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calloperators ([personal profile] calloperators) wrote in [community profile] 1_800_hotline2019-06-15 12:00 pm
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TRIAL 1 [DAY 4]

[The sound of rapidly approaching police sirens indicates that it's time to leave the crime scene.

When you reach the previously-defunct laundry room at the motel, you find that the door swings open easily. A wave of air carrying stench of rotting flesh immediately hits you in the face, accompanied the sound of flies buzzing incessantly, having finally being released from their disgusting prison. Two rotting corpses lay on the ground, both with gunshot wounds through their bodies. Curiously enough, these corpses are both wearing masks--one with a wolf mask, and another with a clown mask. From the general state of these corpses, their bodies appear to have been here for weeks. Some of you might feel a twinge of recognition at the sight of them, though you don't remember why.

Once you manage to look past the corpses, you'll find that there's an open door on the back wall with stairs leading down. Whatever washing machines that used to be here have been removed, leaving rusty impressions on the walls and floor. As you carefully make your way down the concrete steps, the air grows colder and mustier, and the sound of the radios fade. You eventually step into a dimly-lit chamber that only vaguely resembles a boiler room, as a series of pulpits have been arranged in rows, labeled by room number. Pyro's stand, of course, is conspicuously empty.

You realize that this has been the only time during your time here that you haven't heard any music at all.

Standing before all the pulpits at the front of the room, there's a CRT TV buzzing with static. As soon as everyone files in, the metal door swings shut with an abrupt CLANG and locks behind you. The static fills the silence for several minutes.

The screen flickers, and a face appears. His blonde hair is slicked back in an unnatural fashion, his plastic smile is almost permanently affixed to his face, and the suit he's wearing looks...far too shiny to be remotely real. His movements are jerky, occasionally changing completely in pose in view to the camera.

He opens his mouth and speaks in a stuttering, artificial tone, rising and falling with no sense of rhyme or reason.]


This IS M-M-Max HEADroom, and YOU are all all all HERE to catch a murderer! Your JOB is to find out who's g-g-g-g u i l t y, and I'm here to help move things along, in a sense. ense. ense. [A pause.] Then again, you're--all guilty of something, aren't you?

[And he throws back his head and laughs.]



< TRIAL START! >

iote: (03.)

[personal profile] iote 2019-06-15 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm within my rights to refuse; it's hardly my fault that the rest of you chose not to.
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[personal profile] orforfun 2019-06-15 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, I’m not really like...getting why you would say no to that. It’s super easy and now you’re just reeeeaalllllyyy digging a trench for yourself by saying no.
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[personal profile] iote 2019-06-15 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want anyone in my personal space. That's all. Besides, I have multiple layers on, removing it would be a production, and again, I simply see no reason to unless all of you are irrational enough to kill a person over something like that.
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[personal profile] orforfun 2019-06-15 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
So I’m guessing you wore less layers when you did it. Probably gonna be something totally fucked up there when you finally take that stuff off. Throwing ten bucks at that possibility. Everyo - all of you have to do that if I’m right.

[he ends his tangent, sort of blinking himself back to reality.]

...dude, I get it. It’s a shitty situation. But we have to explore all our options here, and I know every other person in this room would drop everything and do this in a heartbeat if it meant a slightly increased chance of us saving our asses. You’re just being a douche about it.
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[personal profile] iote 2019-06-15 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't have done this to them. I have no reason to, and none of the evidence or scenarios we've laid out imply that I did. Furthermore, the threat we were given a few days ago means nothing to me.

I've done nothing. Your conjecture is baseless.
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[personal profile] orforfun 2019-06-15 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You just described 80% of us, dude. Your defense is baseless.
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[personal profile] iote 2019-06-15 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
At least eighty percent of us presumably didn't murder someone.
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[personal profile] orforfun 2019-06-15 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Presumably.
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[personal profile] worldchampofmartialarts 2019-06-15 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I've gotta side with longhair, here. From what we know, gasmas-... Pyro, got hit from the front with their own weapon... which is the kinda thing I can only imagine the perp getting away with by knowing them well enough to not need any special sneak attack setup to ambush the poor soul. Just enough misplaced trust for Pyro to let their guard down and not suspect a thing about them. And from what I gather, he doesn't... didn't have that kinda relationship with them.

Not to mention, this guy barely knows what a cigarette is, much less what half of what Pyro gave him is, so if we're running with the theory the fire got set by the killer to cover their tracks, then he's clearly out.

The only thing suspicious is him not wanting to go along with getting looked over by a stranger- but that idn't enough to paint him as a killer, pal.
Edited 2019-06-15 23:07 (UTC)