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

[mightdoriya]

So...you're saying that he might have made that machine himself to use on someone. The only other option is that the note wasn't forged at all, and that he built it to use on himself, but...I feel like that might be a stretch given what we know.

cw: suicide

[canbebeautiful]

Well, if he built it, it wasn't to use on himself because as much of a, uh. Theatrical personality as he had, I feel like there's easier ways to off yourself and still have it be "cool" or whatever ye was concerned with according to the note. So who was it intended for?

[scratchitti]

It's weird... if they were planning to get one of us putting it right outside the dorms would be the smartest.

Where was it set up? I never actually saw it.

[mightdoriya]

It wasn't far from the body. It was down the hallway where the security office and dining area are.

[scratchitti]

Security room... wait. Could Penny have been the target?