FIFTH TRIAL

[whimsicalism]

Is everyone finished? Good. It's time for a trial.

[The ride to the court room is uneventful this time. There's no breaking of bones or porcelain when you land. The podiums are rather empty, especially now that there's only twenty portraits even if there's twenty one podiums still. Huh. Fancy that! It's almost as if the Storyteller was still bitter.

Though, there definitely feels something off about the court room. It sort of feels like you're being watched but you're not sure.]

Seven is Dead. Time to find out who's responsible. Time for a trial!

Comments

[battlestations]

If they were willing to stick their hand all the way into the fireplace, I doubt we'd have been left with a scrap. That would be unbelievably sloppy...

[xxxx_me]

Yeah...

Sorry, I'm running out of ideas.

[Weh.]

[battlestations]

It's fine. We're all a bit stuck at the moment, at least in terms of how to corner this perpetrator.

[Like he still thinks it's Gavroche, but he was pretty humbled before by his wrong suspicion of dogs]

[xxxx_me]

...Maybe we need to focus on who could have made a trap and shot the darts?

[battlestations]

You mean we solve the case with logic? Hmm.....

[I DUNNO CHIEF!! SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING AN ADULT WOULD DO.]

...Well alright first of all, how many of us would even know how to set up a bear trap of all things?

[xxxx_me]

Do you just... open it up and set it on the ground?

[He's. He's trying.]

[battlestations]

I honestly don't know either. If I encountered a bear, I would simply put it on a catapult to hug my enemies.

[xxxx_me]

...Huh?

[battlestations]

It's our latest 2x4 technology, the BEARHUGGAH. 'Big Enormous Assault Rifle Hurls Ugly Grizzly Giving Agonising Hugs.'

[xxxx_me]

...Aren't bears usually dangerous though?

[battlestations]

Sure... for them.

[xxxx_me]

[battlestations]

Oh don't look at me like that. They just cuddle them really tight. It'd be cute if they weren't adults.

[strictura]

A lot of us live in cities where we wouldn't normally see anything like that, right?

[battlestations]

That's what I thought, anyway.

[nothingposh]

Yeah, aren't a lot of bears in Paris.

[ballooncaged]

I agree. Like we were talking about with the ocean. Besides Gilgamesh, I think I've already heard it's like that for literally everyone besides Amdi and Dark Dream, who have other reasons to not definitely know.

[xxxx_me]

So maybe we need to focus on aim then.

[ballooncaged]

[Rubs back of neck]

It's not my thing, if you want to take my word for it...

[xxxx_me]

Me neither.

[strictura]

I'm not really good at anything that requires any kind of physical ability.

[ You guys saw him with that jukebox and that pinata. ]

[battlestations]

[He's scratching his chin at this because he doesn't think there'd be much recoil on a water-gun, but he'll let it slide for now since he also doubts his ability to carry Seven's head etc.]

[battlestations]

Wait a minute. The culprit probably held the bloody end of the rope, didn't they? Maybe we could figure something out with that.

[xxxx_me]

The bloody end?

[ballooncaged]

! I haven't thought about that at all! The blood on the rope could totally tell us more about how the fight went.

But I like where you're going with this. I've been thinking that if the black fabric was just clothes, then it could make sense for the culprit to only wash their hands.