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airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-10-28 12:21 pm
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first trial

[With the announcement, the Champions are free to decide amongst themselves what order the groups leave in. Once that's done the process of teleporting is automatic and happens in the blink of an eye. Once second they're in the center of the cafeteria before a soft blue light surrounds them and then they're standing in the middle of a circle of podiums.

The room itself it the same shiny, chrome-covered atrocity as most of the rest of the ship save for the sections of floor that aren't the teleporter: those are thick clear glass that show nothing but empty space and stars beneath the Champions' feet. As for the podiums they're the same sort of garish chrome with a digital screen facing toward the center of the circle. The screens each have a name and title associated with a Champion written in green block letters, all save for Chloe Price, the Champion of Max Caulfield, Miki Naoki, the Champion Support and Chitose Karasuma, the Champion of Mediocrity. Theirs are a striking red and, floating above their podiums, are greyscale portraits framed in some kind of bold, mechanical-looking frame.

The Overseers are waiting when they all arrive, standing on a floating platform just high enough to be out of reach and back far enough toward a far wall to have a full view of the courtroom. Both are dressed well, Rox in a pressed grey dress jacket and skirt and Blaze in a black suit with the sleeves rolled up to expose his numerous tattoos.Rox is again the one who speaks up.]


Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom! Twenty of you have entered, but - in the best case scenario - only nineteen of you will leave. The goal here is to compile the evidence that you've gathered and figure out who the killer is. Once you think you have an answer, we'll call a vote where you'll use the podium in front of you to vote on the title of the Champion who you all agree has broken the peace. If you're correct, the culprit will be executed and the rest of you will be allowed to go back upstairs. If you're wrong, however, the killer goes free and the rest of you take the punishment in their place.

There's no time limit, but we reserve the right to call for a vote if things drag on too long. Now let the first trial begin!
photoshooter: (SAD 📷 Sad Prompto in snow)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
If you won't do it to save yourself, will you do it to save everyone else here, 'Kira?
challengesfate: (what...who...?)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-29 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
...

[She frowns, but nods.]

That's important. But I implore you to choose the stage upon which you fight with care.
challengesfate: (not used to uncertainty)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-29 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's not. It's not, but -

[But don't you dare die for her sake. Don't do it.]
le_mat: <user name="tanabata"> (34)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-10-29 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
SHE MIGHT NOT CARE BUT I DO!!

[his voice cracks]

I'll have to go back out to that cage and know I let her win! That'll just happen again and I won't be able to stop it!

Just like I couldn't stop Chloe. Like I couldn't stop Miki...
titularly: (totty is so whacked out on percocet)

[personal profile] titularly 2017-10-29 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Well now that the vote is in, Osomatsu's gonna wrap his other arm around his brother, and he pulls him close to his chest.. it's something both of them needed after this mess.]
photoshooter: (WRIST 📷 Think there's a flaw in my code)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He makes a choked noise and covers his eyes. The strength he had's been all cried out; they're only weak tears, now, from a weak, weak boy.]
theworldsliveliestcorpse: Zombina has two guns (ZOMBINA'S GOTTA GUN! TWO OF THEM!)

[personal profile] theworldsliveliestcorpse 2017-10-29 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Normally I'd be right behind ya. Buut...

[Zombina frowns and looks at everyone around them.]

Ya can do more alive than dead. In case ya haven't noticed, ya've been an pretty important leader figure for us. There ain't too many of us that could step up and take your place.

[Appeal with logic!]
playthedamncard: (you. you go first.)

[personal profile] playthedamncard 2017-10-29 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[His eyes narrow (even further, somehow), but he inclines his head.]

There. Was a straightforward answer so hard?
batfortheprincess: (♦ is there no other choice?)

[personal profile] batfortheprincess 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes a while before he looks at the podium. It takes even longer for him to make a decision, but they don't really have many choices here. And so.]

> Champion Exalt
> Champion Scorpion


...I'm sorry. [He's not strong enough to do anything else.]
discalibur: (059)

[personal profile] discalibur 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
But I...

[He doesn't really have it in him to argue, though. He's... too exhausted by all of this. It hardly even feels real. Like a nightmare he's going to wake up from any second now.

...

He just sighs and looks at the floor.]
in4apounding: (n o p e)

[personal profile] in4apounding 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yuri, please. You can be kind of a jerk, but don't let yourself die here too.
challengesfate: (is that so?)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[No. No, he's so strong. Strong, and beautiful, and important.

She would say it forever if she could.]


...Don't follow me, alright? Not for many years to come. Save your realm, and grow old, and I will wait for you.
discalibur: (054)

[personal profile] discalibur 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[he's really not gonna fight a hug at this point, he could use one]
playthedamncard: (at least he doesn't have green hair)

[personal profile] playthedamncard 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Lucina.

[But what is there to say? She didn't do this deliberately. She didn't know what she was capable of, but this...?

Kaiba hasn't shown off how dramatic and room-commanding and scene-stealing he can be, so he marches from his podium, over to the center of the circle, paying no mind to the vastness of space beneath him. His gestures are severe and sharp and purposeful as he addresses the room.]


She's absolutely right. This game, this trap, was built with an endgame in mind: to crown one Ultimate Champion, while the rest suffer and die. That is the fate we've been given. That we are to become desperate and paranoid, to shed blood for fun, as if we are nothing more than mistreated dogs, ready to tear out throats of those we would otherwise help.

But they do not get to tell us what the future holds! There is no seeing into our lives a day, a week, a month ahead, and they cannot declare to know how this will end. No one truly has that power, not to tell you what to do with your lives!

We make our own futures! We carve out our own destinies! We take fate, and we grind it into the dust of the past!

We will defy this fate, defy the Overseers, defy the rules, and we will live our lives knowing we bested what we were told was inevitable. We will rise up to be better than they expect us to be! We will rise!
le_mat: (14)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-10-29 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
...

[he doesn't remember it. Not yet. But he made that choice once already.

What's right, or the life of touring your friends. He had chosen to fight even though it was pointless.

But Akira as he is now hasn't had that choice yet. So instead he just trembles]
andjerry: (this is fine.)

i'm an asshole and hijacking

[personal profile] andjerry 2017-10-29 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[god he has been having enough survivor's guilt as is and this is making it worse - they can't let another person die]

Who's going to leave here, thinking "I couldn't stop Akira"?
theoverseeing: (pic#11786433)

[personal profile] theoverseeing 2017-10-29 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry you're incapable of understanding implications. [She tilts her head slightly.] But you're young, aren't you? Your brain probably isn't developed enough.
theworldsliveliestcorpse: Zombina in her casual outfit (Colored Casual Outfit)

[personal profile] theworldsliveliestcorpse 2017-10-29 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hell yes!

[Zombina does a fist pump.]

Ya tell it ta them Kaiba-kun!
photoshooter: (BITE FIST 📷 Um um um)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Another grief-noise escapes him and he presses both hands over his face. How can he tell her he already messed it up, somehow, some way he doesn't understand? How can he explain what happened on the train when he doesn't know himself?]

I--I--I, I'll t-try...
photoshooter: (BEAT 📷 You worried about me?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay. I won't make... I voted so... so some of you don't have to.
challengesfate: (looking back on it)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-29 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
...Yes?

[Ah, wait. He's getting his monologue on, and Lucina will listen. And when he's done? She bows her head in respect.]

...May Naga guide your efforts, here and beyond.
lovecolored: ( 6u (eternal land) | pixiv id 94883 ) (☆ champion of EXPLOSIONS)

[personal profile] lovecolored 2017-10-29 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Marisa was about ready to scream back, probably something about "who give's a rat's ass?", but Thomas interjecting gives her a few moments to think. While he talks, she just keeps her fists clenched and tries to stop breathing so heavily. ]

...Akira. If you do this, you're leavin' every single one of us behind. We're your friends. How do you think we're all gonna feel if we just stand here and let you kill yourself?
le_mat: (21)

[personal profile] le_mat 2017-10-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[he reels like Thomas just slapped him, turning with his eyes wide]

Thomas-san...
photoshooter: (BREAK 📷 [FIGHTING BACK TEARS])

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I wont... let anyone else give me a nickname. Not until we... m-meet up again.
challengesfate: (bruised not broken)

[personal profile] challengesfate 2017-10-29 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
...

[I love you.]

I believe in you.

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