Week 4 - Trial

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Week 4: Trial

It's dawn when the Sergeant calls everyone to the courtroom. Despite the early hour, the tribunes of the room are as full as the last two times, sleepy townspeople glaring and looking at the visitors with distrust. The Sergeant told everyone to get to their spots. Anyone who looks behind them, will see the bailiffs carrying Sting Eucliffe away, who is trying to resist them but doesn't seem to have enough strength to do that well.

"Don't worry about him. That guy ate a lot of ice and frost for reasons I don't understand, and now he has a very bad cold. I don't want him making everyone in this room sick, so he's excused. No, that's not a hint all of you should get sick to avoid these trials."

There are more podiums draped in black now. Clarisse, Eric Lecarde, and Jughead Jones have joined the dead, and their podiums look lonely without their occupants.

With a twirl of the gavel, the Sergeant recites:

"Today the trial will focus on solving the murder of..."

He takes a PDA out of his pocket, and holds it in the air. The PDA's text-to-voice software says: 'Forsythe'

"...Pendleton Jones the Third. The circumstances need no introduction, we all are aware of them. Here are your suspects"

            
Once everyone had a moment to see the faces in the photos, the Sergeant adds:

"By the way, there are two separate culprits today. Yes, two of these five people directly caused Jughead's death. When it's time to vote, remember to vote for two different people."

Let the trial begin.

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Comments

[marmoron]

Kino. You know guns and you know how to cook. What were you doing?

[quickpersuader]

[Oh... That's right. The burger.]

The culprit used a cookbook, didn't they?

[marmoron]

And you don't use cookbooks?

[That your defense here....]

[quickpersuader]

No.

[That is her defense here.]

They're too heavy to carry with me on the road, so I just wing it. Besides, to make a burger, all you need to do is grill the meat and then add cheese, right?

I definitely wouldn't go looking for a cookbook just for something like that.

[Kino does not, in fact, use a cookbook for things she should.]

[marmoron]

but if culprit 1 was trying specifically to recreate a recipe from the diner so that Jughead would eat the burger without giving it a second thought that would provide at least one incentive to start using a cookbook.

[quickpersuader]

[Kino actually pauses to think about that.]

...I guess someone would.

[With the tone of a person who did not consider that.]

[marmoron]

[If he hadn't seen Kino's acting at the fire station, this might be easier to accept at face value.]

You did also express an interest in immortality so you could travel more.

[quickpersuader]

[A nod.]

I did. But like I said, I prefer to minimize the deaths I cause.

I've accepted that I could die at any time. I try to avoid it, but that's just how life is.

[marmoron]

Having a preference doesn't mean things work out that way.

[A beat.]

You also said you were familiar with both of those poisons.

[quickpersuader]

I know that if I eat or drink something with those in them, I would die.

[So yes, for given amounts of familiarity.]