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

[amygdalae]

Its weird that the phone was blank, though.

[Why even leave it there at all?]

[notjustawriter]

I thought so, too.

It also can't make any calls.

[cherryblooded]

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

[notjustawriter]

....I guess that explains that.

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

[garudynamic]

... we can try calling it?

PAGING KINGMAKER(????)

[cherryblooded]

That's actually a good idea.

[Cherryblod pulls out his phone and dials up the Kingmaker. Ring ring ring?]

[trustharder]

[Nope.]

[cherryblooded]

It's not ringing.

[There go his hopes for the Kingmaker having an embarrassing ringtone.]

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

Can it text?

texting... kingmaker?

[cherryblooded]

All the folders are empty so I doubt it, but I'll try.

[He texts something like 'if you can read this, you are a dick, and also if you can't read this']

[trustharder]

[...Well, wouldn't you know it, there's a text notif that pops up.]

[cherryblooded]

Why does he have separate phones for calling and texting? How obnoxious do you have to be with your phones?

[Reading his own text. Now he's the dick.]

[captainobnoxious]

You don't usually have two separate ones for it?

[cherryblooded]

No. Usually one phone does both.

[captainobnoxious]

Huh. I wonder if the oldworlder's stuff worked like that too. We just send in reports by radio or letter, if it's close enough. Maybe his calling thing's like that?

[amygdalae]

They're all just put together into one phone, usually.

[Though of course, that was when technology had developed enough to that point.]

[isafraid]

If you did, wouldn't we have two separate ones ourselves?

[captainobnoxious]

Do you think so? I mean, I've seen some pretty amazing techy stuff since I came here.

[garudynamic]

Well, now we know why it got emptied- so we can't read everyone's texts.

[Texts 'Hi Cherry']

[cherryblooded]

[Waves at him! Hi, son.]

[garudynamic]

[ (￣ー￣)ｂ

Now back to your regularly scheduled trial]

[notjustawriter]

That's..... strange.

I suppose that means it's possible he's still got his other phone on 'im.

[captainobnoxious]

And he's just not picking up because he's an asshole or otherwise busy?

[...]

I wonder what'll happen if we all call him at the same time.

[goodforsomething]

Could just be irritatin'.

[He is dialing the number RIGHT NOW]

[notjustawriter]

Might be worth a try. I know with the phones I'm used to, it wouldn't work. But technology here doesn't seem to work the same way.

[On account of being virtual and everything.]