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

[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.

[notjustawriter]

....Are you the host?

[If we're going the television route.]

[kingmakereffect]

That's not important.

[isafraid]

Well, it would explain your part in all this.

[captainobnoxious]

Mettaton would've been the host. He's experienced with things like this, but I don't know if people kill their hosts or not on these shows.

[isafraid]

It... wouldn't strike me as a show that lasted very long if it did!

[captainobnoxious]

Okay, but the drama they got from it would've been worth it, probably.

[goodforsomething]

Sounds like a bad idea for the showrunners.

[notjustawriter]

He was the.... killswitch, right? Who acted when no one else would. If this is all reality tv, I guess "killin' off" the host would draw a crowd.

[garudynamic]

...is the other part that city?

[kingmakereffect]

Yes.

[garudynamic]

[Just like the TV world, only so much worse]

Heh, and no one wants to watch a bunch of bad people kill each other for long. People love a goddamn hero.

[He sounds about to laugh. Or scream]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan looks up in the direction he generally thinks a camera might be.]

Hey, you. Yeah, you.

Fuck you, city people!

[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?

[captainobnoxious]

Dunno. If our ratings are bad, then we get cut. Right? That sounds right.

[goodforsomething]

...I dunno, that seems pretty important.

[literally just here to be the peanut gallery tbh]

[captainobnoxious]

[EXACTLY]