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Trustfell Mods ([personal profile] trustharder) wrote in [community profile] trusthell2016-03-05 12:00 pm

Take Responsibility.

And after all has been said and done and all clues have been found, those large steel doors at the end of the hallway open up.

The elevator both is and isn't a particularly nice one; it rides smoothly and quickly and it's obviously been kept-up, but there's nothing on the interior walls, lending a claustrophobic feeling to what's already a relatively small space, particularly with all of you in there. (Well. Almost all of you.) No distractions from what just happened, nothing to take your mind off of considering what might, just you and your fellow Survivors in an unadorned steel box. There's no visible panel for buttons, either; looks like it's pre-programmed; at least the ride is a relatively short one, though it's difficult to tell the distance traveled before the door opens again.

You would be forgiven for your initial thought being that it opens into a void.

It isn't complete darkness, but it's enough of a visual shift from the elevator that it probably takes your eyes some time to adjust; instead of the usual concrete and steel, the walls are a dark, heavy black, making the room look far smaller than it is. There aren't any corners to it, either; the room is tightly circular, complimenting the setup in the center of it.

In the center of the room is a circle of podiums, twenty-seven in total, arranged so that everyone standing at them can see each other. So everyone can look each other in the eyes, if they so choose. The podiums are interlocked - there's no cutting across the center of the circle, and for good reason, it looks like there's a lot of nothing down there where the floor should be, just a massive black pit in the center - and each is bearing the title of the person who's assigned to stand at it. No names, just adjectives, emblazoned across two brass panels on the very top and the front of each podium.

Affixed to the podium itself is a glass touchscreen panel; it's dark for now, but it'll probably be relevant later. At least the glass is shatterproof, in case things get heated.

In general, though, all of the podiums are identical, except for the one intended for Zagi. The podium that should bear Adaptable's title has had a black cloth draped over it, and a copy of Zagi's profile photo is sitting on top of it, framed and colorless, an image in greyscale.

It's hard to tell where the Kingmaker's voice comes from, when it does; it seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at once, like it's being piped in from someplace you can't see. But he's very definitely audible when he does speak.

"Adaptable has been taken from you. Looks like the guilty among you is attempting to end the exercise by carrying out Rule Seven. It's up to you whether they're held responsible for their actions or not."
captainobnoxious: (19 yeah that's broken)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-03-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't stomach the thought of eating someone, so I don't think you're one of those things.
ratingspoint: (ASIDE ♥ okay but enough about you)

[personal profile] ratingspoint 2016-03-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, sweetheart - I've been asked to break doors down enough in this place to know!
amygdalae: remember that you are human (mega bullshit going on right there)

[personal profile] amygdalae 2016-03-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
None of us seem to be in bad shape right now, though.

[Which meant... something, clearly.]

Like somebody mentioned earlier, one of us seems to possess an accelerated healing factor, if that is indeed the case.

>[Bruce can't you just use 'healing fast' like a normal person.]
Edited 2016-03-05 18:23 (UTC)
lackinginfaith: Caren judging from a distance. (how big is your phone)

[personal profile] lackinginfaith 2016-03-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It does. But even if this was self-defence, you heard what the Kingmaker just said.
penduli: (66 you just have to want it badly)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-03-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a disappointed shake of the head. ]

I'm sorry, I don't know. Like I said, Casters don't deal with them that often, if at all. Everything I've told you is pretty much all I can recall learning about them.

[ doesn't mean they have to rule them out though! after all, like black said, it might be different in other worlds. ]
isafraid: (Allow me to introduce myself)

[personal profile] isafraid 2016-03-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Unless they could muscle through it with a healing ability.
lackinginfaith: Caren being a downer. (oh sorry. thought she was dead)

[personal profile] lackinginfaith 2016-03-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know about that. But in this case...
neverafters: (the king had a handkerchief)

[personal profile] neverafters 2016-03-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
M-maybe... the cuts were made after his death, to make it look like Adaptable's?
happysweets: (pic#9226734)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-03-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to think it was just to defend himself, not because he wanted to try anything...
notjustawriter: (♛  will be your own)

[personal profile] notjustawriter 2016-03-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
So Zagi probably swiped a couple of the knives from the kitchen, and was lookin' to find someone who was alone and headed to the library, where he attacked the culprit.
lackinginfaith: Caren looking nervous and contemplative. (she's just a bunch of pixels)

[personal profile] lackinginfaith 2016-03-05 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't that be more of a mess if it weren't cleaned up?
cherryblooded: (calm / frown)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-03-05 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright. Well, in that case, please excuse me, everyone.

[Cherryblod hops down from his podium and starts to go around, counterclockwise (so towards Black) and feel everyone's skin.

Any of you guys cold?]
sleepingkogoro: (boast)

[personal profile] sleepingkogoro 2016-03-05 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Not Mouri]
notjustawriter: (♞ he said "i just think hot")

[personal profile] notjustawriter 2016-03-05 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no such thing as context in this game of his.

How awful.
ratingspoint: (ARROGANCE ♥ that's what she said)

[personal profile] ratingspoint 2016-03-05 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I wouldn't put it past him.
amygdalae: its going to drop eventually (waiting for that other shoe)

[personal profile] amygdalae 2016-03-05 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh King. You're trying.]

There's too many cuts for it to seem plausible. And if the culprit did have time to do that, then why didn't he or she spent the time to clean up the scene instead?
goodforsomething: (⛵ quickly an excuse)

[personal profile] goodforsomething 2016-03-05 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty sure it would. Doesn't it spray out when that happens?
penduli: (01 life is a light shining around us)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-03-05 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Black's not! ...obviously. He probably wouldn't be talking about this topic so freely if he was. ]
goingdigital: (Pouty mcpout pout)

[personal profile] goingdigital 2016-03-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
But that still doesn't explain the claw marks.
ratingspoint: (Default)

[personal profile] ratingspoint 2016-03-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe! Or maybe not. Zagi was an interesting person like that.
cherryblooded: (calm / wait what)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-03-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well there goes the easy solution.]
cherryblooded: (smile / polka dot)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-03-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither would I.

[And yet he's still really upset about this.]
notjustawriter: (♞ i went to find the truth)

[personal profile] notjustawriter 2016-03-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nope, not Gabriel!]
ratingspoint: (ARROGANCE ♥ that's what she said)

[personal profile] ratingspoint 2016-03-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
So it did, sweetheart. Keep up!
isafraid: (More nervous noises)

[personal profile] isafraid 2016-03-05 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[THANK YOU FOR THAT CAPTAIN]

Ah... thank you then?

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