unknownseas | SEVENTH TRIAL

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SEVENTH TRIAL

[ After a while, Davy Jones comes and collects you all again. It's a much quicker trip than he's ever had to take for you all before. You all fit so easily into the elevator in the theatre now, don't you?

As he plays the song that takes you down, even Jones seems tired. But the elevator certainly isn't, moving just as dramatically into the depths of the ship as it ever has. You now know all the floors it passes on its trip down to the trial room, don't you?

And none of you even know that this is your last ride down. The end is coming. But that's for later, and not quite yet for all of you.

The crew of the Dutchman is... different, somehow, this week. There are more figures aboard, and they're all singing, well. Maybe Scott was right, that first week. ]

Ye know what to do, passengers.

[ Jones moves to the wall to look out at his ship, scowling.

The podiums are waiting.

Welcome to your seventh trial.

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There is not a single person I would be comfortable with for this, here or back home.

[Look, he knows, he knows, but...]

[well, nice to know you think of him as a person]

Very well. But you know that it is a point against you.

[data honey, of course you're a person.

Anyway, given the Magica shitshow happening over there...]

Fine. I'd prefer not to hold things up any longer than necessary and given the way this is going, I may as well get it over with now. If we could make this quick, then?

[He's pretty isolated over here anyway, so it should be fine.]

I can capture visual data extremely quickly.

[Like, just a glance is good enough, he can always examine it at his leisure from his databanks.]

Thank you.

[Once Data's over here and he's turned around so none of you nosy jerks can get a good look, here we go!! It's pretty obvious why none of you have ever seen him in anything less than a full suit - the thing attached to his chest is absolutely not removable. The red gemstone is glowing too, but somehow that's fine under clothes, please don't ask me how that works, Vesperia is dumb.

Anyway, the more important thing here is that while he's definitely scarred, those are all old injuries beneath the device and there are no new injuries or bruises.]

I take it that will do?

[Well, you're lucky Data's the one doing this; he's the one person who will have absolutely no visible reaction to any of that!]

It will, thank you. [For everyone else's benefit:] There are no fresh injuries or bruises.

[This is exactly why he was willing to let Data do it!! Thank you for being a bro, Data. Anyway he's getting his suit back on properly and not fielding any questions about that right now, thank you all very much!!!]