Week 5 - Trial

[cartesio]

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

[silvertongueheir]

Indeed.

[quickpersuader]

...I think I'm okay with voting based on that.

Even if you don't confess to more, unless you can say someone else was there, that means you were the only one around to do something.

[robitussin]

...And then you slit her throat, because she couldn't stop you?

[silvertongueheir]

I found her in the park. I gave her the chance to defend herself.

[There's a pause, then he slides the left shoulder of his suit down slightly and rubs at it, revealing part of a bruise.]

Gerard is the only one who could have left tooth marks on her lance.

She slipped because of me.

[carbide]

[...]

And the adventurers were killed by monsters.

[silvertongueheir]

I made her fall. Would you like to see how?

[carbide]

An explanation will suffice.

[silvertongueheir]

[Well. He snaps his fingers in an odd way, and suddenly a shower of gold coins comes spilling forth from his hand, collecting on his podium. They look exactly like the one Natalie found.]

This is the inherited power of the Erkens family. I only meant to distract her, but one landed in the right place for her to step on it and slip.

[relieable]

[..............]

The gold...!

[silvertongueheir]

[A nod.] ...if you think they'll take it, you can offer it to the townspeople for the diner. There's some more in my room as well.

[relieable]

[he was going to keep that lump of gold for himself but]

...I doubt they'd take anything from us, anyway. [especially not from a murderer]

[silvertongueheir]

[A sigh] They do seem determined not to. [On the other hand, technically the townspeople left before seeing where the gold comes from?]