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

[acherontiastyx]

[...honestly, as a Certified Bad Boy, he's not really mad that he's a suspect.

but you know.]

Okay, so the fact that you never named yourself or the other two as a suspect this whole time is totally friggin' arbitrary. Aight. I see how it is.

[thedifferencebetween]

[Huh. Look at that.]

[Jack has been very much keeping to himself this week, whatever attempts he'd been making to organize and prevent more death entirely abandoned. He looks tired and drawn and angry. His main response to seeing his name on the suspect list is to snort to himself.]

I can't believe you're still frigging making us go through this bullshit....

[princesstarshine]

Um, no, the crime just didn't fit them. Or me. I'm flawless, I'd never murder anyone.

[princesstarshine]

So don't? I gave you playing cards last week.

[thedifferencebetween]

Not the point and you know it. Honestly, I'm amazed only one of you three has been offed by now.

[princesstarshine]

Don't be rude.

[thedifferencebetween]

I'll be as rude as I damn well want. And what can I say? It'd bring me....well gosh, just so much joy to see all three of you utterly ripped to pieces. That's my happy thought these days.

[thatdarkmage]

[ He looks up at his face on the suspect list.

Of course he just smiles as he usually does. ]

Hmm, I wonder how many people here would actually agree to being your minion.

[acherontiastyx]

Uh-huh.

Anyway. Detective Guzma here with the evidence. In the foyer, I found a little cookie trail leading to a message saying "One down, two more to go" in blood like some kinda messed up scavenger hunt. There was also a bloody meat cleaver by the doorway. I checked it out in the kitchen and it seemed to match up with Sugimoto's, uh. You know. The decapitation.

There was a bloody handprint on the fridge, and like... the cabinet seemed to be wired up to electrocute somebody? There was a wire goin' out of the cabinet, going to the light switch and the doorknob. I thought that might've been what killed Sugimoto, maybe... but when Chuuya and I lifted the fridge off Sugimoto's body, there was a knife going through his chest all the way out his back.

[thedifferencebetween]

My roommate's a robot, robots are made to be minions.

Just saying.

[ident17y]

[ The most amused smirk. ]

You can ask Dr. Gero about that, I wasn't always the best at listening.

[thatdarkmage]

Why would someone push that huge thing onto the guy? That sounds pretty silly to me.

[ He's not touching the whole 'electrocute' thing yet, because wow. ]

[ident17y]

[ Looks at the paper, nonchalantly shrugs. ]

Threats usually work better if there's actually something behind them, you know.

[thedifferencebetween]

Like that matters. You had to listen well enough, you weren't scrapped. Trust me...I've scrapped entire lines of robots 'cause they didn't listen the way I wanted'em to. Of course now I just don't make them with free will or personalities or anything like that, I dunno why anybody does, you're just asking for an unstable pile of wires and lasers to have some kind of breakdown and start shooting everything while screaming 'WHY DO I EXIST?!?!'.

[acherontiastyx]

Yeah, I don't know. You'd think the knife would take care of things? I don't really get the decapitation part, either.

[ident17y]

How frightening. [ No he doesn't sound scared at all. ]

We were made from a human base, so the personality and free will isn't a defect but a trait. Of course he regretted that later, so I can't say I disagree.

So about that evidence. Also, attendence check.

[theothermrgray]

[In case anyone noticed the gaping hole in the back of the chair and the blood on the floor, Dorian's standing near Rider's body with a bloodied hot poker in his hands.]

Ladies and gentlemen, in my hands is the murder weapon used to kill Miss Rider. Judging from the amount of blood, I suspect she has been stabbed in the heart. I must also point out the position she was found sitting in, how limp and lifeless her arms were in comparison to the rest of the pose she was left in.

[He fidgets with the poker, trying to keep the blood off his hands while simultaneously trying to keep some manner of calm.]

Anyhow, I would like to ask something of the suspects... How many of you attended the slumber party last night? That might narrow down our list.

[thedifferencebetween]

Only because we stupidly programmed the robots to feel fear. Again, why? Now they don't.

Well, it is a defect, even if it's on purpose. It always seems like a cool idea, but then it happens and...it's not worth the trouble.

I'm sorry your existence is a mistake. Hey, maybe it all get set right this weekend.

[thedifferencebetween]

I would rather have eaten my own tongue than sat around kumbayaying it with a bunch of assholes and idiots who don't do a fucking thing they should in a life or death situation.

I said it before and I'll say it again, you die at this point, it's your own fault.

[ident17y]

If only the good doctor would have had your insight and wisdom.

[ Not addressing the rest. ]

[thedifferencebetween]

Whatever, I bet you did one of'em.

[ident17y]

I'm flattered, really. I suppose I should return the compliment then, and say the same of you.

[thedifferencebetween]

Yeah? Which one?

'Cause I'm thinking you were the complex electro-cabinet fridge trap that went wrong somehow.

[theothermrgray]

[Dorian glances at Jack. He's not sure if he should be irritated or wary.]

... Thank you for your input. Do you have an alibi for last night?

[thedifferencebetween]

Nope. I don't know if you noticed, but I stopped playing this week.