unknownseas | FOURTH TRIAL

Entry tags:

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. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

So can you stop making references that half of us don't understand like it proves some kind of point?

You don't stop sounding smug when you're not proving a point.

You're avoiding the point.

You can't say that this is something we all would know because we would have learned it from an obvious source, when most of us don't know what that source is.

Okay, fine: any book you read about sharks will tell you they sense blood. Anyone who's ever interacted with an animal will tell you they don't generally attack without reason.

Which is my defense, actually. You've all seen my title: why the fuck would I go near a shark tank?