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

VOTING

[strangerpeople]

[While hugs happen]

uH, yO Yo, hATe to Be a FoO, bUt wE goTtA voTe...

[The wrist watches light up, revealing Halley's face, with a single vote: guilty or not guilty.]

sORRy, H----ORRIBLE ABOMINATION OF NATURE!! AHAHAHA! IT'S TRUE!!...

[ichbindereinzelganger]

[Ugh she looks a mess, her face is covered in ink]

...

I guess that's not the worst thing she's called me...

[losergod]

Mister Bottson, what happens if we vote one way or the other? Before we make our decisions. Will anyone be hurt?

[strangerpeople]

[Hang on rumbling shit happening]

[vividsins]

...Why, exactly, are we voting? No murder has been committed as of yet. In fact, we have time to even reverse the damage done--especially with the extraordinary healing Miss Halley is capable of. But according to the rules of this place, Miss Halley has not yet committed a crime worthy of execution or even of voting.

[ Mostly he's tired of being told what the fuck to do. ]

[strangerpeople]

Yo, bUt H----ORRIBLE ABOMINATION OF NATURE!! AHAHAHA! IT'S TRUE!!--diD crEAte tHe wHole tHIng! If sHe hAd bEeN mOre sPecIFic, nONe of tHIs wOulD hAve hAPpENed, Yo?

[vividsins]

And?

[ SHRUG. ]

Marie's the one who thought up and then set up the death game. Not Halley.

[ He's a demon. He works on technicalities and details. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

[He might still be hugging the virus child.]

Can't we just kill the people who sent us here in the first place? Halley-chan had nothing to do with that.

[mementodagger]

I doubt they'd be so foolish as to show themselves, Nagisa. Not when we'd all like to have our pound of flesh from them.

[theserpentsmiles]

...I'm an assassin, remember? They don't need to show themselves, because neither will I.

[They'll never see it comiiiiiing...]

[ichbindereinzelganger]

...But I technically did have something to do with that. Me and my Dad.

[backuphero]

None of us is just the things our fathers did.

[He smiles sadly at her.]

I'm sorry. I was a real jerk.

[theserpentsmiles]

Not really. You created a situation, but you're not responsible for how they responded to it. You had nothing to do with them dragging people from other realities in to solve their problems for them.

[backuphero]

I was... I was beyond out of line, being cruel, but this...

Bottson. Come on. There has to be another option. You're a person too, right?

[strangerpeople]

[Bottson would be answering, but he's been interrupted by a sudden, abrupt rumble.]

? ? ?

[vividsins]

...I'm getting really tired of things unexpectedly going wrong.

[ Since they're free to move, he's going to go over to the external radar display thing to try and see if anything has happened that they can track! ]

[backuphero]

[That's... not good. But Jonathan is going to ignore it.]

It's like I told Nagisa. People are made of choices. And you... you've got to be one, by now. You've been through the same things we all have... so what choices do you want to make, now, with Marie gone?

[mementodagger]

Oh, now what??

[tiefleaf]

Hey, Beau.

I know Marie's fucked you over more than her death can really make up for, but is killing this kid really doing a good turn?

Seems to me that you're just dishing out what's been done to you.

[strangerpeople]

[Sirens begin to sound on full blast as red lights begin to flash as one phrase starts being screamed over the intercom system:]

INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!

[earietale]

[...quickly picks up laser machine gun again.]

I am not afraid to use this thing if I need to!

[fashionfever]

Not guilty! Halley did nothing wrong! She was just the tool to her dad and her aunt! And I don't know what half-human bodies are used to, but she probably needs serious help after all this smoking!

[The only reason she's not SLAMMING her hand on that button is because there might be an option to not vote at all]

[ichbindereinzelganger]

I can quit any time I want!!

[puff puff puff]

[fashionfever]

I really don't think it's how that works. Though obviously after ten thousand years you haven't gotten lung cancer...

this is not a gagtag he's that much of a NEET

[losergod]

Is there a way to verbally plus one a real life comment?