SECOND TRIAL

[bathymetric]

[ After sufficient time has passed, and you're all as ready to avenge dear Obi as you've ever been, Mayor Fontaine speaks. ]

Alright, that oughta do it. Pack up the evidence and head to the bathyspheres, same as last week.

[ There's yet again a line of spherical submersibles back there, ready to take off as the citizens of New Rapture climb aboard one or two at a time. And one at a time the bathyspheres descend into the abyss below New Rapture, deeper and deeper, once again to the dome on the seafloor, lit all around by bio-luminescent... slugs, of some kind? They're a little closer today.

The ring of podiums still sits in the center, just like last week. Two more podiums are going to stand empty. Two more dead. By the end of the day, best case scenario? It'll be three.

The projector clicks on. Mayor Fontaine is as here as he's gonna be. ]

You all know why you're here. Night Knight is dead. And I know plenty of you liked him alright, so don't let him down, hm? Or do. I'm here if you have questions.

[ Welcome to your second trial. ]

Comments

[prompocalypse]

You're just begging to die next, aren't you?

[Said while looking at her nails.]

[vholran]

I've no desire to heed the words of a weak little girl who thinks she can command someone with her mere words.

[prompocalypse]

Mm. You clearly don't get how this game works, do you?

[vholran]

I know very well how this game works.

And so I ask you this: If someone is suspicious, why wouldn't I talk about it just because someone has simply told me not to?

[prompocalypse]

You don't. It's cute that you think you do, though. You've definitely read the rules, at least.

Whether you want to interrogate someone you find suspicious is your call. [She's being deliberately coy, but her words aren't a threat per se. They're not structured like one.]

[vholran]

As if you understand the game any better.

[ They are not, but he does recall the first comment she made to him that had a vein of being one if someone looked at it a certain way. ]

Then, if you state that it is my call, you understand your words are mere idle prattle.