Fourth Trial

[bathymetric]

[ After the evidence (and what a large batch of evidence it is, this time) has been gathered up, after actually patiently waiting a longer time than usual to make sure everything's been grabbed, the speakers over New Rapture crackle to life. ]

Time's up, everyone. You know where to go.

[ The lower number of bathyspheres, as you descend, is starting to become really notable, isn't it? The descent is the same as ever, lower and lower into the sea. The bioluminescence of those slugs on the ocean floor is almost brighter today, somehow, and some of them have even crawled up the cliff face around you as you pass them.

The dome approaches, slowly as ever, gleaming red in the darkness. The bathyspheres land in a row, doors opening one by one to reveal the familiar sight of the trial room, three more podiums now darkened. ]

Take your places, ladies and gentlemen. You've got a doozy of a situation to discuss. Ass Man and Silver Fox are dead. You know what happens if you can't figure out whodunnit.

[ Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

[allatonce]

[not to be rude but:]

It's your attitude. Like, the meetings are helpful but because they're not helpful in the exact way you want them to be, you think they're a failure. You just kinda, like, freak out every time something happens that doesn't align perfectly with your perception of things which is a super rigid way to be. If you loosened up a little, it would probably help.

Cw suicidal ideation in action text

[hotpaprika]

So I am the biggest issue...

[He doesn't want to say "I'm better dead than alive" again but it seems plain on his face.]

[allatonce]

That is... not what I said, dude. Like at all. I'm saying that you have great idea, but you get so fucking caught up in everything going to the little plan you have in your head that you act like an asshole when things go a little bit different. It's a matter of changing your reactions, not you being the problem.