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]

[Cherryblod's hand flies to cover his gasp - it'd been a theory, certainly, but he hadn't wanted to get too attached to it. It could be wrong, they could be completely guessing-

But this. This isn't wrong. He can hope and he can be right for once.]

They're alive... They're all alive.

[He sees those circuits glowing, and he could not possibly be happier right now.]

Paging KM

[garudynamic]

Speaking of...

Hey, Kingmaker- are the 'dead' okay? Are their 'ghosts' basically just like us right now?

[kingmakereffect]

Focus on the trial.

[garudynamic]

...

Wow, fuck you?

[He doesn't even sound mad just a little shocked that he expects them to carry on after this kinda hope is dangled in their faces]

[cherryblooded]

They're going to be fine, my dear.

[He hasn't sounded this optimistic since he first arrived.]

[garudynamic]

Yeah... yeah.

[Sorry dad, he's just so sick of this rude asshole]

[isafraid]

Everyone...! They're bloody out there... along with the rest of us!

[God can he just have a heart attack now and get it over with]

This... this is sick....!

[cherryblooded]

It's - kind of gross yes - but better than being dead.

[It's so much better that he may not stop smiling for an hour.]

[isafraid]

...In a way.

[He doesn't like seeing this. It's like they're watching themselves laying in their coffins.

rude af kingmaker]

[cherryblooded]

Well, I think so, anyway.

[It's weird as hell. He's not denying that.]