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

[garudynamic]

I sure would.

[amygdalae]

On it.

[In fact, he's already done that. Rest assured, Stan.]

[trustharder]

[There's a lot of the Johto/Kanto pokemon in there, as well as a massive amount of Legendaries. Like. An alarming amount of Legendaries.]

[isafraid]

You think he'd still wear the boots?

[seventeen people are dead]

[cherryblooded]

...These are people from previous rounds, I think? So it's not as though she would have been selected with Mettaton in mind. But the information on her could still be useful if he needed to sway him to do anything in particular.

Coincidence.

[goodforsomething]

That's what I'm sayin'. [He gestures towards Mouri.] It's startin' to sound like the Inspector was right with the whole Matrix thing.

[notjustawriter]

....I guess that explains that.

[Though he doesn't really think phones work that way. But this technology is beyond him anyway.]

[captainobnoxious]

[...... OHHHH.

OOOOOOHHHHH OH OHHHHH.

OHHH GODS SHE THINKS SHE KNOWS.]

Well, let me put it this way -- we had three people who were offered to spy on us this round, didn't we? And if the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, maybe they were offered it too.

Only reason I can imagine them being singled out like that. If they were special somehow.

[And that's damn special enough, isn't it?]

[amygdalae]

The important thing to note, mostly, is that not anybody would be able to program an AI like this so easily.

[sleepingkogoro]

That is a relief! But if the worlds weren't destroyed at all then everything the Kingmaker had offered was a lie. He was not beyond lying to get us to kill people, it seems.

[Mouri scowls once he sees the note about the photographs they had received that showed another Vault]

A really cruel liar. There were no loved ones in another place, at least not as far as the Kingmaker knows.

[notjustawriter]

It would explain the floors blinkin' into existence, wouldn't it?

[isafraid]

Hang on. You're trying to say that we're inside a machine.....?

[penduli]

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

You don't actually know what a raptor is, do you.

[captainobnoxious]

The doctor didn't have a choice, really, that's where all of the Underground's techy stuff is. Because it's hot. And heat has power.

[Iceland is proof of that.]

[cherryblooded]

[...Well, he's relieved about the worlds thing, and his daughter not being in a vault, but... No, he'll think about that later.]

The drugs keeping us under. That's current? So we're not conscious?

[captainobnoxious]

Absolutely.

[cherryblooded]

Essentially speaking.

[sleepingkogoro]

I think the problem would be why we are not in a real world. What I mean to ask is why we would accept to be in here.

Do you remember that very first dream? The one about feeling safe and all that? I don't think if we had been kidnapped against our will we would have felt that. It's possible we were lied to, but I have to wonder what exactly we were told.

[amygdalae]

Somehow I highly doubt its mere coincidence.

[That's two people from the same world, from perhaps countless other worlds out there.]

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

It's kinda cute. Can I have it?

[pokexplorer]

[Sweet Arceus whose Pokedex even is this.]

I thought as much...

[Colress finally speaks up, looking up from the device.]

This is a Pokedex. It is not from Unova, however. It appears to be an older model from another region.

[He frowns, really conflicted about the discovery.]

That means that others from my world have been brought here as well...

[cherryblooded]

Drugs can do that to you, the ones Black mentioned. Or, it's possible that we did whatever we did to get here willingly?

[amygdalae]

[...well, it is certainly something that would make sense.]

Yes... that could very well be the case.

[So these three were the moles for this particular game, then?]

[notjustawriter]

I never believed him about that.

[Gabriel sounds relieved.]

But..... originally created to "deal with bad people", huh? It sure sounds like that got corrupted fast.

[cherryblooded]

Well, you have a point. Unless anyone else has doubled up... Though, it would be impossible to tell just from their appearances if they're from the same world, wouldn't it? Worlds are big.