trusthell | Taking Responsibility.

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.

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And even before that, this implies that we all knew each other to some degree before any of this even happened.

Not necessarily - just that we met whoever's running this.

All the same, at least we would have had knowledge of others beyond ourselves.

[And clearly they did not.]

Unless the drugs made us forget.

I suppose.

[Though really, why were they required to forget in the first place? There's really no logic to that at all.]

That's probably just a side-effect, according to Glory.

...so they probably weren't meant to make us forget anything. They just sort of did.

Seems kind of strange for us all to have memory problems on accident, but maybe whatever they gave us was just that powerful.

If all this is true, we've been kept out for a good couple months. Multiple doses, sure, but that's strong stuff.

It certainly has to be something incredibly potent.

[Especially since if this isn't his real body...

...

Yeah.]

...wait, why the hell would Mettaton have had memory problems? Sure, you could probably hook a robot into a virtual world, but you can't drug him.

[...]

Maybe something got messed up on the way? He told me once that the hot body he was in actually wasn't all that energy efficient, but when he asked KM about it that guy told him he wouldn't have to worry about it.

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....It does, don't it?

If we were tryin' to do somethin' together, the memory-wipin' drugs were a pretty awful plan.

It was probably a stupid idea, judging by this situation. I don't know what the hell I was thinkin'.

I've had some bad ideas, but they're usually better than this. And I stole 300 gallons of radioactive waste from a government warehouse.

That was a fantastic idea and I'm still punching your brother if I ever get the chance to meet him.

[...okay, point.]

It was a good idea, but I could've planned a better heist with more time and resources. The part where they came after me for it was real inconvenient.

...did you at least wear protective gear?

'Course I did!

[Insert gif of Stan wiping some of it on his forehead tho]

[Stan pls.]

...remind me to give you a crash course on how to properly handle radioactive material.

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Why would you even do that?!

[Ah geez, the fuzz]

I needed it to get the portal on. Ford couldn't just power it on electricity or somethin' like a normal person, that wouldn't be nerdy enough.

...It required that much?

[Good lord. That portal sure is something.]

Iiiiit's a big portal!

[Look he doesn't know]

That is just...so alarming. It truly is a miracle that you did not damage your overall health!

[More mysteries for another day, though...if there is another day.]