THIRD TRIAL

[despairection]

[Ashley Blair, the SHSL Witch-in-Training, is dead. She's had her life snuffed out, but how and why? It's a murder both mysterious and menacing.

Portraits of Betrayus and Ashley, depicted in monochrome coloring, stand at their podiums. But more importantly, the courtroom this time is an exact and functional replica of the Eggman Factory. If only for the evidence they'll never be able to move...

Will they be able to use this evidence to find the truth? Or will the culprit's confusing conundrum get the best of them?

10 students remain.]



[Let the class trial in the murder of Ashley Blair...begin.]

 

Comments

[superstylishschism]

Yeah, you're just missing first aid equipment and actual style.

So, they could've gotten the Walkie Talkies easy...but what for? ...Hey. What happens if people conspire on a murder?

[despairection]

Naked is always in fashion, I'll have you know!

Well, I guess you could if you really wanted someone else to get off at the expense of your own life. There's no rules about accomplices, but only the person who lands the killing blow will be able to graduate.

[tsungeonsanddragons]

What if they both land the killing blow at the same time? Surely it's possible.

[green_mario]

Y-yeah, like if-a someone was killed by a Rube Goldberg machine and both culprits had a hand in building it?

[superstylishschism]

...You could also argue that nobody was guilty if the victim triggered the machine themselves. The motive just said someone had to die.

[despairection]

...No, no, no, the person who built the machine definitely counts as the killer. You can't weasel out of killing someone just because someone sprung a trap you built!

...

People? You can't do the parenthesis..es... when you're talking!

[tsungeonsanddragons]

[So it could have been more than one person. Tch, figures. Not that she's really that surprised. A machine that complex couldn't possibly have been made by one person.]

Even so, we need to know what we're suppose to do in case of multiple culprits. After all, what's stopping you from shifting the blame from the culprit we voted for to the one we didn't?

[superstylishschism]

Especially since the rule you gave doesn't account for traps.

[despairection]

No, no, it totally does account for traps! Whoever set the trap is the killer!

Hrrnrnrnrngh! Stop making my job so hard! I said it was thinking of flipping a coin, didn't I!?

[superstylishschism]

And what if they both set the trap? And if you flip a coin, then wouldn't we be taking a random guess which culprit we're supposed to vote for? Unless you actually plan on telling us.

[despairection]

There's absolutely no way I could just hand you the answer like that! That's not my job here! I didn't even hand you answers in the tutorials!

[superstylishschism]

Then you'd be expecting us to bet our lives on a completely random outcome that we don't get to see before voting. Sorry, no dice. Or coins either, for that matter.

[despairection]

...Y...yeah! I guess you should all die as a result of your own incompetence and not a coin flip... Let me...think about it?

[superstylishschism]

Or live as a result of our competence, don't count your chickens before they vote.

Just have an actual workable solution by the time we're done here so we aren't stuck in this place all day looking for ways to entertain ourselves. We might just decide a teddy bear looks like a fun toy.

[theothersissel]

As I hate to admit it, the bear's right. Whoever set it had the intention to kill. It's not like the trap could decide to kill someone or not on it's own...

[tsungeonsanddragons]

That's not good enough! I refuse to let everyone's fates be decided on the flip of a coin, because we have no reason to believe you WOULDN'T do such an asinine thing!

[despairection]

H-hey, sister, you're not in charge here! Besides, I'm just trying to stick to my rules! ...I didn't think of a rule for this!

[tsungeonsanddragons]

THEN MAKE ONE. IT'S IN THE RULES YOU CAN, ISN'T IT?

[superstylishschism]

[Where's the upvote button on this thing?]

[despairection]

Well, it'd be retroactive! And that... everything has to ---

[...oh, well, that was kind of a strange noise coming from Monobear, wasn't it. He kind of vibrates intensely. punches himself in the face, and warbles a bit before going limp.]

[superstylishschism]

[Blink blink.]

Think you broke him?

[chaoscontrol]

What happens if someone chooses to kill themselves?

[despairection]

Oh, it's an easy question! In that case, they're both the victim and the killer.

[chaoscontrol]

Interesting.

[despairection]

...

Ehhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnn.... I don't wanna deal with that. Maybe I'll just flip a coin and decide.