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

[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]

...Maybe he BSOD'd? Wouldn't that be a treat.

[superstylishschism]

...Hey, anyone got a felt marker? Maybe we can mess with him before he reboots. If we can't get outta here while he's out of it, anyway.

...Or maybe before we book it.

[shslancer]

[Having been quiet up to this point, from feeling so bad, Nephenee pipes up while holding out one.]

Like this?

[superstylishschism]

Perfect.

[He takes the marker and scribbles an 'X' over Monobear's red eye and a tongue lolling out of his mouth.]

[tsungeonsanddragons]

I...might have. Bears don't normally punch themselves in the face. Usually that's reserved for salmon.

[superstylishschism]

Who knew the trick to defeating our oh-so-powerful 'coach' was asking him a question he couldn't answer. I would've brought out the impossible riddles a long time ago.

[despairection]

..upu.

Upupupu.

[aw goddamnit, it was too good to be true... he kind of whirs back up, then, chuckling all the while.]

Upupupupupupupupupupupu. You didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?

The answer's so easy that I must've been a total idiot just a second ago! If there are two people responsible, you've gotta figure both of them out! But that's a preeeeeeeetty big if.

[superstylishschism]

I've got another question! I'm lying, but this statement is true. Am I being honest?

[theothersissel]

Uh...what?

[That's...odd.]

Are you...malfunctioning?

[despairection]

[...404 Monobear not found, apparently, given that there's no response.]

[theothersissel]

Huh.

[WEIRD.]

Guess we can just leave, now?

[He's just going to step out from behind his podium, slowly, watching the bear the entire time.]

[tsungeonsanddragons]

I'm almost a little disappointed. How anti-climactic.