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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. ]
mouflon: USED WITH PERMISSION; DO NOT TAKE (We're entangling our organs together)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-04-18 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as she stops trying to shut down the lightest inquiry, we're good.
archboxer: (3)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Pardon me for having loyalty.

[Unlike you.]
mouflon: art by pixiv id=17968 (wet with foaming love juice)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-04-18 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Loyalty isn't going to help us right now, so will you just shut up already? Della is right, all you're doing is wasting our time.
nothingcanstop: (they said)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Quit it! You may know Seteth, but none of us do. It makes sense for her to at least wonder about it.

[ To Rin: ] Just like it makes sense for Rhea to defend her friend. We can find a medium without insulting each other over things that don't matter to the damn murder trial.
mouflon: USED WITH PERMISSION; DO NOT TAKE (hammering her into the wall like a nail)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-04-18 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
She's the one who dragged history into it. I think it's pretty ridiculous you're asking me to be the bigger person here, but fine. I'll hold my nose.
nothingcanstop: (bixa orellana)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Just-- just don't sink to that level, alright?
mouflon: (penetrate her flowery gate.)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-04-18 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
No promises. But I'll at least keep it to myself until we're done with this, okay?
nothingcanstop: (he said "just see what happens")

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That's all I can ask.
archboxer: (3)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
He's--

[She stops herself. She'll just say something she'll regret later. No use getting mad over a dumb blasphemer. She clears her throat.]

Very well. The Goddess does prefer peace, after all.
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 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Rhea, please. I am sure that we will find out the actual culprit in due time. I can handle a bit of suspicion, particularly given the circumstances.
archboxer: (3)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I will hold my tongue for now.

[...look, you'd do the same for me. Hopefully.]
baitless: trumpets.... (Default)

[personal profile] baitless 2020-04-18 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[relieved sigh...]

Thank you.
hardnosed: (pic#13920893)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she's definitely not looking smug at all of this, it's fine ]
archboxer: (3)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least she wasn't yelling in someone's ear.]