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

[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?

[superstylishschism]

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Curiously looking at the cookies. Are they vacuum wrapped or just loosely wrapped?]

[monoguests]

[Vacuum wrapped, just like you'd get at the store.]

[superstylishschism]

At the very least, he had to have been the one to provide the cookies. Unless anyone's found equipment that can be used to vacuum wrap something.

[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.

[chaoscontrol]

What? That formaldehyde means that Goomba thing has been dead for a while. Since the... last group of students, I guess. Are you saying Clarice might be responsible? Or are there other former students hiding here?

[green_mario]

W-well I don't wanna point fingers, but Clarice did say that she and two other students are still alive. M-maybe Monobear is doing it to... solve a crime that the other ones couldn't solve?

[chaoscontrol]

Ugh. MONOBEAR! You lazy asshole. Take care of your OWN unfinished business! We don't even know who these other two students are...

Unless...

Clarice, are the other remaining students moles?

[monoguests]

........uh.

Okay first off, what's a mole?

[chaoscontrol]

[well that probably answers that. But--]

The ones here... they're animals, a bit smaller than I am. Brown. Wear construction helmets. Dig in the earth.

[monoguests]

Oh, um...nah. Not that I can remember.

[superstylishschism]

But if they couldn't solve the crime, everyone but the culprit would be dead.

[green_mario]

Um... well...

We... we don't-a have much evidence right now so I might-a be wrong, but we can't rule out that Clarice is actually a graduate...

[superstylishschism]

But then, why would she still be here? Unless Monobear is lying about letting the so-called 'champion' leave.

[green_mario]

Would you really put it past Monobear?

[After all, he "neglected" to tell everyone that that Game Genie couldn't bring back the dead.]

[superstylishschism]

Not really. I guess our best bet is to compare the size of the boots to Clarice's feet. Though it'll be hard to tell if she was telling the truth about them belonging to the killer, since any footprints are long gone.

[monoguests]

Those things are waaaay huger than my feet. Like, you don't even need to bring them over here.

...but really, I'm pretty sure if I graduated I'd be gone, so....

[superstylishschism]

Honestly, I can't think of much reason he'd keep a 'graduate' around, anyway. He doesn't seem to have the attention span to find amusement in a single person running around the most boring part of this dumb camp.

[monoguests]

Well, like I said, I totally didn't graduate, but I think he was just kind of hoping I'd wander into the lava at some point and burn with a super gross incandescence or something.

[green_mario]

But... doesn't this trial seem too easy if we know already who did it?

[superstylishschism]

For that matter, what's even the point of running a trial when the culprit isn't even here?

Hey, bear, can we even vote for people from a different 'class'?

[monoguests]

...

Well, you don't know the guy, like, personally? So, uh, yeah. It was Big Karl. Karl K. Rochet. He was kind of a Feraligatr lookin' guy.

[superstylishschism]

I think you might be giving him too much credit. I'm not entirely sure he didn't just forget about you when there was nobody left for you to kill or be killed by.

[monoguests]

......................

Wow, that's... really more depressing than thinking he was waiting to watch me burn in despair... can we all just pretend he kind of cared? Maybe?