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theairlock2018-03-17 01:22 pm
airlockedmods) wrote in theairlock2018-03-17 01:22 pm
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.]
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.]
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I just... I don't want you to take the chance... There must be a better way to find out what happened than tasting poison!
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She knows it's painkillers. She knows.]
We don't have to know for 100% certainty, Nari. Please, please. We can look at other evidence, we... we can look at the death from another angle, we can do anything that isn't this...
[She leans on her podium. Oh god.]
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[Can she just sit the rest of this trial out at this rate?]
Someone here killed a man that was kind to me from the beginning. Someone who I thought of as a dad. And everyone here is too damn scared to check all the angles to see what may have been used to kill when clearly all evidence needs to be tested... I'm just trying to find out who killed Ardyn.
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[She is pleading with you, Nari, on the verge of tears]
We'll find out who did it, I swear! But not through this way!
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[Just going to sit behind her podium, cover her ears, and just try and not panic anymore than she is.]
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you do that, babe. she's gonna just. lean on her podium and try not to cry so loudly. This is great.]