shslanon | Chapter 1: School Trial

[You all descend down a large elevator - at least, those who are alive. It's a huge, non-descript elevator with no music to make it any less creepy. At the bottom floor, which it automatically descends to once everyone is inside, there's a large circle of podiums with placards of photos - photos of them: Jonah, Pidge, Missy, Lev, Janssen, Maria, Nemo, Jakub, Saira, Alex, Aurelia, Bri, Prudence, and Geoffrey. Tony and Jack's portraits, while there, are scratched out with red ink. Sitting atop a small platform is Yuri, lounged out casually in a large chair. ]

Come in, come in! Find your spots and we'll begin the trial!

[Eventually it seems everyone is settled in their spots, and Yuri sits back in his chair, steeping his fingers.]

So, the gist that you have to accuse someone of being the culprit in this case! You do this by voting. Democracy is the wave of the future, after all! The time limit is until I'm bored! And if the gathered votes are wrong, you all die, alright?

...Oh, and by the way, you dumbasses, there is a murderer amongst you. I'll show you the video once you've voted.

[He motions at them, smiling.]

So, let's begin! Who's got a theory?

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[To play: Post a top-level comment with your character's theory. Responders will dispute the claims or ask for clarification. This may get messy in terms of format, but hopefully it will make future trials easier! Also, if there are any major development things (such as, for this case, Jack being dead), they can be addressed in a thread, as well. If you have any concerns or questions, please send me a message.]

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[but he's so small!]

[shakes his head at the question]

Nothing.

...

[wonders if asking him for clues would be a good idea, but he doesn't look like he wants to talk at all]

[turns his eyes to the photo projections again]

[It's not that he doesn't want to, but that he's sort of weird.]

Then why are you staring at me?

Hm? I was looking at the pictures.

[points at them]

But there is no help in them. Nobody knows who killed Tony.

Pictures?

[Turns around. He JUST noticed them.]

[Is that his butt. His eyes grow wide and his hands go to cover it, as if that will help.]

N-no I would say not!

[doesn't mind watching the butts pass by; it's about as exciting to him as pictures of rocks and sticks would be to other people]

[makes a small confused sound as the photograther stops just as she gets to pictures of the crime scene - but then again they all saw what there was to see]

...

[stares at whoever is talking together]

[this trial seems hopeless]

[Stare.]

You don't... talk much, do you?

[shakes his head]

[congratulations, now he's staring at him again]

[Frown.]

Right. Well. You should if you're going to smell like that too.

Hm?

[looks confused, then smells his shirt's arm and frowns too]

Oh...

You didn't shower, did you?

[There's one down for Jonah's theory. At least he isn't a killer. Weird, yes. Killer? No.]

N-n. I wanted to, but... we found Tony then.

I could have showered after that, but I forgot.

...

Um, wh-what did you find out?

Ah.

[He eases up a bit.]

It was likely female and we're looking for someone with a used sewing kit and possible washed blood stains on their clothing.

[nods and lightens up a little - suddenly many snippets he heard others talk about fall into place]

O-only the girls have the sewing kits, right? That's why?

[didn't even check his room enough to find his own toolkit, but he gathered as much from what the small girl has been doing]

...

But, um. What is those scissors belonged to Tony? Then a boy could have taken them from her.

Which is why we would be looking for a sewing kit missing its scissors. Even if it wasn't the owner, it will help us track down the killer.

Hm...

[it takes him a moment to process the possibilities]

Right.

Th-the thing about the blood... stains?... is a very good idea, too, but if we cannot find some, then maybe we can find out who wears different clothes than yesterday? I can't remember, but the pictures can help. A-and did he-- [points at Jonah]-- not say he could, um, smell it if somebody has washed their clothes?

With all these things together we could find out some...

["suspects"]

...

It is strange, that somebody killed her. I thought killing somebody is very hard.

Physically? No. Humans have a lot of weak spots. Morally?

... That's another question.

[He nods.]

I think we're narrowing our search.

Hm-m.

[looks around at the others again]

[he still doesn't have very much hope - there will likely be more than one possible culprit left even after their careful elminiation of possibilities, and the real one might lie and confuse them - but at least now he knows what is going on and what they are looking for]

Chapter 1: School Trial

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