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

[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.

[isafraid]

.... Well. I suppose it could be. B-but we're talking about Mettaton here!

[Your boyfriend???]

[goodforsomething]

The guy did murder people for TV.

[goodforsomething]

Sounds like a bad idea for the showrunners.

[captainobnoxious]

Or the best. Depending if they had a back up.

[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.

[captainobnoxious]

He's gonna be pissed to have lost his job to...

[...]

To Glory, I guess? I wonder if part of the reason was because he started having favorites too. Stars aren't supposed to.

[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!

[garudynamic]

[He's got you covered Mr. Pines, making a graphic gesture in the reverse direction.]

[goodforsomething]

[If he flips the bird really hard, will his body's hand move too?

He's trying it tbh]

[garudynamic]

[You can do it Stan, he believes in you]

[isafraid]

Quit bloody watching this!

[Yeah he's also yelling at a wall. It's a different one though.]

[sleepingkogoro]

Hm...what if this is being broadcasted to people we know? You know, as a way to show them "Look how your loved one is doing in this place".

[In which case there's nothing like Speedwagon screaming at Jojo to stop watching the magic TV box or Yosuke making obscene gestures at Yu and the rest of the gang]

[garudynamic]

[Honestly they probably expect it]

[amygdalae]

[Bruce very highly doubts that anybody would be watching him, but.]

...wouldn't we be the supposed hostages, in this scenario?