FIRST TRIAL.

[eggmobile]

[Eventually, when you are all gathered, the elevator jerks. Not in some Rod Serling Theme Park ride manner, but much more creaky. The elevator glides upwards, incredibly far up, before coming to a stop at a room you’ve never seen before.]

[The room shares a similar aesthetic to the control center, each portion of the wall covered in television monitors. They all display a bright blue screen at the moment, save for twenty additional monitors hanging from the ceiling like chandeliers. Each of those display the face of the good Doctor Eggman.

The only furnishings in the room are a table and chairs - the table is excessively long enough to seat all of you at the moment. Every chair corresponds to a different room, and each is marked with a nameplate corresponding to the room’s occupant. The unoccupied rooms are unmarked save for numbers, with no nameplates at all. Wilkins’ empty chair bares both his name, and a very ominous coffee scent.

In front of each chair are very small microphones kept in stands, just in case you need to speak up, as well as keyboards built into the table.

Once you are all seated, Doctor Eggman speaks.]

Now that you’ve all gathered, here are the rules! You must discuss the crime, and once you believe you have figured out your culprit, you may input their name in the keyboard in front of you! Take all the time you need, of course.

Failure to vote will result in your execution, and the same will follow should you fail to identify the culprit! How does that sound to you all?

Comments

[neednoaccuser]

Who would even care about killing that guy? Seriously, he's like the least dangerous and most useful person here.

[umslay]

Are you saying that coffee-hoarding is the best skill any one of us have?

[He was weird, but not useful.]

It could be that he's one of the smallest targets. Easy for any of you humans to go after!

[clawhands]

The coffee pot did look as though it were dropped from a high point. That eliminates anyone too short to lift it.

[neednoaccuser]

I'm saying coffee is useful and he didn't give a shit as long as you drank it.

[clawhands]

Maybe whoever killed him thought that would be the perfect way to catch him off guard.

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

He was also a possibly unique scientific specimen.

[She's. Definitely got some remains squirreled away somewhere, to at least TRY studying later.]

And that coffee actually was quite good, however he managed to produce it.