FINAL TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

FINAL TRIAL

[The Strangers manage to escape. By the time anyone has realized they have left, the Analemma is already on a course to a new destination, one not intended by their Conductor-who was certainly surprised to find their ride gone, hours later.

Cardia has turned off radar and other equipment that would allow anyone to find the train easily. There is no barrier around this train, so everyone can see the Clockwork Sun as it gets closer and closer.

They aren't going to London, obviously. Cardia manages to explain that, originally, the Throne of Hours was located there, but after Victoria became Twice-Renewed, the Throne was ordered moved closer to the Sun. Now, it is connected to the station called Sunspur-a desolate place, formerly an exhibition hall, where only the Sun's engineers and wayward captains now go. No one dares to cross the bridge that connects the Throne to it, when they are there.

That will change, but not immediately. Even at top speed, it will take several hours for the train to reach its destination. Cardia suggests everyone relax in the Lounge of this new train. Apparently, this one was going to pick up its newest passengers very shortly, and so the bar and kitchens are stocked with food and drink, at least.

There is much to talk about. Much to look through, and much to consider. The past four weeks have been difficult to process, but the evidence from Perdurance has been especially daunting. It only shows just how stark the situation is-and it's up to the Strangers to figure out just what they will do when they do, at last, confront Her Enduring Majesty.
After all.

Whatever happens, a reckoning cannot be postponed. Not indefinitely. And the bill is almost due...]





[It's time! The objectives are simple in this trial: untangle the story of this place and decide what to ultimately do when they finally confront Victoria, the Mastermind of the Little Courtesy! It will not be easy and the truth, as ever, will not be a light one.

Will they triumph? Will they go home? What else might happen? What else could be in store? There's only way to find out!

Have fun, and good luck! And remember-

All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.]

Comments

[eternaldivide]

[ ... hm. ]

Sounds similar to the floating girl I saw a few weeks back. Also small and wearing a black hood. She asked me if I was enjoying myself and if I missed my world. Told her no and her response was...

[ Give him a moment a lot happened the last few weeks including many many years of memories coming back. ]

I'll just stop here and tell you ... you don't have to worry about either of them soon. Not for much longer.

... Something like that.

[katzenpfote]

She's definitely not our ally... or she thinks of herself as one and thinks a mercy kill is more kind.

[eternaldivide]

... Between a mercy kill and the damnation like we saw prior I'd take the former. Considering where Towa saw her, I wouldn't be surprised if she had meant more the latter.

After all, once we were the Sun's best friends would we have really given thought to anything beyond?

[ The guy he spoke to certainly didn't seem to. ]

[katzenpfote]

... Frankly, that's another reason I insisted on taking the back. If anyone with green eyes stopped us, I was going to kill them. It's better than being mind controlled.

[eternaldivide]

... Figures. But who am I to argue or disagree when I'm but a child.

[ Someone is still 100% bitter over that thanks. ]

[katzenpfote]

I never said you were a child. But I don't want to see you become a murderer if you don't have to. It has nothing to do with age.

[eternaldivide]

[ Mithos just laughs at that. ]

You know nothing. But ... my intentions that time were actually not to kill anyone. Ironic, isn't it?

Regardless, we have other matters we need to discuss right now.

[technicolourdifficulties]

[Something about that tone... It could be just the way teenagers have that tendency to want to be treated as older than they are, and yet...]

...And yet your tone suggests otherwise.

[eternaldivide]

[ Mithos simply ... hums at that. ]

My age doesn't matter right now, does it? There's other things that need to be discussed.

[higanbana]

[boy u have some 'splainin to do later. But short of a confused glance at him, Ris isn't going to say anything.]

[eternaldivide]

[ Don't worry Ris. He'll tell you everything ... once they settle this and hopefully get out alive. ]

[overworker]

It maybe be one and the same. It certainly seems like she's been watching us for a long time.

And it sounds as though she knows more about us than even we can. But then... if she had some part in bringing us here, we may have been watched even before this began.

[eternaldivide]

It's possible. Which means that my initial thought of her might've been wrong. I thought she was another creature from a weft, as the others I encountered seemed to have been.

... Although you did meet her in a building full of weftlanders. So ... she may have been watching us but I'm unsure if she has anything involved with either of our kidnappings or participation in these affairs.