legionofeclipse | FIRST TRIAL.

[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?

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Reasonably react to provocation one time and everyone assumes you're a murderer. Real classy, you degenerates.

It was Liv, by the way. I saw her.

You saw the murder?

When I found the scene, this idiot was already there.

So he did it and he's trying to blame you?

( thinking heavily )

I don't think he's strong enough to do it, though... But maybe?

When she returned to the scene.

That you were there first on?

No, that I was-- that she was-- god damn it, do I have to explain the concept of time moving forward to you?

I'm just saying. You were already there. Which sounds totally worse than her "returning to the scene" theory.

I don't think he's competent enough, no. But it's possible he's just. Very, very committed to the ruse.

Or he's dumb enough to just fall into murdering someone....

He did manage to kill the one person here who may not have been technically involved in this "recruitment exercise".

[She hasn't ruled him out entirely, but it seems unlikely.]

In all honesty, I think the cop lego dude guy is more right about the crocodile.

It takes a lot to rip someone's arm off without a knife.

The crocodile do relies on his strength a lot. Back when we woke up first here, his immediate action was to try to scratch a wall down.

[He shrugs]

So he does have quite the strength and he's also dimwitted enough.

Oh, simply because I’m strong?! Oh-ho, you people are so quick to discriminate against the non-humanoid!

(no subject)

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It is a possibility.

[He doesn't think Dennis did it, but it is certainly possible]

But he would have planted false clues or anything if he had planned to frame her from the start.

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Maybe he just got really lucky?

But Liv does seem competent enough to commit a murder like this.

I could have, if I'd had a mind to. Though I'd much rather have the living specimen to study than some shredded remains.

Plus, I don't think you're that messy. It was all jagged and stuff, right?

Except for the arm, yes. Honestly that seems to be the sticky wicket here.

Right? Like that weird guy just came out of nowhere and made the whole thing strange...

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Is her interest in our unfortunate victim's biology faked, then? I believe she would be less enthusiastic by now if she had killed the puppet and then had the time to think and make theories hours ago.

[Once the novelty of science wears down she would be less excitable, he believes]

With all her PhDs, too? It'd be covered way better than this.

I feel like he'd have attempted to burn the body right away, though, given how determined he was to do it.

...he would have, indeed.

[At least the puppet would be ashes]