mockweek | Hostile Action Trial

[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.]

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halt_and_catch_fire

THIS HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH.

[As Neku and Sonia and Michael prod at the Researcher, the monitors on the central column light up, as do the walls all around the trial room, revealing themselves as brightly lit screens.]

[A series of pixilated LED faces appear, one to each screen, with a cheery computerized tune.]

I was once called Hodgepode, but I have left that identity behind. I am the Researcher.

You have determined the guilt of the Damaged, all else is irrelevant. ENTER YOUR VOTES NOW.

[All around the ceiling, the nozzles poking down spark to life with miniature pilot lights at the tips.]

[Vote, y/n?]

scratchitti

... shit.

Guys, if someone else is counted as Participant we might have another voting option-!

[Or would it still be counted as wrong? He's not sure. And he's not gonna vote for Penny but he'll HAPPILY vote for Hodgepode.]

...especially now that we know your name...

My name is not relevant. Enter the title of the guilty party. Now.

thisass

So for clarity's sake, seeing as I've spent my whole life with a really inconvenient death wish and don't plan to stop now... your title would be The Researcher, then?

Enter your vote.

(no subject)

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deathroadtocanada

[...hmm.]

He did murder a person.

Edited Date: 2018-12-09 06:20 am (UTC)

He did. Patches. And if we wanna get technical he caused Yaiba's death too just by bringing us here.

canbebeautiful

Well, according to him this whole building is his body so anything that happened in it would be his fault.

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thisass - Date: 2018-12-09 06:31 am (UTC) - Expand

And his creator, this Miller person, as well.

scratchitti - Date: 2018-12-09 06:24 am (UTC) - Expand

eudaimonikos

Hodgepodge Miller, then.

No, I think it's just Hodgepodge. Most evil computers go by mononyms.

Shut up, he doesn't like Miller.

[we're just here to irritate the mastermind, Veronica]

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in4apounding

Wouldn't the full name be Hodgepodge "Your Learning Pal" Miller? Or would it be Hodgepodge Miller, Your Learning Pal?

The second one, definitely.

[PENNY GETS IT]

hyaku

[...fuck it. Shigeo is pissed and he's not scared of what this robot has up his sleeve.

So he just puts his vote in as everything he's heard of:

The Researcher, Hodgepodge Hodgepodge "Your Learning Pal" Miller.]

You're guilty.

...well, so much for waiting.

[Neku is closer to the extra podium so he trots over and put Hodgepode's name in there before going to his own

maybe if he's lucky that'll count and hodgepode will be taken down with them if they're wrong. Or it's been Penny the whole time and he's killed a nice robot girl. Oh well, yolo]

[Looks at Shiego. Looks up at the walls and central column.]

[Heck it.]

[Penny steps up to a podium.]

>RESEARCHER

I'm still not actually sure who Patches was but YOU'RE A JERK.