final trial

[airlockedmods]

[With the announcement, the Champions can crowd together onto the teleporter with no issues. 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. It's so much emptier than it was just a few weeks ago that their voices echo when they try to speak up.

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. More portraits and names in blaring red have been added this week. Thomas MacLaine, the Champion Accomplice, Manaka Sajyou, the Champion Mother and finally Roxy Lalonde, the Champion of ████████.

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. He still has the eye patch and Rox watches them with keen interest as they enter.]

Welcome back, Champions. There are six of you here but, if things go correctly, only five of you will leave. I don't think I have to explain at this point what will happen if you choose wrong.

This shouldn't take long though. We all know what happened. Anticlimactic but not everything can be a good mystery I suppose. [She folds her arms across her chest, looking down on the Champions.] Let the trial begin.

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[playthedamncard]

And we can all tell you who isn't innocent--Rox Petuu and Blaze Dudely.

[in4apounding]

You guys-

[You're gonna make her cry and she can't even do that what the heck]

[lovecolored]

That's right! You two have blood on your hands! Chloe, Lucina, Tsurugi, Slaine, Korra, and Yuri! They're all dead because of you two.

[ fam has ur back, penny ]

[theoverseeing]

You don't think that you're responsible as well? For voting for Exalt, Scorpion, and War?

[lovecolored]

You pretty much forced our hands, bitch. If we just sat there twiddling our thumbs we'd die of starvation, or whatever.

[theoverseeing]

Impressive posturing. It looks like you're putting your title on proud display, Champion of Denial. It's not who cocks the gun who's guilty, but who pulled the trigger.

Or swung the shovel, in this case.

[le_mat]

Yeah, by your rules that's true. But we're done playing by them!

[theoverseeing]

[She laughs, harsh and cruel.]

And what do you plan to do about it? The teleporter won't work again until there's an execution.

[le_mat]

Oh, there's gonna be one alright.

[Still, he fears leaving just Bolton and Jamie alive like that- would CECE really lock them in to die? No... no he has to believe that without the Overseers she would spare them.]

[playthedamncard]

We're not talking about Roxy, you infantile creature.

We're talking about this entire gameshow you've been hosting. The motives you've been offering up. The gleeful killings and punishments for your ridiculous ratings. It doesn't matter if you're as trapped here as we are, if you're getting your orders from someone else, because it's still on your shoulders, every. single. one.

[in4apounding]

[She flinches a little, at those last words.]

I- I know what I've done. What that means. But I know what you've done, too- you set all this up, made us all play by your stupid rules, kept Zombina from what she needed to live- and- and- YOU THREATENED MY FRIENDS, YOU STUPID SOULLESS BITCH!

[That last part comes at a raw scream that's been building for close to a week.]