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

[notjustawriter]

That'd fit with the whole "it ain't real" thing, wouldn't it?

[penduli]

That's what the— what she said. "Being used to keep you under." [ ...that's lovely. ]

[goodforsomething]

Just our minds. Kinda like a dream, but all hooked into a computer.

[cherryblooded]

...So multiple people coming from the same world isn't uncommon.

[Sorry, Bruce. Especially sorry, Colress.]

[cherryblooded]

Lends credence to the virtual reality theory.

[garudynamic]

But what's the point of passing the mantle on over and over?

[cherryblooded]

Would explain a lot of things. How holograms can kill people, how AIs can use whiteboards, how rooms can move and disappear.

[notjustawriter]

Were we tryin' to accomplish something?

[goodforsomething]

I was right - I am gonna be pissed about this.

[pokexplorer]

How unfortunate. I would have liked to know what the physical forms were comprised of.

[Like, maybe they weren't literal copies? Maybe they had totally different insides.

...Well, guess that'll have to be a mystery for now.]

[garudynamic]

It's a dinosaur.

[penduli]

Miss Sigrun's mentioned that Glory's definition of bad people were people who thought they could kill anyone. [ ...and not have any repercussions, probably. ] It's a noble thought, but yes, it's one that... probably didn't last long.

[amygdalae]

If you want to go with the many-worlds interpretation, there can essentially be limitless amounts of worlds and realities out there.

[isafraid]

[.............................

he's so confused.]

Then... all we have to do is wake up then! Right?

[cherryblooded]

If I was, I certainly don't remember it. I wouldn't have left my wife and daughter behind to go play a fake murder game.

...But it's also possible there's more I don't remember.

[captainobnoxious]

[Possibly, though... you know, grain of salt.]

Wouldn't know unless we asked them. And we can't exactly ask them anything. Even if they're not dead, they're not here.

[isafraid]

That... that's just madness!

[amygdalae]

[Sorry, Colress...]

Would you say they're still in production - or available - where you come from?

[cherryblooded]

That doesn't mean the Kingmaker has access to all of them.

[cherryblooded]

It's not something impossible on my world. Few people would know how, but it can be done.

[goodforsomething]

It'd take a lot to get me to go for somethin' like this, but it ain't impossible.

Why us, though? There's plenty of people in my world who'd do better at the whole Matrix thing.

[notjustawriter]

....Christ.

I doubt that lasted long at all.

[garudynamic]

If we all had something bad we did it'd make sense with how the game started but... a lot of us didn't. I mean, could you see Megumi doing anything that would get her in some awful punishment game?

[amygdalae]

[It certainly would be something if they could get them here.]

I know.

[Pretty much a dead end then, for now.]

[amygdalae]

But we have no proof to say that can't not get to all of them, either.