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

[jibunwo]

...No. Time and again we've established that the person who commits the act is the guilty one, except in cases of forced compulsion.

But you feel as though you killed someone, don't you?

[dokkalfheimr]

Why would I? And before you tell me it's because I haven't been forthcoming about this, it's because I imagined you would accuse me of having done something.

[jibunwo]

No, that's not it at all. It has nothing to do with how forthcoming you are or aren't today.

You're not just 'complicit in the deaths at worst', you're complicit in Plumeria's death at worst. Are you really going to act as though you feel no sense of remorse for that?

[sivard]

You mean so much to her, the idea is...

[dokkalfheimr]

Of course I do, but I can hate myself all I want later in the evening. It's more important to be alive to do that then than it is to self-flagellate now.

[sivard]

...I think I understand.

[jibunwo]

It is.

But as I've said time and again, I intend to make sure as many of us live through this as possible.

[If that was exact wording, Freyja, don't think he didn't notice it.]

[dokkalfheimr]

And by voting for me, you will not ensure that.

[magycks]

She's not acting like she doesn't, just like she's not responsible by the rules of this trial. Unless you're trying to guilt her into spilling more than she intended, in which case carry on.

[dokkalfheimr]

[YOU'RE A PAL, MAGICA]