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unknownseas2020-05-02 12:24 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2020-05-02 12:24 am
THIRD TRIAL
If you have time for a grisly operation like that, I think you've had all the time you need to gather evidence. Please proceed to the door to the trial room elevator as quickly as possible.
[ Once you arrive, it's the same song and dance as the last two weeks. Angel helps you all get through the vault door and into the elevator, and watches as you all make the slow descent to the dome below. Standing in the elevator is more than a comfortable fit now, even for the largest among you. A few more of you lost and there'll be room enough to pace in here.
But maybe you don't want to think about that.
The dome of the trial room is the same as it's been, the only change the dull red glow coming from the two newly-unoccupied podiums. The screens above flick on, and lower down to make an address. ]
You know the score by now. Find Seteth's killer and you can all go free. Fool them all, killer, and you'll have your life and your reward. Other than that, whatever happens here is between all of you. Call for me if you need anything.
[ The screens rise again, leaving you here.
Welcome to your third trial. ]
[ Once you arrive, it's the same song and dance as the last two weeks. Angel helps you all get through the vault door and into the elevator, and watches as you all make the slow descent to the dome below. Standing in the elevator is more than a comfortable fit now, even for the largest among you. A few more of you lost and there'll be room enough to pace in here.
But maybe you don't want to think about that.
The dome of the trial room is the same as it's been, the only change the dull red glow coming from the two newly-unoccupied podiums. The screens above flick on, and lower down to make an address. ]
You know the score by now. Find Seteth's killer and you can all go free. Fool them all, killer, and you'll have your life and your reward. Other than that, whatever happens here is between all of you. Call for me if you need anything.
[ The screens rise again, leaving you here.
Welcome to your third trial. ]
EXECUTION - QUE SERA SERA
[ The screens lower, and the room blacks out. It takes a few moments, this time, for the image to cut in on the screen, but when it does this might be the most ambitious production The Professor has put on for one of your killers yet. There’s a whole quaint small town on the screen, the camera passing through it as a light scattering of snow starts to fall. The shot wouldn’t be out of place in a film, albeit a much more heartwarming one than what you know is in store here.
Zelos stands outside an old stone building - it looks like it might be some sort of chapel or cathedral - glancing around with… it’s definitely recognition in his eyes, isn’t it? He’s not alone, either - there are a number of people scattered here, most all looking at him in some mix of shock and… whatever else. Anger, maybe. A woman gasps.
The camera turns just so, and suddenly there’s a woman, certainly not the owner of the high-pitched gasp, standing in front of Zelos now. He… doesn’t seem to know how to respond to her presence here, even as she wraps him in a calm embrace.
The rest of the scene is silent, notable in that there appears to be a woman being wrestled to the ground behind them as some of the other members of the crowd cry out and retreat from whatever the specifics of the incident are. It’s hard to tell - the camera takes sharp focus on Zelos and this woman. ]
... Mother?
[ The woman’s face remains stony, impassive. Then suddenly, blood begins to leak from her mouth, first one small rivulet, then two. Her eyes become glassy, distant. Finally, as the camera turns around her, it’s clear she’s suffered some kind of catastrophic wound to the back. ]
If only…
[ The camera doesn’t pan back to her face, but you do see Zelos’s reaction to it. He tries to back away, but the woman’s grip on him remains tight. ]
... you had never been born.
[ Wherever the blade came from, the splatter into the snow behind Zelos shows it found its mark. The camera hangs just behind the woman still, and the other end of the blade emerges from her back, like the belated cause of the wound.
It’s clear that Zelos Wlder is dead.
The Professor’s voice is… more somber than usual when he addresses you after. No levity, it’s just quiet and even as the lights raise and the elevator opens. ]
You did well, believe it or not.
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[Anna turns and walks to the elevator without a word. What else could go wrong today.]