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

Voting Time

[heroantagonist]

[A round of claps echo through the trial room. It's your lovable captain.]

Bravo. Real gripping stuff here, guys. Love, murder, even more murder. It's been a blast... too bad it can't last forever.

[Everyone's podiums light up.]

Oh, and here's just a friendly reminder: make sure to vote for all guilty parties.

[dokkalfheimr]

[...Shit.]

...Plumeria. He...means Plumeria.

[dokkalfheimr]

[She'll put her own votes in eventually.]

> Plumeria
> Freyja

[leaveittomother]

Freyja and Plumeria.

Can you punish the dead, then?

[Or is it just to be thorough?]

[heroantagonist]

Not really the point. It's all about getting the right answer on the test, and only putting half the answer down isn't going to get you the full mark.

[leaveittomother]

Well, I thought that was the case but it's always good to ask.

[ahelpingpaw]

[Well...here it had to be done. Welp]

Plumeria
Freyja

[Welp, as expected: once another Friday that was worse than the last. Of course]

...Lady Freyja, could you come here for a moment? Just...here to my podium.

[leaveittomother]

[Reika will helpfully move out of the way to allow this.]

[dokkalfheimr]

...Of course, Filbo.

[She'll make her way over, then.]

[ahelpingpaw]

[Filbo just...whispers to her, because really, this is as private of a moment as it can get]

...I already had to say goodbye to friends once, one of them being, you know, someone I truly miss every day. Now I have to say goodbye to someone I didn't know for nearly as long, but ended meaning just as much to me. I never got to say anything to Lizbert before she...well. Stayed behind. And now that I have you here and at least there's a moment to say something to you I-I just dunno what to say because it doesn't seem enough.

[He sighs. He just...forces himself to compress everything into a few words he truly means:]

Thank you for having been there for me so many times.

[jibunwo]

>Plumeria
>Freyja

You can hate me for this if you like. But I'm the one that failed, not you.

[cethflayn]

[No, you're a garbage man, Jack]

>Plumeria
>Freyja

[guffawsungraciously]

[well that took a fuckin turn. sigh.

he feels kind of weird about it all still, but.]

>Plumeria
>Freyja

[sivard]

[...Screw this. He hates this crap. How much longer will it go on?]

>Freyja
>Plumeria

[silentscout]

Freyja
Plumeria

[And then he's going to use the rest of the time now to steel himself and hopefully build up enough nerves to handle the execution. After everything Freyja did for them, it would be disrespectful to cower in fear again.]

[cethflayn]

[Flayn did her vote, she never knows what to do when it comes to this. It's horrible.

Can she come sit with you, Lalli.]

[scythegun]

Plumeria
Freyja

[It absolutely sucks that it's come to this, but in the end...]

Murder is murder.

[...was that a flawless nic cage impression from the wicker man?? sure was, don't worry about it.]

[dokkalfheimr]

[...YEAGER

DON'T YOU DARE MAKE HER LAUGH RIGHT NOW YOU ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE

she appreciates it okay

like

a lot]

[deathmagnetic]

[ Well, it was time to settle things, so...

> Plumeria
> Freyja ]

[ltcommandroid]

> Plumeria
> Freyja

I would have liked to have that concert. [But, nonetheless.]

[dokkalfheimr]

...Likewise, Data. Thank you for everything.

[scouserer]

> Plumeria
> Freyja

[Constantine pauses, glancing between the voting panel and Freyja.]

I can't fault you for trying.

[magycks]

>Plumeria
>Freyja

... So, again, who's going to take the strawberry? Sort of figured it would be Freyja, but we've seen how that goes.

[ahelpingpaw]

...I guess that responsibility goes to me.

[Welp time to go into the fruit jail, B.B. Sorry Plumeria]

[queceracera]

[Scott just looks down to the podium for a really long moment. If this were a comic, it'd be like three panels worth of him just looking down at the podium.]

>FREYJA
>PLUMERIA

[From where he's sitting on Scott's shoulders, Gideon meows and rubs up against Scott's cheek.]

Yeah. Yeah, we can eat strawberries and be sad later.