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

[hasallhismarbles]

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.

[tragikos]

Maybe he just got really lucky?

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

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

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.

[tragikos]

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

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

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

[tragikos]

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

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

That and the arm was severed much more cleanly than the damage done to the puppet.

[tragikos]

Which came first? The damage to the puppet or severing the arm?

If the damage to the puppet... maybe that's why the coffee pot broke? Wilkins was making coffee when he got attacked, and then the attacker didn't realize there was like an actual person and the person's arm was getting fucking attacked so he dropped the pot?

[clawhands]

There was blood in the spilled coffee, but I'm not sure if that was due to the fact that there was blood already on the ground beforehand or if it dripped onto the spilled coffee....

[Bad Cop groans in frustration, then pauses.]

If the coffee pot was dropped, wouldn't some coffee have spilled on the attacker?

[tragikos]

On their shoes at the least, right?

[clawhands]

Exactly.

[...]

I'm not getting down to check people's shoes. That's insulting.

[And also he might get crushed.]

[tragikos]

( mumbling to herself ) You are the right height...


( louder ) People could just kick their feet up. ( kicks her feet up onto the table to show her cute black converse with pink flowers and shoelaces. ) See? Mine are clean.

[clawhands]

[Bad Cop is clean. No blood or coffee on this lad.]

[tedioustrivium]

Oh, but my shoes are so much nicer on the ground.

[Someone cut this off so there isn't ten comments of his bullshit again.]

[windmage]

I'm not making a fool of myself doing that.

[also hes short and it'll look silly]

[startercar]

[Dennis is wearing shoes that look expensive. They are not. But they are clean!]

[masterbreaker]

[Just...plops himself onto the table for everyone to see. He's clean. ]

[umslay]

[The Magician is already standing on the table, but his shoes are clean]

[conditionally]

[ He doesn't really move, but it's easy to tell that they're clean. ]

[hasallhismarbles]

[These shoes are clean, indeed]

[neednoaccuser]

[WHAT ARE THOSE!!!

They're weirdly high-tech Wakanda "sneakers" is what they are. It's hard to tell if they're clean or not, given that they're black, but for McKayla who is standing next to him it's easier to tell they're dry and also decidedly not crusty.]

[hasallhismarbles]

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]

[tragikos]

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

[conditionally]

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

[hasallhismarbles]

...he would have, indeed.

[At least the puppet would be ashes]