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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. ]
hotpaprika: (3)

cw suicidal ideation?

[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Six...?

[Jonathan's voice is absolutely pathetic, as he looks at him in pure sorrow. A thought crosses his mind, and he's unsure if he's unable to voice this, but...]

In that case... I have a request.

When this happens again, if anyone needs to kill someone, I ask of you to go after me instead of any of the children here. My days have already been numbered, and I would be happier knowing that I have died instead of living thanks to a child's murder.
Edited 2022-06-25 20:38 (UTC)
sixthnonsense: (☄ wake me up inside)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-25 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jesus, dude. Hagakure's not sure what to do with that for a moment.]

Don't offer yourself up, man... That's just perpetuating this, y'know?
hotpaprika: (10)

[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It has already been made abundantly clear that I cannot stop any of this. I might as well give the younger ones here a small chance of survival if I cannot be of use.

[He is literally 21 years old.]
sixthnonsense: (☄ i'm not saying it was aliens...)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-25 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, we're the same age. We're barely adults.

[He continues to ignore what his profile says.]
hotpaprika: (18)

[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
There are still those younger than us, correct?

Like I said, I have been made to cover up my own murder, so my days have quite literally been numbered. If I am to die, I'd rather die sacrificing myself.
sixthnonsense: (☄ worst. vision. ever.)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-25 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[If there's anything that Hagakure's learned today, it's that Jonathan Harker cannot be persuaded. So, with a sigh of resignation,]

Suit yourself, man.
kninja: (WRATH(ΦωΦ)Piss in MY cornflakes?!)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-25 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Your Honor, please!

We've got one death on our hands and another looming ahead. Just--not now, okay? What we're trying to do right now is keep people alive.
hotpaprika: (22)

[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
But it won't stop. Hagakure said that this happened six times before. If... if my days have already been numbered, it would be best to have myself be a sacrifice in the future so that other, younger citizens may live.
kninja: (SLIP(ΦωΦ)Give 'em the slip.)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-25 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
That ain't the kinda sacrifice that does anyone any good. If you wanna do something worthwhile, you find who's important to you and you live to fight for them.
hotpaprika: (3)

[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He looks at Obi, full of sadness.]

But... I know I am to never be with my Mina again, even if I were to believe Fontaine's promise. Who am I supposed to live for?
kninja: (SLANT(ΦωΦ)Reserving judgment.)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Obi looks a little pained at that. He looks around at all twenty-four--all twenty-three people left around him--and then shakes his head.]

I can't tell you that, Your Honor. It's something you gotta find for yourself. And when you do, you keep it. Okay?
giddyundertaker: (Looking for some better place?)

[personal profile] giddyundertaker 2022-06-25 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't you dare.

[ He sounds serious about that. ]

There are a number of reasons a choice like that could go wrong. For instance... Our mayor here may punish us all for letting the true culprit get away for any reason, for one. [ Which was confirmed a short while later. ]