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shiftingwinds) wrote2021-02-13 07:15 pm
shiftingwinds) wrote2021-02-13 07:15 pm
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[7rings] catchall for steven
i'll make this post pretty when i'm less canonblind to steven
[time to revisit some evidence in the (spins wheel) gym!
unfortunately, word of mod is the evidence all poofed after the trial, so. here they are, all ready to investigate, and there's... there's nothing.
shi qingxuan frowns.]
...well, now what?
unfortunately, word of mod is the evidence all poofed after the trial, so. here they are, all ready to investigate, and there's... there's nothing.
shi qingxuan frowns.]
...well, now what?
[ Good lord... just all gone, like that? There's no way they could've had the time to just clean it all up manually. It's akin to the mess made in the first weekend and how that also disappeared overnight. ]
...So once a trial's done, it's just done.
...So once a trial's done, it's just done.
It appears so.
[which, can she just say? she hates that.]
It doesn't seem quite right to me.
[which, can she just say? she hates that.]
It doesn't seem quite right to me.
Can it for anyone who cares even remotely about the outcome?
[ He's sure there are people here who do care -- like SQX. Steven, too, can't just let it go as another person's problem. They're all involved now. ]
Nine hours really isn't enough time to make the verdict.
[ He's sure there are people here who do care -- like SQX. Steven, too, can't just let it go as another person's problem. They're all involved now. ]
Nine hours really isn't enough time to make the verdict.
I've never heard of an investigation with such a short amount of time allotted to it.
[usually, it takes much longer. although she doesn't typically investigate murder.]
[usually, it takes much longer. although she doesn't typically investigate murder.]
The murder, the lockdown leading up to it, the odd things all around... it all adds to a high pressure environment. Maybe it's engineered that way, to force us to point fingers, panic, cast the first stone.
[ He sighs, quietly. ]
We don't even know if it was a murder.
[ He sighs, quietly. ]
We don't even know if it was a murder.
...I don't see how it can possibly be considered "justice" if we still don't even know what happened.
[just!
ugh!!]
[just!
ugh!!]
[ Mmnn... ]
Well, the short story is that objectively it's not.
Maybe others will feel that it is, on grounds that there was a conviction at all. And by nothing but pure words and record alone, Beauregard seemed most likely to be the criminal, and if a typical, real court had arrived to the same conclusions we did... then by the rules, Beauregard is guilty.
[ But he looks at her. You disagree, don't you? ]
Well, the short story is that objectively it's not.
Maybe others will feel that it is, on grounds that there was a conviction at all. And by nothing but pure words and record alone, Beauregard seemed most likely to be the criminal, and if a typical, real court had arrived to the same conclusions we did... then by the rules, Beauregard is guilty.
[ But he looks at her. You disagree, don't you? ]
If she didn't actually do it, then she's not guilty.
[period.]
And according to the... "court" we came out of, we got it wrong.
[period.]
And according to the... "court" we came out of, we got it wrong.
Well, I don't know about top, but. There was that person who was swinging around a chainsaw in the Experimental Holding, for example. Nothing on her actual personality from me, so it's no conviction, but it was definitely a form of a first impression.
Oh... Grell, right?
[she, uh, she remembers that. she ran into grell doing that too.]
The redhead?
[she, uh, she remembers that. she ran into grell doing that too.]
The redhead?
Edited 2021-02-14 04:35 (UTC)
Well, I can't say I disagree with that.
[...]
Though it would make for a rather obvious weapon.
[buuut, after today, "obvious" might be how any potential killers decide to hide in plain sight.]
[...]
Though it would make for a rather obvious weapon.
[buuut, after today, "obvious" might be how any potential killers decide to hide in plain sight.]
I'm not sure. If someone was... indulging, then...
[maybe someone really did decide to indulge in some murder?]
...but if we're all meant to indulge, you'd think there would have been some sort of safeguards against it. I find it hard to believe any other sin is being indulged in now, aside from Despair or Wrath.
[maybe someone really did decide to indulge in some murder?]
...but if we're all meant to indulge, you'd think there would have been some sort of safeguards against it. I find it hard to believe any other sin is being indulged in now, aside from Despair or Wrath.
I find that hard to imagine, as well.
[...]
Well, no. I'll likely be indulging in quite a lot of alcohol later.
[...]
Well, no. I'll likely be indulging in quite a lot of alcohol later.
It doesn't sound quite as nice as it did at the beginning of all this, does it? ...but it doesn't seem as though we can simply quit.
[after all...
they're all here for a reason. if they didn't feel that what they wanted was worth whatever they had to do to get it - they wouldn't be here.]
[after all...
they're all here for a reason. if they didn't feel that what they wanted was worth whatever they had to do to get it - they wouldn't be here.]
Well... I figured from the start that there must be a catch to it.
[ It's just sad because everyone else is also down about it. It pulls at Steven's more still-empathetic side. ]
...Well, if you need a drinking partner at any rate -- I don't think I could keep up with you, but at least in company.
[ It's just sad because everyone else is also down about it. It pulls at Steven's more still-empathetic side. ]
...Well, if you need a drinking partner at any rate -- I don't think I could keep up with you, but at least in company.
I think I'll take you up on that - tomorrow, though.
[...]
Since we can't keep investigating, I want to write down as much of what I remember from the trial today as I can before I drink. It might not be enough to find who did it with what we found, but if anything similar comes up later...
[it's better than just trying to go by memory in a few weeks!]
[...]
Since we can't keep investigating, I want to write down as much of what I remember from the trial today as I can before I drink. It might not be enough to find who did it with what we found, but if anything similar comes up later...
[it's better than just trying to go by memory in a few weeks!]
That's true.
If not for ourselves, for the boy, and any other possible ones down the line. [ There's a bigger picture here. Surely. Most definitely. Must be. ]
...We'll figure it out. Whether by running, by walking, by crawling -- as long as there are people willing to try, we'll find an answer.
If not for ourselves, for the boy, and any other possible ones down the line. [ There's a bigger picture here. Surely. Most definitely. Must be. ]
...We'll figure it out. Whether by running, by walking, by crawling -- as long as there are people willing to try, we'll find an answer.
...right.
The one thing I'm not willing to do is to just forget about it.
[so no booze for her tonight]
The one thing I'm not willing to do is to just forget about it.
[so no booze for her tonight]
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