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

[tedioustrivium]

And honestly, where did that puppet get off, pushing his drivel onto you. You're better than that.

[gangplankgalleon]

Exactly! I won’t stand for any interloper who dares to attack me!

[tedioustrivium]

Of course not! He was a fiend and a loser. Not to mention a nuisance. Whoever killed him is a handsome, wonderful genius.

[gangplankgalleon]

Well, I wouldn’t go that far. There’s a limit to praise, you know!

[tedioustrivium]

My old friend the Demon of Insincerity would say that praise is a delightful way to spend your time. What sort of [ugh] words would you use to describe this murdering fellow?

[gangplankgalleon]

I’m sure they’re hardly even a murderer! Just a suspicion, mind you.

[tedioustrivium]

Ah, perhaps an innocent acting in self-defense, brutalized by the horrible coffee antics of a tiny devil creature.

[gangplankgalleon]

One could hardly even get food for themselves without being harassed!

[tedioustrivium]

Oh, the terror! Oh the inhumanity of it all! Are we supposed to starve, beguiled and thwarted by the insane ramblings of a creature demanding the worship of a false god and a false religion? Doesn't he know there's a king to pledge loyalty to?! How long would we have had to submit to his torture?!

[gangplankgalleon]

Precisely! That cultist nonsense is all well and whatever, but. But not so much so that it warrants an attempt at my life!

[tedioustrivium]

He was a danger to all of us. His obsession was going to kill someone. Kill you. Something had to be done.

[gangplankgalleon]

I WAS ATTACKED FROM BEHIND, OF COURSE I WAS GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

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[tedioustrivium]

Yes! YES! And you've earned your just reward for it! The rest and relaxation you deserve!

[tedioustrivium]

[He hands him a yo-yo.]

Come on! Let's spend a few hours learning tricks!

[Just in case... you forgot who this was........]

[gangplankgalleon]

...what am I supposed to do with THIS?!

[tedioustrivium]

Well, you put it on your claw and bounce it up and down.

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

[welp]

[she's gonna need a really stiff drink after having to see all that actually work]

[tedioustrivium]

[Let's be real, he'd probably be like "I know, right? Weird shit."]

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

[Honestly that might make it worse.]