factoring | Homophonic: Fei Du

Usually this is handed off to lawyers. I doubt we'll have that.

[Imagine if you will, a murdergame where Phoenix Wright had to grill each and every audience member because he didn't know who was guilty.]

We'll have to see what we're working with tomorrow. But - between all of us, I'm sure we'll figure it out. There's enough people with experience that we should be able to narrow down the field with the evidence that we have.

[ fei du looks thoughtful as he pulls his hand down. ]

There was a considerable amount of strength involved, or at least the strong use of a psychokinesis, and there were plenty of slashes in the wall of the bowling alley on top of the rest of the destruction. Judging from talking to the others, there may be quite a few locations to revisit through photos, which means it might have been an extended battle. Our potential perpetrator might be injured - though, if it were me, I would have found a way to heal myself today no matter how many tries it took.

[Is that a good or bad thing, after this week? They know that Erasing the others gives a good amount of points.

She swings again, thoughtful.]

Slashes make sense. [There's some ability to create a blade with elemental abilities, isn't there?]

You felt it too, didn't you? We can access each other's psychs in our team now. Depending on the perpetrator, they might not even have to talk to anybody about getting healed.

I did.

[ so. there's that. ] Still - they've been a little off today. I tried to light Wenzhou's cigarette for him and found it wouldn't work immediately. It may mean that there's a slim chance they didn't.

That's something to keep an eye on, though. Team TBD may be the only group without one, not that sharing psychs would do them much favor, anyway. [ 4x drift... hyper fast... ]

Right. Even if they did manage it, depending on how severe the injuries become, they might not be able to use their psyche at all tomorrow. [Hm. Does that mean they're all going to be displaying their psychs at trial.]

All their Drift Auras. [Their RPG part of all agility.]

[ jokes on you i wont do anything

anyway. ]

Right - which, if they did switch, could be a potential lead. [ fei du looks thoughtful for a moment, and starts to scroll through his phone. ] ... Our victim had Umbrakinesis - I assume that's control of shadows and darkness, based on what I've seen of Shu's abilities. It's likely not all that different from mine or any other elemental ability, in that it's inherently flexible... and his team is split evenly, two Umbrakinesis, and two healers.

I didn't feel like I could use your psych until today. We don't know if that was necessarily the case for the victim and assailant last night.

For now, we're certain he had access to his own power, but everything else is currently unknown.

Right. I think it's likely, though - all of us were knocked unconscious. It may have happened over the course of the change from 11:59 to midnight.

[ that seems like it would make solving things difficult, so, like. of course it would go that way. ]

That's correct, though. We also know he was in a few different places overnight, so we should be able to set up a timeline. [ frowning. ] I wish we had been able to get an autopsy.