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

[aragona]

It looked like the killer was putting in the entra effort to get it all off, but they didn't succeed. [A shrug.] They could have tried out different knives to see which ones worked the best.

[doppelanger]

Stupid. [ It's not directed at Sonia, just a comment! ] A knife for good steak is not a knife for bone.

[ Although, now that she's looking at her... ]

He was dead already. So, why exert?

[aragona]

Not all of us know that.

We should be here all day explaining why killers do things a certain way.

[doppelanger]

Mm.

How does a vampire killer do things? I would like to know how that is done.