theairlock | 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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Could it be to identify which cookie or icing was drugged or not?

Could be. They're a couple of the most popular colors among human beings, too. How many heroes are red with their blue best friend?

That's true. Or it...could have been for sentimental reasons? But I'm just grasping at straws at that point.

Anyone who watched a classic anime or played a video game might be fond of those colors. So, like. Most of us.

...I guess if you're going through the trouble to grind up pills, making different colored icing isn't too much of a bother, either.

You know, that's true! Just like Akira and Joe! It's really a timeless thing. Though Junpei-kun's right, the colours could mean anything to any of us.