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.]
daughterofthemark: (12F. Daunting frozen path)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You remember Roland's trial, do you not? Or Sir Varric's. A "culprit" must go through the motions, even one who has no actual intention of escaping.
shikosuki: (fucking nag lol)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I mean though. We could be dealing with that again, not necessarily someone who's "in it to win it". Maybe if there was some condition like "hey if you succeed I'll also bring all the dead back!" or it's someone again who believes they can fix everything, then maybe I'd consider Misumaru's theory more seriously. But there wasn't so right now we don't know which it was. Ardyn could have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time for all we know right now.
Edited 2018-03-17 18:12 (UTC)