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]

Well, either someone brought it down here out of habit and then forgot about it- or some lingering fragment of the puppet's power is still manifesting coffee to torment the killer.

[It's absolutely the first one, but the latter is too entertaining.]

[gangplankgalleon]

CURSED!

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

Well! Even if that weren't impossible, the good news is it likely would only care about tormenting the culprit.

[gangplankgalleon]

...I suppose that is how the damned things work, isn’t it.

[windmage]

Indeed it is. Spirits can be quite vengeful if they were taken from this world before their time. They'll haunt others for the rest of eternity, or until their killer takes responsibility for their actions.

[neednoaccuser]

Are you saying we could get a Ouija board out and solve this case by asking the coffee ghost who killed him?

[I'm Helping.]

[gangplankgalleon]

THE LUIGI BOARD WILL NOT HELP US!

[windmage]

[at least someone here is being useful!!]

... I assume you are speaking of a device that will allow us to contact the other realm. In which case, yes, that could be of use here.

[we're all gonna die because we keep derailing this trial with more bullshit]

[neednoaccuser]

Anybody got a piece of paper? I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

[LET'S! SUMMON! A! GHOST!]

[windmage]

[There is paper on the table, which Vaati is for once being helpful at this trial by sliding it across the table to you.

LET'S! SUMMON! A! GHOST???]

[tedioustrivium]

[The Trivium, somehow, looks like he's gonna cry tears of joy.]

What a beautiful waste of time this day is....

MOD

[neednoaccuser]

[Nice. We'll pretend he had a pen and scribbles out a Ouija board, tearing off a corner to make a planchette.]

Yo, Wilkins! You there?

[legionofmods]

[The ouija board will spell out the following:

W I L K I N S]

[neednoaccuser]

[. . . Okay cool, uh. He literally was not expecting that to work.]

Cool, cool. Hey, who murdered you? Was it the crocodile dude?

[He doesn't have Time for this.]

[legionofmods]

[W I L K I N S]

[neednoaccuser]

[Oh. It's like that, huh?]

Are you gonna say anything but that?

[legionofmods]

[W I L K I N S]

[neednoaccuser]

[Cool. Ok.]

Yeah, yeah. I get it. Gotta use quality shit for quality results. Ok, bye.

[legionofmods]

[W I L K I N S]

[windmage]

[uh what]

... As in the puppet killing themselves, or as in the brand of drink that keeps getting brought up in this trial?

[tedioustrivium]

DO A FLIP.

[legionofmods]

[The ouija board flips off the table.]

[windmage]

[At first, Vaati was going to make a rude comment on how shitty this ouija board turned out to be by appearances, but never mind, it's working??]

That was much quicker than I thought it would be.

[masterbreaker]

We're gonna summon his ghost?

[ You know that Pikachu meme? That's... That's Rex right now]

[windmage]

[no but listen the latter could absolutely happen in zelda universe, probably]

Given how much time and energy it spent peddling it's devil elixer, I would not be shocked to learn that it can do that.