unknownseas | FOURTH TRIAL

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trial,
week 5

FOURTH TRIAL

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. ]

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Yeah, and would either of you have blinked if I didn't know what the hell this thing was, or how it worked?

I think Ema showed that stuff to everyone, she was so excited about having it.

But Therion's got a point. He only learned a few days ago, and he rarely tells anyone anything.

Okay, in that case: shouldn't he have asked us how to use it? It's weird either way, honestly.

I'm not saying it isn't him for sure. It could well be. But is he the only one? It doesn't look like that to me.

Fair. Birkin hates everyone, so he's just as suspicious.

Oh, that's not true.

[He doesn't hate EVERYONE! Everyone here. She thinks?]

Edited 2020-05-09 18:56 (UTC)

...Hating and wanting to get out of here alive are two different things.

[ Tiny Birkin defense(?) squad. ]

All I'm saying is between the two of them, I'd believe he'd put a body in a shark tank before Therion. For science.

Since when did we narrow it down to two people, though? That's... I'm not comfortable doing that. Not because I like both of them, before anyone says that...but because I don't want to jump to conclusions.

Before we do anything else... I think we need to determine for sure if the two murders were connected.

Someone mentioned before that one of the victims could've come in towards the end of the other's murder. If that's the case, then we can assume both murders are connected.

Edited 2020-05-09 19:06 (UTC)

If that's the case. Is there anything that'd point otherwise? I can't see anything...but that's why it's important to examine all the angles.

It is. We can probably even start somewhere simple:

The aquarium and museum are not far from each other. If the locations were more spread out, I figured it'd be more likely that the crime scenes weren't related, but they're not.

That'd make it fairly easy for either of our victims like to see something they shouldn't have, whether it was the crime scene or someone walking out from it.

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nothingcanstop - 2020-05-09 19:51 (UTC) - Expand

Please keep going with the baseless conjecture. I am right here.

It's alright.

[It's not like there's any evidence pointing towards him, other than people not seeming to like him.]

You literally said you have sharks in your lab. Why would you have lab sharks if not for science?

I can play this game too - how many people here knew that the damn sharks wouldn't go after a corpse and would decide to throw in a bunch of bleeding fish? Most would assume Ema was bloody enough, throw her in and leave it at that.

Either come up with a really good reason for why I did this that isn't "my bosses were weird people" and "I'm kind of an asshole" or knock it off.

If you just threw the body in there they'd probably ignore it. At that point, the obvious answer is more blood, which is like the first thing you learn from Shark Week.

Right now that is not why we are suspicious of Therion.

[She hates thieves, too, but c'mon.]

Aw, come on. Tell me how you really feel.

[He's been pretty silent, and lost in thought.]