Week 5 - Trial

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Week 5: Trial

      

Last time it was at dawn. Now it's at sunset. The Sergeant gave everyone plenty of time to investigate and gather evidence, and now that everyone entered the courtroom, he slammed his gavel.

"I can sense a few of you are feeling rather hostile. Remember you're in a courtroom, and you're being watched by everyone in town"

People's opinions of the visitors are already very low, but there's no need to feed them further with a brawl in the courtroom -- or so the Sergeant thinks. There are more podiums draped in black now. Five more people died, seventeen people are alive. How many will be left once the trial is over?

"This time we have three victims in total. Millium Orion, Cian Reikado, and Azura were the unfortunate victims last night, and now you shall debate and decide who is responsible for this.

These are your suspects. Vote for as many as you think are responsible for these crimes"

            

Let the trial begin.

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Comments

[marmoron]

I didn't go for the motive.

[Tone is firm on that one; he's not letting you walk away with a warped perspective here.]

So it doesn't really matter who I would have considered, does it?

[quickpersuader]

Think of it as a hypothetical question. I'm asking everyone else here the same thing, and it sounds like everyone thought about someone else.

We still don't know how many people the Sergeant will take this time. If you fight questioning every step of the way, people might default to voting for you because they either don't believe you, or were convinced by everyone else's answers instead.

[marmoron]

[Frowning.]

I already told Natalie.

[quickpersuader]

[Nodding.]

That's fair, then.

[marmoron]

Look, Kino.

[And here he's just going to be blunt.]

All of us are claiming we were in our rooms, conveniently nowhere near either crime scene. All of us were at least intrigued by the motive' We're not going to figure out who murdered Azura, Cian and Millium by questioning people's intents.

Right now we're looking for at least one person who was strong enough to overpower Lammy. [Woops sorry, Cian he's leaving you out of this for what he thinks are self explanatory reason....] and might have had a reason to want either Azura or Millium dead. They both had blue hair. It's possible the culprit mistakenly killed one of them.

[quickpersuader]

...So you think that the culprit killed one first and then went to kill the other one they actually intended to target?

[marmoron]

I don't know for sure. We have to work out if this was one killer or more.

If one person was responsible for all of this, then what I just said seems likely, doesn't it? But if there were two culprits, then it's likely one of them went for Azura and the other attacked Millium and Cian.

But either way we're looking for someone who had the ability to overpower Lammy. [And in afterthought.] And can forge handwriting.

[Cuz he didn't write that goddamn note, etc.]

[quickpersuader]

That's a lot of what-ifs.

[It needs to be pointed out.]

But... I don't want to let the killer, or killers, get away with this either. So I'll consider the possibility during examinations and questioning.

[She did teach Millium how to defend herself for a reason. It's really a shame it didn't come in handy...]

[marmoron]

Are you just going to make everyone do another strip search or something.

[Cuz this is what Kino does isn't it. God.]

There was a lot of paint involved wasn't there? Checking everyone for paint doesn't sound like a bad idea.

[quickpersuader]

If we have to.

[It's on the table?]

If there's paint, Natalie will probably find it when she checks for concealer.