[Before the trial properly begins, Craftly has a small announcement to make.]
For today's trial, my employers have granted me permission to disclose the number of killers from the onset. [A beat, as he deadeyes at the horizon and takes a shot of something decidedly alcoholic.] ... Not that it matters at this stage, seeing as how their identities have spread like wildfire, but I am still bound by my duties as Innkeeper. There are five murderers. Two of them are among the deceased. Three are not.
That is all.
[And there he goes to his own table, where he'll be overseeing the "trial."]
CRAFTLY
For today's trial, my employers have granted me permission to disclose the number of killers from the onset. [A beat, as he deadeyes at the horizon and takes a shot of something decidedly alcoholic.] ... Not that it matters at this stage, seeing as how their identities have spread like wildfire, but I am still bound by my duties as Innkeeper. There are five murderers. Two of them are among the deceased. Three are not.
That is all.
[And there he goes to his own table, where he'll be overseeing the "trial."]