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Trial I

The opera house doesn't seem to have gotten any changes. There are no lights on the windows, the lobby is dark. Only when everyone is gathered there something does happen: Rembrandt appears, opening the main stage doors, the large and heavy doors creaking when they open.

Rembrandt herds everything together, guiding them down the halls of the seating area. You better not stray from the hallway -- there's a very palpable sensation that something's deeply wrong about this place. You may perhaps see the form of something moving, blending with the darkness. Wait...it's several forms. A few pairs of intensely blue eyes, eyes that so far only Ango may have seen before, gaze at everybody. You really shouldn't try to approach. At least they don't try to come closer, cowed by Rembrandt's presence.

The main stage is the objective here. It's lit rather brightly, with the spotlights the Lady had used for her introduction a few days ago, illuminating the stage. In what's a rather ominous touch, the backdrop depicts hellfire. There aren't any props around, other than a few seats that seem to be spares for seats in one of the minor auditoriums, not even enough seats for everyone. Rembrandt blends into the darkness.

"Welcome!"

That's the Lady's voice, coming from high up. Looking up, you'll find a balcony to a side, large and with two seats. There's the Lady, wearing her dress, visible even in the darkness. She's standing up right now and leaning on the railing, shouting at them.

"Let's try to make this short and sweet. We figured it'd be fun if you all got to discuss who killed dear annoying Elliot. Give us a name, and we'll execute that person. Nice and simple, don't you think?"

"So, culprit who saved so many people from us...now you have to struggle for your own life. Oh, we never told you about this before? Don't feel bad, there's a lot we don't tell you all about. She sits down, adjusting her dress.

"I'm not going to pretend I care about you all catching the right person. Just give us a name and let the culprit go free, for all I care. Get started, we don't have all day to do this! You only have seven hours! Get moving!"

Here you are, all the actors in this impromptu play about justice, and the audience is...well there certainly is an audience larger than you were expecting. Everyone will hear the noises of those things moving around in the seating area, from time to time directing their eyes at the group, but they still make no attempt to approach. Looks like the audience that really matters is up there, in the balcony.

Let the trial for the death of Elliot Schafer begin.

[OOC NOTE: From the halfway point of the trial and onwards, you'll have the option to ask the masterminds for the chance to get a hint! Be warned, though: the price will involve some body horror for your character. Keep that in mind when deciding to use this option!]

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It's not, but it's the closest thing we have. Believe me, I'd much rather have a real courtroom, a real autopsy, and an educated judge. And even more, I'd like to see our captors put on trial as well.

But those aren't the cards we were dealt, and I have no interest in letting a murderer walk free. Punishment is punishment. I don't approve of vigilante action, but this is the best we can do right now.

It strikes me as a bit ridiculous to talk about justice - and acting as though this is justice - when we're only doing this because we're forced into it. I sincerely doubt we'd all be here if we had a choice in the matter.

[How many of us actually want to stand around for seven hours and yell about who killed this kid??]

If this was a murder in my hometown, I'd be doing much the same thing, only properly.

Oh yes, I know you would. [handwave!!] But the rest of us aren't usually involved in things like this - this isn't the same sort of "justice" you're used to. I'll be surprised if we manage to accomplish anything at all.

So out of curiosity... What will you do if our time limit approaches and we haven't reached a satisfactory answer for who killed Elliot?

Edited 2020-01-11 18:04 (UTC)

.... [ Hnnghh. ] In that event, I'll be forced to vote for a confirmed criminal among us who would have execution waiting otherwise.

It won't come to this though.

Is there a confirmed criminal among us who is awaiting execution when they return? Or is this something you'd simply decide for yourself, based on what you know of us?

There is.

[ Is he going to elaborate? No. Because it is something that he can only decide based on the profiles and this is bringing him into circular logic and... ]

We don't have time for this. Focus on the case.

[Well, he doesn't like the sound of that!! But fine, fine, he'll wave a hand as if to dismiss it.]

Very well, we'll do it your way.

[For now.]

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