FIFTH TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ It's not terribly long, once everything has been found, before Davy Jones heads out to round you all up once more and take you into the theatre. At least plenty of you are around the same area, so it probably doesn't take terribly long.

The ride down to the trial room is the same as ever - a blast of the organ, a slow descent. It's really starting to become clear, though, just how your numbers are decreasing. You're already down three, counting the absence of Chloe, potentially more when you come back up.

The crew of the Dutchman is singing as Jones lets you out into the trial room. ]

To business, passengers. I am about if you need guidance.

[ The circle of podiums is less populated than ever. So many of you are islands now, so to speak.

The song dies down, the waters quiet.

Welcome to your fifth trial.. ]

Comments

[ahelpingpaw]

Jack wouldn't allow that. He wants us dead, it's...it's really unlikely he'd just undo it for a motive, even if it's one person.

[That guy is as untrustworthy as it gets, really]

[magycks]

The motive itself is a promise he never intended to keep, Filbo. Do catch up.

[ahelpingpaw]

Exactly! We all know that. Plumeria probably would have known that. I...I really doubt she'd have trusted anything her motive showed, that's--that's what I'm trying to say.

[If Plumeria for some reason believed Jack would do it, she probably wouldn't hope it was the Freyja standing here, he thinks. Possibly]

[deathmagnetic]

Do we know that she wouldn't?

[ahelpingpaw]

W-We don't, but...

[...well, in the end they don't know for sure. Oh well]

[dokkalfheimr]

And yet Plumeria and Decus were out last night, and now they're dead. Either they believed it or they didn't - which is it?

[magycks]

I might have agreed with you two weeks ago. But apparently a bunch of photoshopped pictures were enough to send both of those idiots on the prowl, regardless of the results, so who knows?

Anyway, she didn't doubt his power, just his sincerity. Maybe she decided it didn't matter.