trial 4; baby, it's cold inside

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WHO KILLED CHRISTMAS?

Starshine and Brasco assemble everyone in the room. The room is extra foreboding and cold after the events of last week, and the raw egg evidence as well as Rider's body have been preserved in the room, so tread carefully.

Starshine slams down the paper for this week with all the suspects and laughs, turning to Brasco and gesturing wildly, pointing at him. "J'accuse, Brasco! This whole time, we've been pointing figures at each other but there was one man we never pointed at. And it's you! And actually, all the rest of the people on this list, too." She looks back at the list and taps it gently, "Oh, yeah, one other thing, I need you to write two names on your paper. Assuming you actually vote, unlike you abstainers," she says it the way someone in the 1950s might say communists. "I deduced that two people definitely killed the two dead people, so have fun with that." She claps her hands, "get to it, my minions!"

11 GUESTS REMAIN

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Comments

[thedifferencebetween]

Sorry that 'mourning my dead teenage daughter' isn't good enough for people, but that's what I was doing. And I do that shit alone.

I've been saying for a while that I don't do messy kills.

What the hell motive would I even have?

[doublesmall]

If you don't know who killed her, you'd be bound to get the right person eventually if you just started going after people. Or sometimes grief makes people act in ways they wouldn't otherwise. Maybe you just had more anger over it to take out on someone. There's reasons.

[thedifferencebetween]

....see, you don't know me. Not really. I was doing that, I woulda done it then and there. In the heat of the moment. I thought about it, actually, just burning this whole shithole down. Locking everybody inside and lighting it up. 'Cause like you said, grief makes you do weird stuff. But I didn't.

And I didn't...stab/crush/behead some dude, or stab anybody with a firepoker. Even...though I was threatening to stab somebody with a....

Okay, see, I'm obviously just up there 'cause I'm the cliche suspect. I'm too obvious!

[doublesmall]

I'm pretty sure there's something they say about how the most obvious answer is probably the right one.

[thedifferencebetween]

So I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you think I did it.

Or one of'em.

I'd like to see you try and prove it. Go ahead. But I'm gonna warn you...I don't take being falsely accused too well.

[doublesmall]

What, is that a threat? If you're that mad about it, take it up with the one who made the list.

There's no solid proof either way yet, so I'm not saying I'm sure you did it. I am saying I don't think I'd mind if it was you, though.

[thedifferencebetween]

More like a warning. And we all know it's our fucking hosts, and we all know how I feel about them.

No, you think I did. Even if you're not sure. And that's a real shitty thing to say to a grieving father, you know.

[acherontiastyx]

Trying to use your dead daughter as an excuse for us not to be mean to you just makes you look like more of a wuss than you probably intend it to, my dude.

[thedifferencebetween]

It was a shitty thing to say to me. Not that any of you give a shit, not one of you said one friggin thing to me or even cared. All you bleeding hearts....but you're no different than me. You only care if it actually touches you. Your empathy and sympathy is conditional.

[acherontiastyx]

You're saying that like I ever actually pretended otherwise.

[thedifferencebetween]

I said 'all of you'. The remaining assholes, not just you.

[doublesmall]

People have been suspected before when they were grieving. If you want me to feel bad about it you're not going to have much luck there.

[thedifferencebetween]

Well it seems to me like you're a hell of a lot more interested in poking me than actually trying to figure out what happened.

[doublesmall]

I'm still thinking, alright? Do I look like a fucking detective to you? Pretty sure most of the people who are actually good at this are dead.

[thedifferencebetween]

You're sure acting like one.

Well if you ask me, it was my robot roommate or creepy kid. They weren't at the sit-in, either. And one of'ems a robot, they have no value for human life.

[doublesmall]

Your roommate's the one who needed to talk about how he didn't need any help and so on at that meeting of yours too, wasn't he. So with that note this week...

Well, either two people are like that, one got help, or one just decided to get in on the murder. It'd be pretty sad to have two people involved if one wanted to prove their strength, though.

[ident17y]

I'm right here.

[ Yo. ]

[doublesmall]

Yeah, I'm aware.

[he has no problem talking about people like this tbh.]

So if you've got a defense better than "because I said I didn't do it", let's hear it.

[ident17y]

I don't have any reason to, I know how strong I am. Besides, if I wanted to kill someone why wait this long?

[ He's not offended, just stating. He also has little social couth. ]

[doublesmall]

If we're assuming you wanted to kill someone from day one, sure, that'd apply. It's still possible you'd just decide to do it later.

[ident17y]

Why? Before or now it doesn't matter.

[doublesmall]

There's still the part where not many people could've shoved a fridge over like that on their own, unless you want to make the argument that you're not actually strong enough for that.

[ident17y]

No, I could have. [ And he doesn't seem offended or taken aback by it. To the contrary, he smiles. ]

I'm not the only one who could. And the rest of all of that? Is a waste of time.