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

[windowsexplorer]

It would fit his archetype. Spies have to be good at improvising.

[I was about to apologize for her but that actually ended up making sense.]

[doppelanger]

And forgeries. It's very interesting.

[boxtrot]

Are you done making baseless claims based on me enjoying a cigarette?

[doppelanger]

Many children are here. Many creations of man, devils, unnatural things that cannot smoke cigarettes. I'm not done.

[boxtrot]

... How dramatic.

If you're so concerned, here- [He hands her an unlit cigarette from his case.] You can compare the brands.

howdy mods, what in tarnation

[doppelanger]

Just curious.

[ While Shinso is the one who actually found literally any non-knife evidence in the kitchen and she'll pass it over to him if so asked, it's safe to assume that Helena also gave the counters a pretty decent once-over! What's the verdict on the cigarettes? ]

[mockmods]

[Spy's cigarettes are not the same brand as those in the kitchen.]

[doppelanger]

These are not same brand.

Thank you, [ she adds, passing the cigarette back, because we're all very civil here. ] Do you know much of smoking? The box was there too.

[boxtrot]

Merci.

I know a fair amount; I could recognize brands, tell if they are cheap or expensive... May I see the box?

[doppelanger]

I took pictures of this also.

[ And she will, in fact, indicate where in their weird casefile picture cloud the relevant images are, so he can, in fact, look at this photograph
(every time i do it makes me laugh
how'd these knives get so red
and who the hell chopped off yaiba's head)
and determine if there is anything to be noted about the cigarettes or the box they came in! ]

[mockmods]

[They appear to be bog standard cigarettes, albeit in very loud, dramatic packaging.]

[boxtrot]

Hm. Are we sure these didn't belong to the victim, perhaps? Very extravagant packaging design- a good fit for him.

[doppelanger]

Did the beast Yaiba smoke? If he was making his knife wheel in the kitchen, maybe he had cigarette there too. There's no blood.