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]

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.

[goodforsomething]

You know you're talkin' to the one who had us all doin' bloodlettin' the first week, right?

[Just saying]

[captainobnoxious]

[HEY]

And it worked, so I don't think anyone could complain.

[captainobnoxious]

[Sheesh. Someone's got a bee in their bonnet.]

Fine, fine, sheesh. You could've just dropped it at "too thick for you to break" and that'd be that.

[cherryblooded]

Have we ever focused in a trial? Sometimes I think you aren't paying attention.

[isafraid]

Well, we always seem to figure things out. Somehow.

[isafraid]

You work for yourself?

[kingmakereffect]

That's what I said, yes.

[isafraid]

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

[kingmakereffect]

Figure that out on your own.

[isafraid]

[Siiiiiigh]

You'll at least give us some "yes" or "no"s when we do figure it out, right?

[kingmakereffect]

Maybe. If you're not getting distracted by pointless questions every five seconds.

[isafraid]

Not like you've ever given us much reference to what isn't pointless.

[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.

[penduli]

[ sigrun no ]

Bosses typically pay their workers with some sort of compensation. Material, favors... God doesn't do that. [ we're??? having this conversation?? ] They're a human idea anyway, in this context. Not a God one.