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

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

Hm. Possibly.

[....this is not stopping her from taking another sip of coffee, by the by.]

At least a few of us have been drinking it for two weeks without any apparent ill effect, though.

[neednoaccuser]

Could be a hive mind thing. Chitauri are like that - you kill the source, yhr ehole thing dies.

[Wilkins was going to mind control us all, is the implication he's making.]

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

Regardless, we should probably keep an eye on everyone to see if there's any undue obsession with caffeination, after this.

[neednoaccuser]

. . . Does it count as dying if the thing just chooses a new host? Wouldn't that make this whole thing pointless?

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

...That's definitely fertile discussion for a philosophical debate we likely don't have time for. And either way, I doubt Dr. Eggman possesses or cares about the subtleties needed to make the distinction.

[neednoaccuser]

Yeah, fair. This whole thing's a farce anyway.