Taking Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And a while after that strange, dark floor is accessed, after you've had time to look things over and get some idea of what's happening...well. There won't be any sort of official announcement to tell you to get downstairs, nor will there be a personal invitation for you to do so. Instead, the doors at the end of the corridor (were they there before? You find that you don't remember. It doesn't matter anymore, though-) slide open, as they always do, and the elevator ride to the courtroom is probably the first familiar thing that's happened all day. It's smooth and quick, though it seems to take a bit longer than it usually does. And when the doors open at the end of the line, the courtroom looks different. The dark, weirdly cylindrical room is largely the same in and of itself, but the usual twenty-seven podium circle is gone; instead, there's a smaller setup in the center of the room - ten podiums total, and you'll likely find the way your spots have been distributed to be very familiar indeed. Of further notice is the balcony - there's a structure that wasn't there before in view of the courtroom, situated high above, barred-in by a railing that'd probably be at about waist-height on your average person; there's no one up there just yet, however. There are so few of you now. It seems that today there are no speeches to give; maybe the Kingmaker is absent, maybe he just doesn' have anything to say. Either way, however, the implication in the fact that you're here at all is clear. For one last time, make the guilty take responsibility.

Comments

[cherryblooded]

Or some other type of dinosaur.

[isafraid]

So they're fictional then? [As far as he knows.] I guess it's just another thing from the future I'm not meant to know about then.

[Maybe that'll at least help sooth his headache. If he's so in over his head, should he make the attempt to understand in the first place?]

...Still, can't help but feel sorry for her.

[goodforsomething]

Nah, she's not scary enough to be a raptor!

[captainobnoxious]

She lived in a volcano. Does that help?

[cherryblooded]

She's important for some reason. Maybe as a bargaining chip? If Mettaton didn't behave.

[notjustawriter]

Why would he want the game to end? There's too many of us left to crown a "king", isn't there?

[cherryblooded]

I'll join you in that.

[cherryblooded]

Any particular reason why?

[isafraid]

A bloody dinosaur made a robot?

[These worlds, man.]

[notjustawriter]

I thought so, too.

It also can't make any calls.

[garudynamic]

...yeah point. And she doesn't even have feathers.

[Said like he actually knew that before Black told him]

[garudynamic]

... she looks kinda dorky. A dorkasaur.

[amygdalae]

[An AI, huh...

It's a hard topic for Bruce, considering... well. His recent(?) history with it.]

...she certainly seems to be an incredibly complex AI, if that's the case. I only know one person in my world who could have managed to program something to that level.

[cherryblooded]

It doesn't need to, if it's the Kingmaker's, since he doesn't call us.

[garudynamic]

And she didn't even make him a dinosaur robot. Lame.

[captainobnoxious]

I wish. Everything in there was just-- fake.

[She really, really wishes they could've.]

[goodforsomething]

Pretty sure they shouldn't be able to do stuff in the real world without controllin' a machine. [Stan shrugs.] All I know about that's from movies though.

[cherryblooded]

[He'd tell you not to insult the probably dead, but...]

...Can't deny it.

[isafraid]

A dinosaur robot entertainer.

[......]

Can't say I wouldn't want to see that.

Mods...?

[pokexplorer]

[Once it's in his hands, he silently examines the exterior first, inspecting how it opens and everything.

He'll go ahead and power it on. Thank goodness it can actually turn on!

While it may not be super useful information for what's going on, is there at least any information at all inside?]

[amygdalae]

It doesn't make sense though. From what it looks like she's the only one any of us are able to recognize.

[And only because Mettaton talked about her.]

If she was one for Mettaton, then what about the rest of us?

[cherryblooded]

About that. What's to say that we're in the real world?

[sleepingkogoro]

That is supervillains, not mad scientists.

[goodforsomething]

Ford's never done that, but hell, he probably could if he wanted.

[Fuckin' Ford, always being so smart...]

[penduli]

[ Yes, yes, he's got notes, just— give him a second to gently tear them out of his sketchbook so they're easier to pass around. Here we go. ]

It's on the notes too, at the bottom, but I just want to say that it doesn't seem like our worlds are actually destroyed. [ So. That should be a relief for some people, if there was still anyone worried. ...it's nice to clear the air with that, too. ]

To me, it seems like this is all a sort of... test, I suppose, to see who'd become the next gamerunner. I assume if the victor decides to go home instead of staying, the old king just runs another one to find someone else to take their place.

[ Hummmm. ]