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THIRD TRIAL

[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.]

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To throw us off the scent? Maybe, but I don't think there'd be any benefit they couldn't get by giving her the note in the first place.

...Though, I wonder. It's possible the other notes were deliberately illegible to make sure only one person followed them while making it look more like a legitimate offer of help.

I...guess it's possible. But wouldn't the printer need to be tampered with in order to get such a result?

Probably wouldn't be that hard. Just mess up the ink cartradges a bit...

Did you guys find a printer that could've made the notes? If you did, did you check to see if anything was wrong with it?

What's a printer look like?

Like, uh, a big box, I guess? It has a slot where you ca put paper in, and a slot where printed pages come out of.

Oh, there was one of those in the computer lab.

Okay, and did you see anything wrong with it? Was it broken or tampered with?

...How would I tell?

...

Did no one else take a look at the printer?

Would've if I'd known there was anything important about it aside from the fact that we have one.

Does it help that I found copies of those notes behind the printer?

Copies...? Why would they print out extra copies and then just leave them lying around?

Were the copies readable?

I could only recognize a few of the words. The rest was illegible.

Edited 2015-10-25 03:14 (UTC)

Huh.

Okay, since Clair asked nicely...about the printer, were there any strange marks on it? Or did it look like it had been thrown?

Basically, did it look like somebody had beat it up?

[She spends a moment thinking about it.]

I don't think so.

Okay, so there wasn't a problem with the printer externally.

There probably was a problem with it internally. It's possible something went wrong with it after it started printing. I don't think the culprit could do something like that intentionally, honestly...

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superstylishschism - 2015-10-25 03:42 (UTC) - Expand

Yomiel.

[Giving him a look. ~~Someone's sleeping on the couch tonight.~~]

At least try to walk her through it. You're good with computers; it shouldn't be hard for someone of your talent.

[This is the look of a man who's been through so many similar situations that it isn't even funny. The number of times people have tried to make him explain the simplest things about computers is too many to count.]

[He lets out a frustrated sigh.]

...Okay, fine, I'll try. But this is a person who didn't even know what rain was, I don't know how much she could understand.

She's smarter than you think. I'm confident in her, and I don't say that lightly.

Edited 2015-10-25 03:25 (UTC)

Okay, okay, I'll explain. Don't give me that look...

~~Is this one better?~~

~~yes~~

[~~ugh mom and dad are so embarrassing~~]

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totaldrag - 2015-10-25 03:49 (UTC) - Expand

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