FOURTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

Alright, that's quite enough time. Move along towards the trial, if you would all be so kind. You know what's coming.

[ It's routine by now - go to the vault door, get let into the elevator by Angel, head down to the trial room... it's hard not to notice the losses on the ride down by now, though. Your numbers are starting to really dwindle, even if you're often spread out enough not to notice as much normally. The trial room and its podiums, too, seem more than ready and willing to remind you of the same. The red glow of the empty spaces is constant, potentially unnerving. ]

Remember that as there are two victims to consider, up to two votes may be counted at the end of proceedings. As always, I am but a direct address away, however rude you choose to make it.

Find the party or parties responsible for the deaths of your comrades. And to those parties: Good luck.

[ The screens rise!

Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

[ladygeryon]

There was no blood on the statue, but that doesn't mean she couldn't have bumped or brushed it during the struggle.

[Just that she probably wasn't ironically beaten with it.]

[bolderfell]

Does mean it probably didn't fall on her, though. Right? Especially if there weren't other heavy marks on her.

[mouflon]

There wasn't any sign she'd been hit by it when I checked her back. If I had to guess, I'd say it was knocked over, and then she fell on the cracked marble later.

[bolderfell]

Or she was already down when the statue fell, and then she was moved onto her back.

[ladygeryon]

I was thinking she might have backed into it at some point and made it fall then, before moving away.

[ladygeryon]

Yeah, there'd definitely have been bruises if that happened. And it didn't look like it'd been moved from that spot.

[bolderfell]

Then for Shelley to have dust on her back, the statue either fell behind her, or she was face-down and it fell near where she lay. ...I think, anyway.