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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-04-18 10:57 am
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FIRST TRIAL

Alright, that seems like more than enough time to poke around the crime scene. Gather at the vault door, won’t you? It seems that for many of you it will be a short walk.

[ Once you’re all gathered at the vault door, Angel meets you there and quietly taps a keycard to the side of it. There’s an enormous whirring and grinding from inside as various mechanisms within the door move and whir - until with one last shuddering thud, the door starts to swing inwards, revealing a fully-glass tunnel leading off the side of the plateau the base is built on. Small lights built into the floor illuminate as you walk forward, until finally they light up an enormous elevator, perfectly capable of holding the twenty-four of you.

Angel comes too, putting a few numbers into a keypad just outside the door and inserting her card key once everyone is inside. She’ll gestures to get in if anyone seems unsure, but doesn’t really speak or enter the car herself. ]


Going down.

[ And down the elevator goes, leaving the lights of the facility behind - from here everyone can even see some parts of the facility you don’t have access to, it’s bigger than you realized. But it’s a long and uncomfortable ride to the depths, at least a minute or two before the elevator stops.

When the doors open, enough lights flash on to show that you’ve reached the ocean floor, some distance below even the depths you knew before. Lights around the outside of the massive glass dome you've found yourselves in illuminate the barren depths of the sea, with little if any ocean life to currently disrupt it.

At the top of the dome, among the lights, is an outward-facing circle of five or six different screens, each showing the telltale spiral that indicates The Professor is as present as he ever is.

Below them, of course, are the podiums, a circle of simple metal stands with some kind of video screen embedded into each, though they’re turned off for now. Each of your names is carved into one of them, though the podium constructed for Aela seems to have been just set to display a blank red light.

The screens lower down until they’re too close to eye level for anyone’s comfort. ]


Welcome to the trial room. You have as long as you need to discover who among you killed The Huntress. Once you have, I will explain further action. Take your places.

[ The screens rise back up - welcome to your first trial. ]
baitless: an expression that can serve as either deep frustration or, perhaps, some level of grief. who can say. (i am so tired all of the time.)

[personal profile] baitless 2020-04-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Must we drag this out, Lif? We all know the actual stakes now. I know you are no stranger to war, but surely this is different.
onefuture: (💀 Four.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-18 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

It's truly not. This is a battle of life and death, is it not?

And I have something to return to, and a task I must complete.
baitless: an expression that can serve as either deep frustration or, perhaps, some level of grief. who can say. (i am so tired all of the time.)

[personal profile] baitless 2020-04-18 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
...the difference is that you are fighting the wrong people here, Lif.

[he sighs, his brows furrowed.]

There must be a better way to handle this.
onefuture: (💀 Three.)

mods!

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-18 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
There's unfortunately never been a better way; it's one way forward, or else you undo everything that you've worked for.

It's a shame, but...I at least had to try.

[Lif seems...pleased, if anything.]

Perhaps we can put an end to this charade, then. Professor?
onefuture: (💀 Two.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-18 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they have their answer. May we draw this to a close, before anymore time is wasted?
archboxer: (3)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Seteth. A sinner will always turn to more sin if given the chance. We should not let our faith waver.
baitless: an expression that can serve as either deep frustration or, perhaps, some level of grief. who can say. (i am so tired all of the time.)

[personal profile] baitless 2020-04-18 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...He’s already marked for death, Rhea. It isn’t as though he’s going to be free to do as he wishes.

[he kind of wants to stare at the camera like he’s on the office?]
archboxer: (33)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[...look you know how she is about executions]

That does not absolve him.
baitless: an expression that can serve as either deep frustration or, perhaps, some level of grief. who can say. (i am so tired all of the time.)

[personal profile] baitless 2020-04-18 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m... not saying it does.
archboxer: (4)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...Of course.