fourth trial

[stagemanagers]

[When the investigation finishes, the lights begin to flicker on and off as that low, gentle rumble echoes through the opera house. Again for those investigating the grounds the outdoor lights illuminating the still night flicker to get their attention.

Your intermission is ending. Please return to your trial room.

The court room looks just as it did before: the grand chandelier glittering above your heads, the dusty red velvet seats. In the orchestra pit your circle of wooden podiums are waiting. Angus, Riley and Shilo's podiums are draped in black crepe with their greyscale funerary portraits, just like your friends before them. The ghost light glows softly behind the podiums.

The curtain is closed, waiting to open when a decision has been reached and the execution can commence.

When everyone is in their places, the Phantom's voice echoes loud and clear through the theatre from his place in box 5. He still sounds distracted, just as he was for his other public appearance this week, like there are other things weighing on his mind.]

You must now determine who was responsible for the death of Shilo Wallace. Submit your vote on the podiums when you are certain of your choice.

[Gather your evidence and let's begin.]

Comments

[likemypicture]

[Anne's trying to be cool to make up for her major freak out session yesterday, but it's hard when she was the one who just found and touched all over a dead body.

At least Tad Cooper's keeping chill.]

Shilo was in the garden, near where Richard was-- [this. sucks. She puts her hand on Tad Cooper, and summons all her strength from him]

It was like someone put her there.

[37773972]

Moved her from the stables to the garden, maybe?...

Anne, I hate to ask, but- were you able to tell how she...?

[likemypicture]

[YEAH ABOUT THAT]

[holyspit]

[Steven trails in after Anne.]

There were a lot of footprints around where- around Shilo. I couldn't tell how many people it was or how big they were, just. The grass was really flattened out.

[likemypicture]

It was really weird.

That's not all--- I found this [She gently places the red poppy on the podium, at the same time scooping tad cooper up off the podium so he can't try and nom that thing with his super fast dragon tongue] in her hands. It didn't seem like she was holding it before. More like someone put it there.

[37773972]

Is that from the garden?

[likemypicture]

I don't think so. It seems more like the kind of thing that comes from that weird booth.

[heathencall]

Then it's something any one of us could have had.

[Mildly annoyed! This doesn't narrow anything down.]

[37773972]

Especially with how we tend to share what we don't want.

[heathencall]

... I think I am going to stop leaving things in the hall.

cw: drug mention?

[heathencall]

... Did they want to get her high? That is not how it works at all.

[He would know. He tried to research it in Week 3, tyvm]

[justmeheere]

No, uh. It's. It's like a dead people thing, but like. In Britain.

[37773972]

Flowers are pretty common for the dead, though, I thought? [son do you have some Nerd Info]

[justmeheere]

The poppies are, like. A thing, though. People are constantly bitching about it on Twitter on Poppy Day or whatever it's called.

[37773972]

Not the people I follow. [Stephen that's pretty much NASA, the college, and certain Boring Places]

[likemypicture]

I don't remember a poppy day!

[heathencall]

So... Which of us is... British?... then?

[likemypicture]

I thought it was only Red.

I won't call myself British. But I was Queen of England.

[37773972]

Not me. I'm from California.

[holyspit]

Is British like Brittania..?

[garbageface]

I’m not British, I don’t know shit about British people, and honestly, I don’t wanna know.

[musacal]

I.... could not be farther from Britain, honestly.

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