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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-04-25 02:19 am
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SECOND TRIAL

Time's up, boys and girls. Please gather up your evidence and make your way to the vault door.

[ The process of heading to the elevator and crowding in remains the same as last week - Angel leads you all to the elevator car, then stays behind as you make your slow descent to the dome below. You might not even notice if you aren't paying attention, but... the cart is already less crowded than it was last week. You certainly won't be able to avoid noticing it if your numbers dwindle too much further than this.

When the doors open on the trial room, it's just as bleak a place as last week. ]


Take your places, won't you? And this time, you all know what's at stake. No more... funny business.

[The number of podiums displaying that red light is higher now - Damien, Lif, and Piers are all represented by blank spots now, no tasteful covers or anything normal to mark their passing, just a red glow and a gap in your number.

Cheery!

The screens raise up to the ceiling to give you all room to see, and the Professor's final words before the trial begins ring out: ]


Find the killer, leave alive. And killer? Try a little harder to stop them from doing that than the last one in your shoes. Call out for me if you require anything.

[ Welcome to your second trial. ]
precognit: (05)

[personal profile] precognit 2020-04-25 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, fuck. Alice steels herself.]

An immortal.

[It's true!]
fivestagegod: (10. do you need love)

[personal profile] fivestagegod 2020-04-25 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, Alice.

[Using your name, since that's apparently what got you all huffy in the first place.]

How'd you get that way? If you don't mind my asking.
precognit: (14)

[personal profile] precognit 2020-04-25 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her mouth is a steely line.]

I...I'm not sure. I don't remember it.

[Also true.]

I was in a hospital, at the time. ...An asylum. Please, I really don't want to talk about this.

[Even eighty-odd years later, it's still painful, because she doesn't remember any of it. Everything she knows comes from her own research.]
fivestagegod: (10. do you need love)

[personal profile] fivestagegod 2020-04-25 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Then maybe don't get my attention and practically beg to be asked about it next time. I'll let it go for now, but I imagine the others are going to have questions for you now that I've started.

[Especially since they're going on about vampires and dead apostles and shit up there.]
precognit: (07)

[personal profile] precognit 2020-04-25 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's silent, after that.]
nothingcanstop: (i never imagined such wonder)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-25 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Della tries to catch her eye. Sorry, Alice. He's sort of like that, it seems. ]
bogwife: Oh, Death (The earth and worms both have a claim)

[personal profile] bogwife 2020-04-25 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Zerinda shoots Alice a worried look. She might not know the full context of what Alice had been through, or the details of her immortality (which is a whole other kettle of fish she can wrap her brain around later) but she can understand the implications of an asylum.]
ladygeryon: (glare)

[personal profile] ladygeryon 2020-04-25 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
William. [Nira turns from comforting Slade to glare at him from her podium.]
fivestagegod: (10. do you need love)

[personal profile] fivestagegod 2020-04-25 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Scold me all you want. It's a valid line of questioning and you know it, and she practically invited it.
ladygeryon: (glare)

[personal profile] ladygeryon 2020-04-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that was a reasonable line of questioning. But now you can apologize for bringing up a bad memory in the process. [Mom Voice: on.]
fivestagegod: (10. do you need love)

[personal profile] fivestagegod 2020-04-25 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
How about I don't. I'm not a kid, Nira, you can't send me to my room if I refuse.
ladygeryon: (doubt)

[personal profile] ladygeryon 2020-04-25 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She just gives him a look like she's saying she can try. But she'll drop it for now. Comforting distressed badger is more important.]