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

[sastruga]

I'm not taking it personally, for the record. So, it was for survival... I thought it might be that. That someone might be trying to go for it... before someone else could.

[She's calm about it, anyway, as if Penelope hadn't just tried to condemn all of them for her own sake.]

...You thought it would work?

[prompocalypse]

I didn't have a choice but to believe it could.

[specialyellthing]

You had a choice, sis.

I've rescued people from hell before. [DC COMICS..............]

[hotpaprika]

[He shoots her a look

He won't say anything but she better try helping to save the others first.]

[specialyellthing]

[it was sweet, wonderful baby Tora Olafsdotte, who was saved from hell with the help of my airlocked round 2 character----


dc comics, y'all]

[prompocalypse]

Nobody would rescue me.

I was already a monster when I was alive. Why would they?

[inaclearing]

...no one deserves that. It's too much.

[Brett looks sort of sickened by the description of the torture! Despite, you know, All Of This!]

[specialyellthing]

I don't believe in leavin anyone behind.

If you go back there, I'll try an find out what my girls can do.

[sastruga]

...I asked Morishima-san this, so... I feel like I should give you the same courtesy. Even though I...

[Ah... is she upset? When she thinks about Obi...]

...Is there anything you want done? Anything I can do for you, after you're gone?

[prompocalypse]

Well, if you don't manage to destroy the game at this rate and kill Fontaine, I'll be pissed.

[There's a lot of things she wants to ask, but it risks countering this mask like she's not desperately afraid of a thousand things, like she's not a scared little girl doomed to literal hell.

So instead she gives Mafuyu a smile.]

Just don't forget about us, I suppose. That's it.

[sastruga]

...Alright.

I can promise you that much. Definitely.