THE FOURTH TRIAL

[despairection]

[Who is Goombriel Gambaldi? Why should the campers have any reason to care about his death? This is a question that must be answered, as the campers are summoned to a trial.

 

Portraits of Clair and Yomiel have appeared in the courtroom - with an additional portrait of Goombaldi slapped next to Yomiel's.

 

Will the collected evidence spill out the truth? Or will this mystery remain unsolved?

 

8 students remain.]

 

 

[Let the class trial in the murder of Goombriel Gambaldi...begin.]

 

Comments

[shslancer]

[Having been injured and out of it, Nephenee's a bit bleary-eyed, but she's here, sporting a bandage around her head. No helmet or hat today, revealing...a pretty girl. Yeah, she freaked out over nothing, really.

You'll have to see Alastor for snacks today, though. Understandably, she couldn't grab them.

Currently she's standing to the side trying to be a wallflower. Nephie stop that.]

[fitnessenthusiast]

[Hey Neph, she's got a gift for you. She walks over to her and lifts up her helmet.]

[shslancer]

[Nephenee's eyes, which had been a bit worried-looking, light up when Wiitney holds up her Sentinel helm.]

Ah! Ah was wonderin' where ya got to, lil' barbute!

[And while she can't put it on right now, on account of head injury needing to breathe, she gratefully takes it, and wraps Wiitney up in a tight, happy hug.]

Thank ya so much, Miss Wiitney!

[superstylishschism]

[He gives her shoulder a firm squeeze on the way in. Maybe a little reassuring will help?]

[shslancer]

[He's getting an arm wrapping around him. Shoulder squeezes are well and good, but hugs are better.]

[There's a little 'Mrf' noise into his shoulder.]

[green_mario]

S-so, first things first. I found a rope on the roof of the Pokecenter, but I have-a no idea what it's-a doing up there since it wasn't tied to anything. Does anyone else have any clues for it?

[superstylishschism]

Rope? I didn't think we had anything like that here. The area for climbing equipment has been empty this entire time.

[green_mario]

Oh, maybe that explains why the rope looked really weathered then? It was from before Monobear emptied out that area?

[monoguests]

[Clarice is here, though she is...awkwardly trying to move Dark Pit's portrait out of the way to stand at that podium.]

[shslancer]

Why not move Betrayus?

[No one likes Betrayus.]

[monoguests]

...I mean, this one was mine.

[superstylishschism]

Sorry, I didn't get to do as much investigating as I usually do...I was kinda busy looking after Nephenee.

But what I did find, I think she was attacked while she was getting ready for her shower. Or...maybe drugged. I found a bunch of cookies in the camp store that weren't there before, and she had crumbs around her mouth.

I also found a pair of old boots under where the empty shelf for climbing gear.

[fitnessenthusiast]

What kind of cookies were they?

[superstylishschism]

This kind.

[He takes a plastic wrapped sheep cookie out of hammerspace to show to Wiitney.]

[superstylishschism]

[After a discussion with Clarice, Alastor thinks he has an idea of what's going on here. He slams a fist on his podium and raises his voice.]

Listen up, everyone. This trial is a farce. Goombaldi was dead when we got here, and not only that, but his murder was solved in a previous trial.

[He pulls himself up to his full, rather impressive, height and points a finger directly at Monobear.]

This trial is a setup. Your motive failed, so now you're trying to get us executed by tricking us into voting when the murderer is already dead!

[fitnessenthusiast]

Does that mean the Coach drugged Nephenee?

[green_mario]

Um... Actually...

[There is a long pause after he says this, unsure if he should go through this.]

I'm-a not sure that we should rule out that the culprit might still be alive.

[monoguests]

[...someone's gotten a little too worked up over cookies, it seems, because holy hell, Clarice is practically vibrating at this point. it's hard to tell precisely what emotion is accompanying that vibrating, At least part of it seems to be GO HARD OR GO HOME, though, because she's slamming her fist down onto Pittoo's former podium.]

...ow... A-anyway! I think you bet you have it all figured out, with your... cookies and everything! But yeah, you know, how'd the murderer get onto the roof, huh!? There's no climbing gear anywhere, and I'm sure if someone found it they would've brought it up by now! So there!

...MACHINE GUN TALK BATTLE... START...?

[superstylishschism]

...Didn't Luigi mention an old rope on the roof of the Pokecenter?

[chaoscontrol]

.... Does anyone have any idea what this madwoman is babbling about?

[green_mario]

A-actually, I didn't find it that hard to get to the top of the roof, m-maybe it's-a because I'm a good jumper, but...

VOTING TIME

[despairection]

Well, you heard the lady, didn't ya? It's time to vote! Get a move on, I wanna see some blood!

[green_mario]

W-wait! Why did you bother doing this in the first place?

[lavenza]

...I fail to see why we must vote for anyone.

EXECUTION: ...

[despairection]

[the twist is there is none]