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

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?

[windowsexplorer]

Somewhere.

[glance toward the Computing Tower]

Re: 3/3

[in4apounding]

...Is that from the-

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

-noooooowhere?

[deathroadtocanada]

...Penny?

[You okay there, child.]

[in4apounding]

It's probably not important. [hic]

[She gives what she really hopes is a significant glance in the direction of the central column again. The eseacher-Ray is istening-lay, in other words.]

[deathroadtocanada]

[...Huh. She's never seen an Android hiccup.]

I think anything could be important in this case.

[But she notices Penny looking very nervously at that column, and it gets her software going.]

But... we can look elsewhere then.

[windowsexplorer]

[Meredith nods.]

It's from a place.

[in4apounding]

I see.

[To her credit, she manages to not do a very obvious knowing wink.]

[But she does reach over and tap the screen a little? It lights up with a big, fancy 'M' emblem, and a small key icon, but otherwise does nothing.]

...Hm.

[windowsexplorer]

Mmm.

[That's what the M stands for, obviously.]