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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2022-06-25 10:19 am
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FIRST TRIAL

[ After a while, once all the appropriate clues have been found, Mayor Fontaine calls out again over the speakers. ]

Alright, citizens, pack it in quick and head to the back of the Hall of the Founders. You have business to take care of.

[ When they do reach the Bathysphere station, Eleanor is manning the controls, gaze quiet and even over the crowd. The hatch at the front of the strange elevator is open, and everyone is gestured inside. A series of small submerisbles are lined up, waiting to be ridden. ]

Just hop into the bathyspheres one or two at a time, and the system will get you where you need to go.

[ It's a long, cramped ride from here, but Fontaine's word is true. At least you can tune into the radio in the pod?

The bathyspheres take you down until even the few lights of Rapture are out of sight, down until lights of a different kind are visible - the reds and blues of bioluminescent sea creatures, a little too out of your way to make out what they are, blending to a strange sort of not-quite-purple as the bathysphere reaches its final destination: a glass dome built into the sea floor, about the size of an average house.

As one by one the bathyspheres arrive carrying the new citizenry of New Rapture, less natural lights than those of the creatures around you begin to click on in the dome. In the center, most of the space is taken up by a circle of podiums, each with an image of one of you engraved into it.

A projector of some kind kicks on, which combined with the lighting allows for the familiar silhouette of Mayor Fontaine at his chair to appear on the side of the dome, watching over you. ]


Time to do your best to figure out who killed the Diamond in the Rough. And do yourselves a favor: keep it interesting. I'm here if you have any burning inquiries.

[ And here it is.

Welcome to your first trial. ]
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[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
H-how do I know you won't torment me the way he did? I can't... I can't go through that again!
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[personal profile] fuckingguy 2022-06-25 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ai yi yi... I cannot promise you I will not kill, Jonathan Harker. In the last few days, I have thought about it very much. If you wish to live in fear of me, then you should do it. But...

[ he makes the most miserable face in the world as he attempts to compose himself enough to say something marginally okay! ]

You have been kind to me, and a tolerable housemate. I don't know what you and Dracula have going on, and honestly, sounds pretty rude on his part -- but I would not change how things are now. What would I even get out of that?
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[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
... I do not know, although I'm afraid I don't quite comprehend why the Count has kept me alive for as long as he did, besides to turn me into one of his kind once he gets bored of me.

[He's quiet, unable to meet Nandor in the eye.]

But... you have been nothing but kind to me as well, and you are as much of a captive as I am.
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[personal profile] fuckingguy 2022-06-25 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Vampire or vampire's captive... or whatever the term for you is... we are all quite similar at the bottom of the ocean with our powers gone to shit. The only distinction of importance is that I must drink blood in order to live, and our asshole Mayor has provided no such thing.

... By the way, that is why I do not look so great right now. No other reasons. [ did being hungry make you forget how to brush your hair, dipshit ] And yes, I know he is hoping I am gonna go off the handle and eat one of you in a frenzy or something, but it will [ he straight-up punches his own chest to emphasize this and raises his voice ] not be occurring! Because I am an ancient warrior who has no wish to do harm to you, and fuck that guy.
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[personal profile] visiblepattern 2022-06-25 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[......]

...Do you have the control to do so nonlethally, at this point? I'm willing to offer that much, if necessary.
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[personal profile] fuckingguy 2022-06-25 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, at this point? Questionable. Not now, you know, but once you're actually...

[ Right, Jonathan is here, let's just elide over the "once you're actually drinking blood directly from a human being" part of this statement! ]

... It can be hard to stop.
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[personal profile] visiblepattern 2022-06-25 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...I understand. Though I do have a taser, for what it's worth.

[Mm, but there's things going on- ]

I'm willing to discuss it later, if you'd like.
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[personal profile] fuckingguy 2022-06-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this is... perhaps, not the time. [ ... ] I do appreciate the offer, Forrest. Truly.