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

pocketcheck time!

[doppelanger]

Yes, [ she agrees, in response to what Veronica just said, ] these first.

[ And, with no further ado, Helena turns out her pockets! Except I'm going to respond to my own comment for that, because it's going to be a whole Thing. Time for everyone else to do the same! ]

[in4apounding]

[Penny's dress has pockets! But all she seems to be carrying is a ballpoint pen and her electronic ID.]

[clandestineideals]

[ Just a pen and his ID here! ]

[scratchitti]

[Neku does his as well. It's his ID, which he turns on so everyone can see it's his, a pen, and some gum from the vending machine]

[mightdoriya]

[Similarly, Izuku turns out his pockets. He only has his electronic ID and the pen he'd been using to write in his notebook.]

[doppelanger]

[ As mentioned before, Helena is wearing a leather jacket! Going through its various hiding places and her pants pockets produces, in addition to the sandwich stuff and butter knife:

-a spoon
-assorted sugar packets
-a whole ass banana
-her ID
-a pen

Thankfully, there is not a letter and photo from a sweet little girl who misses her mummy! And while it's all out there, she's going to peel open what's left of her sandwich and just kind of... sprinkle some sugar on it. ]

1/3

[windowsexplorer]

[Don't worry too much about where Meredith's pockets are as she empties them, setting everything next to the unused first aid kit from earlier. She's got a lot on her: her ID, a bunch of file folders, that weird crystal which she tries to kind of conceal under one of the folders so it's visible from the side but not from above, a burned scrap of paper, and...]

2/3

[windowsexplorer]

[...a second electronic ID.]

3/3

[windowsexplorer]

[Which has a silver case, so it's immediately obvious that it doesn't belong to Yaiba or any other Participant.]

[scratchitti]

...

What the hell is that?

[Neku almost had a heart attack seeing it... then it doesn't match. GDI]

[windowsexplorer]

It's a different electronic ID.

[a useful answer!]

[doppelanger]

[ HOLY SHIToh false alarm ]

Where did you find this?

Re: 3/3

[in4apounding]

...Is that from the-

[Sudden, worried glance up at that column of computers in the center of the room.]

-noooooowhere?

[canbebeautiful]

[Veronica pulls three pens, her own electronic id (which she briefly turns on to show everyone and verify) and, uh. The crust of a slice of bread? This morning was a little hectic.

She sets them all on top of the notebook she brought with her that she's always carrying.]

[deathroadtocanada]

[Kara pulls her pockets out, one by one. Aside from her ID, there's nothing else.]

[maxout]

[Electro has his electronic ID... which he's been keeping on his podium. And nothing else.

Yeah his insulated suit does not have pockets actually.]

[hyaku]

[Shigeo empties his pockets out, but they're completely empty. Not even his own ID is in them.]

[scratchitti]

... did you leave yours behind?

[hyaku]

....I forgot it in my room.

[The murder kind of you know.. distracted him a little bit.]

[scratchitti]

... that's fair.

[boxtrot]

[An ID, a pen, and his cigarette case. Nothing special here.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael has:

- His electronic ID
- One pocket square
- A pen and small notepad
- Some papers, one of which looks normal and several of which seem burnt?
- A big-ass charred robot of some sort, which was not in his pockets because he just sorta carried it in here at the start of this and set it down next to him

This is what happens when you do your looting immediately before a trial.]

[mockmods]

[As Michael places said charred-ass robot on his podium-]

Architect. Where did you find that?

[eudaimonikos]

Junk room. Neat stuff in there, kinda wish I'd dug around earlier.

[He says casually and with zero hesitation, because demons are fucking liars.]

[mockmods]

Hm. Interesting.

It's rare one gets to witness their own shell from the outside.