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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: (24)

[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to try! A child is going to get murdered if I don't try!
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[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Son of a...

[This is the last thing he wanted to do.

In a haze of panic, frenzied and uncomfortable in the midst of the recent confession and his own lingering feelings of responsibility, he's gonna slap Jonathan straight across the face. Hard!
]

S-shut up, man!
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[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[The hit connects, and Jonathan falls to the floor in recoil. He wasn't out cold, he could still get up if he wanted to, but he doesn't. There was nothing he could do but lay there and sob.

He was alone

He was as alone here as he was in Castle Dracula.]
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[personal profile] specialyellthing 2022-06-25 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Boys!

Get it together. You’re supposed to be men! [Adults. They need to hold it together right now, to not look so scared and broken in front of the actual kids.

She doesn’t know if Jonathan can hear her right now. She’s seen that look on soldiers before. But she’s comfortable snapping orders, and it’s the only thing she can do right now, outside of standing as rigid as she can.]
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[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately he's ignoring Zinda outright, with little to no acknowledgement of her words.

What he does feel is guilty, absolutely.
]
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[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jonathan doesn't hear her.]
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[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's just gonna grunt and throw one of Jonathan's arms over his shoulder if he'll let him...! Forrest is good at injuries, maybe he can help.]
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[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jonathan actually draws his arm away from Dandy.]

Please... leave me be...
bootyhunter: (127)

[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Ouch.

Well, he deserved that!
]

We don't gotta talk.

[He will step back, but he's not leaving.]

But I'd like to make sure you get that looked at, okay? It's my fault! I know.
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[personal profile] hotpaprika 2022-06-25 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I have faced worse horrors.

[He moves to stand back up and walk behind his podium, almost robotic. Looking dead inside.]
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[personal profile] bootyhunter 2022-06-25 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'll watch him go but Dandy's got his work cut out for him...]
Edited 2022-06-25 21:49 (UTC)