Fifth Trial

[airlockedmods]

[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.]

Comments

ONE LAST WARNING FOR OVERDOSE/SUICIDE

[shikosuki]

[ OH...

Well a cheek kiss from a girl he likes as he dies in her arms is pretty much AS BEST OF A WAY TO GO AS HE COULD EVER IMAGINE SO.

He nods slowly, shutting his eyes. ]

Okay... I will...

...S...Sorry...

[ He goes very still then, falling asleep to thoughts of seeing his older brothers soon after god knows how long, his breathing getting more and more shallow...

It takes a little while still, but there's a lot in those little cookies, (and who knows with space drugs) and sure enough his breathing eventually just... stops.

Choromatsu Matsuno is dead. ]

[airlockedmods]

Well. That is certainly a unique situation.

[daughterofthemark]

[don't you fucking]

[airlockedmods]

Should we bother with a vote? Do we now ask "Who killed Choromatsu Matsuno?" Should I execute him again, just to be sure?

Hm....

[kingshaming]

Let it lie, PAL. He is dead, the culprit was discovered.

[airlockedmods]

[PAL goes silent, seemingly to think for a very long time.]

Very well. The elevators have been turned on to return you to your main quarters.

But not because you told me to, Xander.

[daughterofthemark]

[............]

As before.

[kingshaming]

Regardless, thank you for not forcing this to go on further.

[ratherdoweddings]

Thank you, PAL. For that, at least, but at least try and lay off Xander-san.

[grumble]

[tokencanadian]

[She hates you.

so

so much]

[cyan_maid]

[Glaring at that fucking robot body

A boy is dead you prick]

[daughterofthemark]

[...

Arianna closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath.]

[induality]

[Fukawa is... uncomfortably familiar with the feeling of death. She can feel it set in and for a moment she's incredibly still. Until the very end... until she knew he wasn't going to see, she holds in her tears. Only when he's gone does she take a shuddering breath and let herself grieve.

This wasn't fair. He didn't deserve this end. Neither of them did.

But she hadn't been able to do anything. And she might not be able to the next time or the time after that.

Yet for both of them... for the wishes they left her with... she has to keep fighting.

She holds him for a moment, before gently lying him on the ground.]

...you were never useless. Not to anyone. You were really special...