Hostile Action Trial

[mockmods]

[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

HANDWRITING CHECK

[canbebeautiful]

Hey. Hey, listen up, everyone! We're gonna do a handwriting check because this? [Veronica waves around the note.] This is obviously forged.

[Please don't ask how she knows.]

So we're all going to write "hence I have henceforth decided" which doesn't even make sense down and figure out if it was Colonel Mustard in the dining room with a candlestick.

[scratchitti]

Yeah, good idea.

...please tell me people don't actually speak English like this.

[He writes the phrase and yeah it's not even close]

I still have the notebook we used at the meeting too if we need more comparisons, but not everyone used it.

[canbebeautiful]

I mean, that is what he sounded like at least.

[Veronica also writes the phrase, but it doesn't even remotely match. Her handwriting is fairly legible, but also full of exaggerated swashes. You know, like any good 80s-style font.]

[mightdoriya]

[A forged note, huh? Things just got a lot more interesting, all of a sudden...and by interesting he means stressful, because someone must have really wanted to both kill Yaiba and get off scott free if they went to that much trouble. He rips a sheet of paper from his notebook and writes the words down before passing it back to Veronica to look over. Izuku's handwriting isn't the best in the world and mostly legible only to himself in a lot of cases...but it doesn't match the note.]

[gangplankgalleon]

...how do you SPELL THAT?!

[in4apounding]

[...She should almost certainly ignore this, K. Rool has been nothing but a jerk to her. And yet-]

...Eich, ee, ehn, cee, ee, space, capital eye-

[gangplankgalleon]

HOW DO YOU SPELL EICH, WOMAN?!

[in4apounding]

It's the letter H!

[She is immediately regretting it.]

[gangplankgalleon]

WHAT IS AN H?!

[clandestineideals]

[ ... what is this nonsense. ]

[clandestineideals]

[ He'll nod and write down the words as described, and his handwriting doesn't match the note. ]

[aragona]

[Sonia makes a small noise.]

What, that note? Who would forge a message that long?

[clandestineideals]

The killer, apparently.

[aragona]

Which I'm not.

[canbebeautiful]

So give me a handwriting sample and clear your name.

[clandestineideals]

And I'm not saying that you are.

[ ... ]

But, doing this will help narrow down to who is; there really isn't a reason not to follow along.

[ Unless someone can't write but she didn't seem like a person who couldn't to him. ]

[aragona]

[Ugh.]

Fine. Give me something to write with.

[doppelanger]

[ Helena shrugs and writes! It is not a match. ]

[in4apounding]

[Does. Does she need to do this? She's doing this.]

[The handwriting is curly and loopy and dots the lowercase i with a little heart, and is not a match.]

[windowsexplorer]

Major Lime in the office with the baseball bat.

[Scribble scribble scribble. Meredith's handwriting is very neat, and when I say very neat I mean it looks like a damn font. All four hs are identical, etc. No match for the note, though.]

[boxtrot]

[Spy's glad that his hunch was correct, at least. His handwriting is elegant and neat, but not a match.]

[maxout]

[Electro's handwriting is... not the most neat, but it's legible, at least.

It's also not a match.]

[hyaku]

[Shigeo's handwriting is messy, but it doesn't match.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael's handwriting is quite neat, and also not a match.]

[deathroadtocanada]

[So, a thing about Androids.

They have a specific font built into them that they write in by default.

Needless to say, it doesn't match.]