robowest | [ WEEK THREE

TRIAL

In the morning, the town comes back to life. Birds crow overhead, a snake nearby hisses, a lingering coyote dips behind a shop before disappearing into the wild. It's a frightening contrast to the stillness of yesterday but it doesn't mean it's over yet. After all, today is the trial.

The Sheriff stands on the porch of the Town Hall and brings his hand up to his mouth to let out a whistle. He'll thumb back to the Hall behind him and very clearly state --

"Trial time, folks. Get in here and figure out who did it."

And then he'll turn to leave before pausing and adding on,

"Bring a snack or somethin' too.

The Town Hall is set up more like a court house, a Judge's bench at the front but instead of at center, it's off to the side as if more for observation than participation. There's a table at the front of the room already holding a small box and a pad of papers and pen, for voting apparently. A side room containing only a metal gurney is next and today it's obvious why there's a gurney there at all with the corpse, resting right on top of it. Aside from that, there are rows for everyone to take a seat and it's only after everyone is inside and settled, that the doors close and the Sheriff speaks.

"Well, have at it. You've got till nine."

And then, he points to a clock on the wall that reads 12:00. Good luck.

Welcome to the trial post! Characters are free to discuss everything related to the trial here. They won't be let out of the room until 9PM when voting ends. Every character must vote and the voting post can be found here.

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[Okabe's abandoned any pretense; he's at Tarvek's cell almost instantly, standing straight, not even bothering to give a hello.]

You know a bit of tech, right? If there's anything you know that could get us home... [Fuck it, he'll just ask:] I need you to tell me what you know about dimensional travel.

[Oh boy what to say]

Dimensional travel is something we haven't quite achieved yet. However, the principles of the matter should be the same than opening portals to other places in the same world.

[He hasn't made any of that himself, and it'd be easier to think about this if he still had his spark, but he's going to try]

It'd need a machine capable of canvassing a different world, but for that one'd need to know a place in another dimension to aim for. That's the basic principle of portals in my world, having a clear target. Do you know anything about portals or teleportation?

Not in the context of spatial travel, exactly, but there are people in my world using Kerr black holes to transport things back or forward in time, across what we call 'world-lines' - things like matter or data. Me, I've only used it for data, but... [A future 'him' and a future 'lab' have done it with matter, so that has to be something?!]

[Okabe is pretty desperate.]

If you use a Kerr black hole to try to transport matter, it jellifies because of the compression involved. That's the problem. What I want to know is if anyone knows what kind of teleportation got us here.

Jellification is no problem as long as there's a way to undo it. A portal compresses the passenger and uncompresses them on the other side. It's all in the energy that composes the portal. Making this kind of stuff is...not easy to do for someone who isn't a spark, but you seem to know what you're doing.

[So yeah, good luck with that]

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