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

[captainobnoxious]

No, but I kind of expected you to be an asshole and answer why we're here here, not here as in the game thing.

[He's still being an asshole though.]

[kingmakereffect]

Why your bodies are here in the courtroom, you mean? That's not important.

[notjustawriter]

[.....]

Why are we all being kept alive in the first place? Is it a ransom of sort, in the event we fail the "game"?

[kingmakereffect]

No, not at all.

[amygdalae]

My guess is that we can't exactly exist right now if our bodies are dead.

Even in a simulation, our minds still need to able to process things.

[captainobnoxious]

[IN WHAT REALM IS THIS NOT IMPORTANT]

Fine. Are we entertainment for someone?

[kingmakereffect]

Yes.

[isafraid]

Would that entertainment be yourself?

[kingmakereffect]

In part, yes.

[captainobnoxious]

This isn't really important, but how are our ratings doing? Mettaton mentioned once I was going to make his drop.

[Being able to see past him and all. It was kind of cute.]

[kingmakereffect]

You just acknowledged that it isn't important. Why would I answer that?

[goodforsomething]

...I dunno, that seems pretty important.

[literally just here to be the peanut gallery tbh]

[captainobnoxious]

[EXACTLY]

[garudynamic]

...probably just for this dramatic reveal, honestly.

He IS pretentious, remember?

[captainobnoxious]

That depends, what's pretentious mean?

[garudynamic]

Uh... like trying to look or sound more important then you really are? I bet Black knows the actual definition.

[captainobnoxious]

He would, he's a nerd like that.

[penduli]

[ THIS IS RUDE




BUT NOT WRONG, ACTUALLY ]

[goodforsomething]

It's people who act all fancy to show they're better than you.

[captainobnoxious]

Not my kind of crowd, then. Sheesh.

[isafraid]

[sigh] Those sorts are just the worst.

[penduli]

[ ...uh. ]

Something like—giving something more importance or effect than it actually has in order to try and impress someone. Someone who's pretentious uses big words or has a high-and-mighty attitude to make themselves seem more important or smarter than they actually are.

Like Yosuke when he tries to talk about raptors.

[goodforsomething]

Or they correct your grammar when you talk.

[NOT

POINTED

AT ALL]

[captainobnoxious]

[... Oh.]

Then yes, he's pretendous.

[Pretentious.]

[garudynamic]

Excuse you.