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unknownseas2020-04-18 10:57 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2020-04-18 10:57 am
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. ]
[ 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. ]
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I don't believe there was a single bit of honor involved in what traspired.
[Lif's arms are still firmly crossed, but he's still perhaps surprisingly rigid, all considered.]
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[God, he has just decided to go This Fuckin' Guy all over this MTB.]
Aela's dead. You think you deserve to die for it - the culprit deserves whatever they get, wasn't it? But here you are, arguing with us anyway.
What do you want, Lif? You want to find some magical way for your parents and your sister to end up like you, is that it? Something brought you back. Why not them?
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[...This would look very convincing if you could actually look at people when you're talking, Lif. Either way, he's avoiding Birkin's gaze, trying very hard to keep that calm.]
And why shouldn't I? You lot spent hours meandering about like a bunch of chickens with their head cut off. Quite frankly, if the evidence hadn't pointed in my direction, this wouldn't be happening.
[...]
As for the rest? Well...I had already found it, prior to meeting all of you here.
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Are you certain you don't regret it?
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That sees Lif hesitate, but no.
No hesitation.]
As certain as can be; you can be assured of that.
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... Alright, then.
[ But she sure sounds miserable. ]
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But fine, keep trying to screw us around. We can stand here all day and try to solve your stupid puzzle regarding how you did it. At the end of the day, you're still dying. Again.
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...You know what? Good. If that's the mindset you continue to go into these trials with, perhaps you'll find your way out of this damned place in due time.
It's perhaps an example all of them could use. No mercy, no forgiveness.
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[ Her voice is hard and she's not looking at...really anyone but Lif. ]
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What does it matter? I killed a by all rights innocent woman. Whether or not I knew that doesn't factor into any of this.
[Yow, that's stated with some remarkable disdain.]
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[ More forceful. ]
And I'd imagine to a couple other people here. The least you can do is answer that.
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[ don't worry, she's picking up on that disdain ]
But I don't like to be told how to feel. I'd like to make my own decisions, and that includes how much to be angry.
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[He is still all for NO MERCY NO FORGIVENESS but at the same time.]
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Already planning on it.
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No. I didn't know up until it was announced to us.
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Was that so hard? [ There's a tinge of disappointment in her question. ] ...Bye, Lif.
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I'd say it's a shame that it has to involve stepping over you, but after all this? It's really not. You understand.
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[...]
Hopefully you do make it to the end, then. It'd be a shame, otherwise.
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[Are those her words or some scripture? It could be either by the coldness in her tone.]
No matter how long it took, the end will be the same for you.
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[Lif has nothing more to lose, at this point.]
...But I do suppose you're right. I don't deserve anything; I haven't in years.
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[You were one of the few that gave information to. How dare.]
Your fate was set down even before we came here. That much is true.