fifth trial

[stagemanagers]

[When the investigation finishes, the lights begin to flicker on and off as that low, gentle rumble echoes through the opera house.

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

The court room looks just as it always has for you: the grand chandelier glittering above your heads, the dusty red velvet seats. In the orchestra pit your circle of wooden podiums are waiting. Jeremy and Steven's podiums are draped in black crepe with their grey scale 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. His tone is even, with none of the distraction or terse notes in the weeks before. He almost sounds curious for how this all will play out.]

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

[Gather your evidence and let's begin.]

Comments

cw suicide mention

[37773972]

The SQUIP- before. There was no trial. [Before the whole...last week thing.] It was ruled a suicide.

[heathencall]

That's. True.

But that was very cut and dry, wasn't it? We all witnessed what happened. That wasn't the case here.

[likemypicture]

And the squid was never like-- an actual cast member, Ja? It wasn't in our programs.

[heathencall]

It was enough of a cast member that it would have counted as murder if anyone else forced the drink down Jeremy's throat.

[madgiganticfeelings]

'm sorry.

[She still feels pretty guilty about that, even if after the last trial, she still feels like she'd do it all again.]

[37773972]

No, but I had written him asking about that. He said it still counted.

[musacal]

Wasn't that also because you were all there to see though?

[ she wasn't there but she recalls the Phantom's announcement ]