Hostile Action Trial

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[As you all finish investigating, an electric chime rings out across the PA system.]

I believe that should be sufficient time for you all to prepare. Assistant, please escort everyone to the trial room.

[Penny emerges from the Security office again, head down, and slowly collects everyone; she leads you all to the east side of the common room, to the short hallway between dorms B1 and A2, that’s dead ended through your entire time here. As your group approaches, the wall seamlessly slides up to reveal a hidden doorway. Passing through leads to another short hallway and a small, round room, just big enough to hold all of you. Penny passes her ID over a small pad near the doorway, and it blinks green before the room lurches slightly beneath you; an elevator going down.]

[A short trip down leads you to a larger chamber, with a series of twenty-two podiums set up in a ring; in the center is a column of computer stations with large monitors, behind a set of thick metal beams with occasional faint flashes of energy arcing between them and a constant, low hum.]

Welcome to your first trial, Participants. You will use this time to determine which among your number killed the Legendary Bassist, and send them to justice. Failure to choose the correct culprit will have dire consequences for you all.

[Trial: commence.]

Comments

[mightdoriya]

I don't know, either. It was so hugely complicated...it seemed like way too much work to go to the trouble to put something together like that, much less to figure out how to lure someone into it without them wondering what you were doing. Even if the machine did enough to stun him, I don't think it was what killed him.

[aragona]

Obviously. [Rolls eyes at Izuku. Come on, kid.] They probably were aiming for full decapitation.

[mightdoriya]

[Hey now, he has a lot on his mind he's doing his best] Why use a machine like that, then? They should have known it would never have had enough power behind it to fully decapitate someone. The machine had already been set off so I'm not fully sure how it was meant to work, but gravity was the only force getting that arm to move, and it didn't have anything sharp attached.

[aragona]

Not sure. But the neck was hacked at more than once. It wasn't a clean cut.

[mightdoriya]

Do you think a knife was used for that? A lot of knives are missing, it sounds like.

[aragona]

That's the nearest slicing weapon we have on hand, yes.

[mightdoriya]

[He's quiet for a moment, then.] Did anyone actually end up finding any of these missing knives?