know what's at stake. No more... funny business.

[The number of podiums displaying that red light is higher now - Damien, Lif, and Piers are all represented by blank spots now, no tasteful covers or anything normal to mark their passing, just a red glow and a gap in your number.

Cheery!

The screens raise up to the ceiling to give you all room to see, and the Professor's final words before the trial begins ring out: ]

Find the killer, leave alive. And killer? Try a little harder to stop them from doing that than the last one in your shoes. Call out for me if you require anything.

[ Welcome to your second trial. ]

Comments

[emberserker]

If you can't bruise, who's to say a zombie or whatever it is did this can?

[hardnosed]

Can someone just say what it is?

[lovelikeyou]

When a human gets hit, their skin turns blue-ish purple sometimes, even if they don't bleed. It's because they're bleeding underneath, I believe.

[kinda glancing towards the actual humans there but]

[reallyhatesharks]

Something like that, yeah.

[hardnosed]

[ hmm, kinda weird that Future Rose clearly had exactly what she's describing right now after Jasper head-butted her!! welp time to never think about it again ]

[lovelikeyou]

Oh - I don't know. Can they?

[She's kinda looking to Kirei, apparent vampire expert, on that one.]

[blackmass]

I don't know everything about every imaginable sort of vampire across worlds. Ordinarily, one's wounds would heal too quickly for such a thing. But I see no harm in being sure.

[fivestagegod]

Going to chime in by repeating that I'm pretty sure my world's undead are irrelevant, but they can bleed. No idea if they bruise, though, for reasons that are actually pretty repulsive.