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

PAGING KM

[captainobnoxious]

[... Sucks for you guys.

Wait.]

Did the audience like our bloodletting?

[sorry it's a useless question, again]

[kingmakereffect]

[SIGH]

What have I told you about useless questions, Boundless?

[goodforsomething]

I wasn't listening - what did you tell her?

[STAN DON'T ANTAGONIZE THE MURDER MAN]

[kingmakereffect]

[WELL THAT ONE'S NOT GETTING AN ANSWER]

[goodforsomething]

[Just gonna keep working on making his comatose body flip you off, then!]

[captainobnoxious]

[it wouldn't be her if she wasn't interested in her own fame, km]

That you won't answer them. [SIGH] Okay, well, I'm guessing that this won't get an answer either, but I've been surprised before! So.

What kind of questions will you answer?

[Please tell her "relevant ones". Please. This is the same one she asked Glory and got an answer about.]

[kingmakereffect]

Relevant ones, obviously. You've heard which questions I've answered.

[captainobnoxious]

Your AI was a lot more helpful than you. Who's your boss?

[kingmakereffect]

What makes you think I have one?

[captainobnoxious]

Everyone has a boss. Even a boss has a boss. Aren't I right?

[kingmakereffect]

No. I don't have a boss.

[captainobnoxious]

That blows. Okay, I won't file a complaint then.

[...]

How do we rescue ourselves from those coffin things?

[kingmakereffect]

Do you really think I'm going to tell you that?

[captainobnoxious]

You've told me things I never thought you would before. It was worth a shot.

How thick is that glass?

[kingmakereffect]

Will you focus? You all haven't figured much out yet.

[isafraid]

You work for yourself?

[kingmakereffect]

That's what I said, yes.

[isafraid]

...Does that mean everything here's been set up by you?

[penduli]

If they own the company, they don't have a boss. They're their boss.

[captainobnoxious]

... Then their boss are the gods, Black.

[penduli]

[ ... ]

Not everyone believes in God. Or in multiple gods.

[ this..... this is the conversation we're gonna have right here, right now.... ]

[captainobnoxious]

And they'll be rightfully punished for it. But the gods are there whether you believe or not, because there's still someone who does.

[pokexplorer]

[Colress ponders something. Perhaps it's relevant...?]

Might I ask if you are currently in a pod like the rest of us, then? Or...is Glory the one taking care of things on this end?

[kingmakereffect]

Interesting question and one I'm not going to answer now. You all still have a lot to figure out.

[pokexplorer]

Noted.

[Man, now he's really curious.]