airlockedmods: (P.A.L.)
airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2018-03-17 01:22 pm
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Fifth Trial

[You get a little time after your investigation is over, but not too long. PAL gets bored easily and doesn't like to be kept waiting, after all.

When everyone has gathered at the elevators, the one going down turns on automatically. It...it looks like you're taking a leap of faith into an elevator shaft, not gonna lie. But the first person to step in finds that it's a carefully-balanced anti-gravity field made to just shoot you down and deposit you gently at the end of a long hallway. Like a walk-through aquarium, the walls and ceiling are all made of thick glass, giving you an even better view of the stars outside.

You're led to a wide-open area, empty except for a circle of podiums in its center. They've changed from last week, with the three previously empty podiums replaces with greyscale portraits of everyone you've lost this time around, including Ardyn and the Doctor. If anyone remembers where Jamie's portrait was in the simulation, however, that spot is now where Xander is meant to stand. The walls here are equally transparent, and they seem to have lines of large hatches going along them, as if this is where one might park one's small short-journey craft when getting ready to go on vacation to a galaxy far far away. Shame you don't know anything about those.

You already know what you're here to do. You'd best be getting along with it.]
ratherdoweddings: (to the earth)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Between this and Junpei, she carefully nods. She steps out of the way.]

I'm so sorry.
kingshaming: (56)

cw: drug overdose

[personal profile] kingshaming 2018-03-17 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Xander startles, shocked]

Jane... this would be less painful then PAL trotting out puppet versions of his brothers.

...I am not the Overseer anymore, I can't do for him what I did for Soma. I'm sorry...
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="bibinella" site="tumblr.com"> (We weren't meant to be happy.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-03-17 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up! Shut up, I don't want any more dying wishes, how many more people do I have to carry across the grave?!
cyan_maid: (You are EMBARRASSING me!)

cw: drug overdose

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She really doesn't know where it came from, and...it doesn't seem like she noticed what she said. But now her heart and her head hurt like a motherfucker.]

I - I know, but - but he...he shouldn't have to...n-not like this!
shikosuki: (choro469)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-17 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He flinches but then just... shuts up. ]
kingshaming: (pic#12047048)

cw: drug overdose

[personal profile] kingshaming 2018-03-17 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I know... none of this should be allowed.
cyan_maid: (NO NO NO)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[She just. Lets out a weak, tired sound and kicks her podium. And then swears, because she threw her shoes at Junpei and that hurts like a motherfucker.]
daughterofthemark: (12F. Daunting frozen path)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

Perhaps not, then. I only know how I felt one week ago, and for the week after that.
shikosuki: (choro830)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-17 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He approaches the cookies but... he takes the one that still has a the outline of a cute red heart. Red like the hoodie he left in the memorial room just with morning with a pear offering. Red like the big brother he was always bickering with but who it felt like he used to spend all his time with when they still all wearing the exact same thing. A red heart with a smear of blue from the painful one he always used to ignore, but was still sensitive and just wanted to please...

"Stay strong" huh... ]


...Arianna-chan?
daughterofthemark: (22F. Denial on pain of death)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...Sir Choromatsu?

[She makes sure to stand up a little straighter. Be the Champion Sovereign.]
shikosuki: (yet more crying because i need it)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-17 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He beckons her over and then... holds out the bookmark from Yuuri and the drawing of his brothers.

Tears are falling down his face. ]


Here. Please.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="fullmetalhitman" site="tumblr.com"> (Bummer.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-03-17 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
...It does look similar.
daughterofthemark: (12F. Daunting frozen path)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[She walks over, trying to measure her pace carefully. Not so quickly that she's hurrying, not so slowly as to drag things out.

...oh.

She accepts them both, taking one in each hand.

Then she takes another step forward and hugs him.]


misanthropicprinciple: <user name="tsourekia" site="tumblr.com"> (Tsun tsun tsun)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-03-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[VENGEANCE IS HIS]
cyan_maid: (BLARGH WHAT)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[FUCK OFF JUNPEI YOU'RE A BIG BABY]
daughterofthemark: (25F. The overlord of daybreak)

cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If it truly is the same... if you find yourself looking at a knife and wondering... please remember that all of us here care greatly for you. No matter how you may feel, you are still part of a family.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="soncschmarn" site="tumblr.com"> (Fine.)

cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-03-17 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I was only thinking about it because...

[Because of the motive. Because of Yuuri.]
shikosuki: (crybaby crybaby)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-17 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's the hug that turns his quiet steady tears into a full on sobbing breakdown. First Pyrrha, now Arianna. ]

I'm sorry.
daughterofthemark: (27F. Imprisoned by God's keys)

cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
...

We should speak of this later.
daughterofthemark: (15F. Gateway to sorrow)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-18 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Arianna can't accept the apology. Not on behalf of all these people who've been hurt worse than she was. But she can hold him, squeeze him tightly, make sure he knows he isn't alone.]
shikosuki: (rip in peace my ass)

cw: drug overdose and suicide from here on out honestly

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-18 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ And that's good. Because right now this one particular thought keeps coming to mind and he can't explain why, one that he finds himself whispering: ]

I don't want to die alone.

[ Is that why he couldn't bring himself to just eat these himself last night? Alone in his bedroom with not even the plushies he'd made in the simulation to keep him company anymore. Only a photo album to look through and reminisce on happier times. Is that why? Even though he left Ardyn to die alone and probably deserves to be executed in whatever way PAL wants?

Why? Why are those the words coming to mind just now?

He pulls back from Arianna and... finally eats the whole cookie.

It's just one. It only needs to be one. It only took Ardyn one with his thin frame and Choromatsu himself is even smaller and thinner, no taller than Arianna next to him. He swallows thickly, absently thinking to himself that it's no wonder Ardyn knew right away: they taste like shit.

It won't take long now. ]
induality: (pic#6503517)

[personal profile] induality 2018-03-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[...something had to snap her out of it. This... this was it.]

Y-you idiot! You...

[Her hands are shaking but for a moment she grabs both of his and holds them tightly.]

...you're not alone. You never were-- you...
cyan_maid: Jane crying (Not happy tears...)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-18 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Fuck.

Fuck, they. They were going to sit here and let him just. Fuck.]


...Is there anything we need to know? Anything else you want to tell us before...
ratherdoweddings: (someday you will)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-18 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Choromatsu-san... I'm so sorry. I'm sorry you were ever pushed to this. But we're going to make sure everything... that everyone's okay, even if it takes us another week or two or six more. One day, there will be a week where no one dies. There will be a time when we'll break out permanently. And I won't let what happened to Ardyn-san or you come to nothing!
daughterofthemark: (25F. The overlord of daybreak)

cw: drug overdose and suicide

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-18 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[He won't be alone. She stays where she is, and doesn't look away.]

Tell Clarith and... no, tell everyone we love them, and we haven't given up on them.

[She smiles weakly. He's the most qualified person here for delivering that message, isn't he?]

That is true of you as well.

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