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: (there's usually lots to learn)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yurika sets two bags on her podium. One contains a bunch of plate shards, the other, crushed cookies.]

We all have to be prepared. The motive was bad enough -- it would affect anyone in this room, and for good reason -- but we also have to think of the victim. I think Ardyn-san was chosen on purpose. He was someone we all trusted; last week proved that without a doubt. Not to mention that, even if we are united, we're all still following our own leaders, and the mansion group is the largest now -- losing Ardyn-san means leaving the biggest subsection of our group without one. Whoever's behind this one was desperate to win.

The announcement called it an overdose, but I think the drug might've been slipped to him in food. Specifically, these cookies. I found a plate of cookies tossed into the trash in the VIP lounge with red and blue icing, breaking the plate and wrecking the cookies.
Edited 2018-03-17 17:32 (UTC)
tokencanadian: (Down)

[personal profile] tokencanadian 2018-03-17 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[That ride is not what Pyrrha was expecting, but then again, nothing here was. So, she jumps, and she thankfully doesn't die. And soon enough, they're at the trial place, with the starts outside looking even prettier than they were in the simulation.

Pyrrha walks up to her podium, already feeling the strain of today, and fully aware that it will likely only get worse as the day goes on. She breaths in, readying herself. They have to do this, even in real life. And they have to do it for Ardyn, he deserves that much.

He deserved way more than this.
]

Let's... go over evidence. Back in the restaurant... at Ardyn's table, I found two teacups, the one in front of Ardyn was empty, but the one opposite him was almost full. Also opposite him at the table, the other chair was knocked over.

[She breaths, again.]

It seems like he was meeting someone last night.
motherfucking_ghost: (welcome to every god damn day)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-03-17 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Church has to be rounded up to go, but he goes ever reluctantly. On his necklace, along with the crown charm and two matched rings, another ring is joined--the Ring of the Lucii (or one of them, anyway).

He's in his Kingsglaive jacket and has a black chocobo plush set on his podium. And says nothing.]
cyan_maid: (Unsure...)

cw: drugs

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a brief moment where Jane notices who's replaced the occupant of the podium across from her...and her heart tugs, and cracks a little, but it does not break, because there's someone beside her whose heart is in pieces, and may never recover.

Time to get to work.

Since Arianna would have the tea kettle, honey, and the mortar and pestle, Jane sets down the two bags of icing and the empty bottle of oxycodone.]


There were a lot of things left out in the kitchen that I believe...could be part of what's happened. Arianna has some of it, too, she was with me - I think someone baked cookies and iced them as part of their plan to...to. Well. Do what happened.

[And she holds up the empty oxy bottle.] And they used a whole container of oxycodone to do it. So...please, if there's other food evidence, I beg you not to put it in your mouth.
cyan_maid: (Unsure over here)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Red and blue icing? Like...

[Jane holds up the two icing bags she's brought with her.]

Would the color match these, Yurika?
misanthropicprinciple: (Default)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-03-17 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
There was red icing on the floor in the restaurant. And crumbs. Little pieces of ceramic. Could be from a broken plate.
cyan_maid: (Melancholic)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's okay. They got this. Jane gives him a gentle pat on the arm as she passes to go to her podium, face set grimly, evidence in her arms.]
ratherdoweddings: (and i've learned these lessons well)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so!

[She brings the bag of cookies over. Does it?]
daughterofthemark: (22F. Denial on pain of death)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arianna interestingly has very little trouble with the elevator. It's just one more flavor of weird shit. After setting her half of Jane's evidence on her podium, she she pulls the ribbon out of her (well, Chitanda's) uniform and sets about... tying Syo's hands behind her back?]
kingshaming: (Default)

[personal profile] kingshaming 2018-03-17 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Xander is quiet, being at a podium for the first time in a long while.

...it wouldn't be so bad, if not for the fact that Jamie's portrait is still right there. He stares at it, then carefully moves it to the side enough to fit his boxy self in the space.]


Was this really... necessary, PAL?
ratherdoweddings: (don't ever think you're alone)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So the plate and the cookies were broken there, then just moved to the VIP lounge to cover their tracks.
cyan_maid: (Give me all of the bacon and eggs you ha)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whenever Yurika is done with her icing comparison, Jane holds up the red icing bag.]

Would the color of this match the one you saw?
ratherdoweddings: (there are these common)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
PAL doesn't seem the type to be too nice.
shikosuki: (mood)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-03-17 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well that seems to really aggravate him ]

You really think so? Was there even really anything to "win" this time?

That'd be low. Everyone liked Ardyn... who would even think to stoop that low that they'd target him specifically?

[ he's so tired of this week after week ]
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cyan_maid: Jane is neutral or unsure (Um...)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Uuh.]
everylittlesecret: (♪ See the smoke)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-03-17 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She might be tired, but damn, Yurika, you ruffled her feathers a bit.]

I wouldn't call him my leader...
ratherdoweddings: (i see my present partner)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, but it seems likely. Besides, anyone here would have a reason to try and save their friends, and we already know that the trial process is mandatory.
ratherdoweddings: (and tentacles)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he had a lot of people who believed in him and would follow him, didn't he?
daughterofthemark: (12F. Daunting frozen path)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[look do you want more mid-trial murder attempts]
cyan_maid: (What am I looking at here)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2018-03-17 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fair.]

When you're done, did you want to go over what we found, or...
ratherdoweddings: (that although sometimes this is so)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2018-03-17 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't worry! I didn't test any. They were in the garbage, that's just gross!
tokencanadian: (Noticing/What)

[personal profile] tokencanadian 2018-03-17 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[you're doing great sweetie

....both of you
]
daughterofthemark: (22F. Denial on pain of death)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-03-17 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Jane and I found a tea kettle in the kitchen. Unlike the other dishes, it hadn't been cleaned, and it still smells like tea.
everylittlesecret: (♪ Oh no)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-03-17 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but he didn't like being called leader. It was.... shoved on him, and I see Noctis as more of a leader than I ever did Ardyn.

[Sorry, Ardyn, she loves you, but it's the truth to her.]

Besides, the man I would have gladly followed anywhere has been gone before we even got here.

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