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 be hard to conceal something like this here. We don't really have any private spaces.

[canbebeautiful]

Someone said - his id was missing, right? The people in the same room wouldn't need to do that. The only reason you need a specific one is to get into a different room.

[windowsexplorer]

...I wish we'd thought of that before. He and Miss Sonia were in the same room.

[doppelanger]

[ Something about this seems to strike her. ]

Have we found it yet?

[canbebeautiful]

Nobody mentioned finding it as far as I remember.

[doppelanger]

Maybe the killer still is having it, then. It would be stupid.

[scratchitti]

It does limit our suspect pool a little. It'd have to be someone from the other dorm. We can do a pat down too, if someone's willing to feel everyone up.

[canbebeautiful]

. . . How about everyone empties their pockets first then we can have a pat down?

[mightdoriya]

That sounds like a good idea. [He's skeptical that the culprit would have kept his ID, but it's the best next step they can take at this point.]

[scratchitti]

[Neku seems to realize his implication and turns away, blushing almost as red as his ginger hair]

A...ah. Yeah.