FINAL TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

FINAL TRIAL


[Once everyone has managed to gather every piece of evidence they can get their hands on, there is, at last, a sense that they can go up to the top on the elevator that works. Granted, with access now granted, they probably could have gone up at any time, but it they would have been ill-prepared for what might be up there.

In any case, they might not have needed to worry.]



[Barbara will no doubt recognize this place as where Marie brought her just the previous week. It is a master control room, filled with buttons and levers that line the walls. However, the dome also allows for a view of what's outside - of the skies, the stars, the planets. The alpine valley the Base is situated, with its bubbling waterfall, and the crystal-clear blue lake it empties into, surrounded by flowers below the Base's base. The lake itself empties into a crystal clear river that looks to be narrow, but deep and rapid.

In the center of the room, near where the elevator rises out of the floor, is a chair, with a giant plush of that cheeky raccoon snuggled into it. Once everyone has come into the room, the elevator melts into the floor with a slurping sound. Now, everyone is here - and there's only one seat, meaning almost everyone will be standing for the duration of this discussion. There's no food or drink here, either - the Titled will have to make do with whatever they brought with them.

There's is a rumble below, as the Titled, together with Bottson and their menagerie of animals - gather together for one last trial. Everyone and everything in this universe may be at stake, and ultimately, either they all go home - or no one will.]


[It's time! The objectives are simple in this trial. It's time to finally answer the questions the Titled have about why they are here - and face the Mastermind of the Base.

Most importantly, though - who's got dibs on that chair? It's the only one in the room!

In any case, good luck, Titled!]

Comments

[earietale]

...do you know if we willingly signed up for it? Or if we were brainwashed?

[ichbindereinzelganger]

Given who's in charge, I'm not entirely convinced that this Earth isn't a planet of morons.

[losergod]

It is. It always has been. There's some smart and good people, but a large majority are idiots.

[earietale]

Who, though? Who is the moron that put us in here?

[losergod]

Yes, I'd like more than a stern word with them.

[ichbindereinzelganger]

Professor Lu Kuo Tang, I believe...

[backuphero]

"Who's in charge?"

Kid, there's a war on that's got nothing to do with this, why in the Sam Hill would I sign up for somebody else's problems?!

[ichbindereinzelganger]

Everyone has a price. Chances are you were all given very strong incentives to join.

Despite a lot of people being incompetent, they're surprisingly good at inventing things that are otherwise impossible to make in other universes. Even if it's born from a stupid accident.

[vividsins]

I mean. Unless they can revive the dead or someone hovering right on the verge...

[losergod]

I sincerely doubt they know how to move soul data. That's god-level work. It's something I've only recently come to understand myself, and I've done it.

[ichbindereinzelganger]

I don't know the particulars. I just know that these surgeries have been known to be used against the common cold in the private sector, and are quire popular. So there's never a short list of volunteers.

[mementodagger]

[Inventing impossible things. Strong incentives.

Yurick has a feeling he knows what his price might have been. He hopes he's wrong, because the thought of it... he might be even worse than Angela thinks he is.]

But we'll never remember those incentives, will we? So effectively, they now owe us nothing.

[theserpentsmiles]

I can think of something.

[Their lives. He's the Reaper now, he'll come to collect.

Of course, his new target is no one in this room, so it's only a hint of his bloodlust, but...but. He's not one to abide systems that take advantage of others.]

It sounds like we were sent here by people who only look to other universes for what they can gain from them - who they can use. I don't know how much they'd even follow through on any promises they made us...

I don't think I want to risk letting this happent o anyone else.

[ichbindereinzelganger]

Honestly, they'll probably keep their promise anyways. The head of the program isn't exactly good at being shifty.