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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. ]
inaclearing: ([ hackberry ])

[personal profile] inaclearing 2022-06-25 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Brett's still kneeling in front of Hodaka. His expression shutters, hands going very still, and that's - that's it, really. Tears stolen in swift, private moments - ]

Breathe, Hodaka. It's... [...] Can you tell us what happened? You were out, last night. Did you go to get food?
withagun: (i need to know ☂️)

cw: child abuse allusions

[personal profile] withagun 2022-06-25 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head. He keeps jerking away, waiting for...something that doesn't come. No one here is his— ]

I didn't... I couldn't... I went to the... Sh-she was sleeping...and- it was my fault she's here. It was my fault again. I had to... Nothing- I'm sorry. I'm sorry...! Adaman-senpai...!! I'm sorry!
bootyhunter: (impasse)

[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Her bein' here isn't your goddamn fault, kiddo.

[This is the Worst, he hates it! He hates it very much.]

It's that Mayor bastard's. Don't get it twisted.
withagun: (it's unrequited‚ we know)

[personal profile] withagun 2022-06-25 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If I wasn't- here...! She wouldn't be! It's not fair... It's not fair, it's not fair...!
bootyhunter: (117)

[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't fair.

But it's not fair to you either, baby.
withagun: (we grow up only to forget)

[personal profile] withagun 2022-06-25 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ But that doesn't mean he isn't responsible, does it?

It's the sort of philosophical discussion he'd have, were he not a complete mess right now. ]
inaclearing: ([ hackberry ])

[personal profile] inaclearing 2022-06-25 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
...it wasn't your fault. It wasn't the first time, and it isn't now. Alright? You can't - control what other people choose to do. Not Fontaine, and not her.
withagun: (that i can do?)

[personal profile] withagun 2022-06-25 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
She would've... Everyone was so- everyone was so afraid, but- we couldn't... I didn't know what to do... I couldn't let it happen, I couldn't- let her be a sacrifice again...!
inaclearing: ([ green alder ])

[personal profile] inaclearing 2022-06-25 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...you've interrupted a human sacrifice.

[He remembers the profiles. He copied them all out in his book, the one still sitting on the floor next to him now. But Brett's speaking without thinking.]

No, I'm sorry. You don't need to talk about that.
withagun: (if there's still anything 💧)

[personal profile] withagun 2022-06-25 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He probably can't. He's just a mess of crying now. ]