Exam 6

[lockdownmods]

Exam 6.

[ Once again, the exam begins with the desks arranged in a perfect circle; one desk for each person that's participating in the program. There are nameplates for everyone, and they have been bolted to each of the desks, facing the inside of the circle...

...including the deceased. Their chairs have been placed on top of their desks, signifying that they will not be needed. Above of their desks are holograms of their portraits from their profiles, grayed out and bloodstained.

The flowers still sit at Han's desk, but they've started to wilt.

Jim! Is also here! He looks quite pleased, and is sitting happily at the teacher's desk, just like a professor on his first day of class.]

Well! I hope everyone's ready to solve a murder! Of course you are, you're experts at this by now?

[Said with that beautiful... australian... accent.

Today you're all here to find the person who is responsible for the death of Contessa Rubikov, the Apprentice Annoyance. Take your time. ]



Victim.






Suspects.



[ The physical evidence tray sits in the middle of the circle of desks; you all have the Evidence app on your tablets to access photo evidence. ]

Examination START.

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Comments

[sendintheclown]

I think it was honorable. You believe in the good in people. I envy that.

[reshoot]

You didn't have to just envy it. You could've changed. You could've not tried to kill me and you could've not killed my fucking friend.

All this time, you were suspected at almost every trial and never did anything and, and...

[oh god does she actually feel a little? sympathetic? She shakes her head, refusing to make eye contact with him anymore.]

Just...go to hell, okay?

cw: implied suicide

[sendintheclown]

But people aren't good. The more they try to be, the more their morality crushes them.

[The previous trial had only made that all the more clear to him.]

That's why I've done away with it. I'm casting away the shackles of morality, I know righteousness is a lie.

[It's one he'd be content with, if he could believe in it. He pauses, before addressing her final point.]

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin, that is his punishment”. [Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.] ...I've been in hell all this time, now I'm finally breaking out.