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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."
lackinginfaith: Caren offended. (a newspaper clipping for all that?)

[personal profile] lackinginfaith 2016-03-05 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
What kind of vampire -- never mind. So you can gauge metal.
goingdigital: (Yeah yeah)

[personal profile] goingdigital 2016-03-05 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahaha.

[Why is it always vampires.]
paidinblood: (Something's not right here.)

[personal profile] paidinblood 2016-03-05 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I made my own decision. I took things into my own hands.

[At least he understands that he shouldn't forgive him for this.]

I don't want or need your sympathy.
goingdigital: (Default)

[personal profile] goingdigital 2016-03-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The other, prettier detective.
paidinblood: (What was that about?)

[personal profile] paidinblood 2016-03-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
...We were bored, so we messed around with duct tape a while.

When that wasn't enough, we decided to kill each other instead.

[...Seems legit-]
captainobnoxious: (03 can't be that hard)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-03-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I think we would've lynched him or kept him locked somewhere for our own safety from the start, seeing as if there's a different way to sate I'm sure he would've done it.
cherryblooded: (calm / say what)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-03-05 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. Thank you.

[Now he can rest easy. Sort of.]
captainobnoxious: (26 hell yeah)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-03-05 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The more competent, less likely to jump to conclusions detective.
wokeupdead: all <user name=hotandcoldrp site=livejournal.com> ('cause this is THRILLER)

[personal profile] wokeupdead 2016-03-05 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[She definitely is prettier, thank you.]
lackinginfaith: Caren eating with a smirk. (15 minutes late)

[personal profile] lackinginfaith 2016-03-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Said the pot, but it's true.
happysweets: (pic#10068759)

[personal profile] happysweets 2016-03-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
...Really.
paidinblood: (46)

[personal profile] paidinblood 2016-03-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Whether or not I had to feed had nothing to do with it. Even if I had stuck around, I wouldn't have told any of you.

[Just to make that clear enough.]

If you must know, there's a man after me and my brother. A hunter. We can't stay in any one world for long, or he'll find and kill us.

Being in here is leaving him to die.
penduli: (69 so high so high)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-03-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is because he called you pretty despite your strangely proportioned body, isn't it. ]

It's fine. ...well, I mean, it isn't fine, but-- [ err. ] It would've happened eventually, seeing as we don't have a medical room that could have blood packs for you to feed off of as a replacement, and going by other people's accounts, Zagi seemed like the type of person who'd want you to go all out in a fight if you fought him.

[ ...so it kind of feels natural this happened? Maybe not this soon, granted, but yeah. ]
captainobnoxious: (02 i'm the best ofc)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-03-05 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I won't deny what's true.

[She knows she's not smart. She's proud of it.]
paidinblood: (52)

[personal profile] paidinblood 2016-03-05 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Why do you all keep trying to be nice to me?

I killed one of you. I would have killed all of you.
wokeupdead: (and no one's gonna save you)

[personal profile] wokeupdead 2016-03-05 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Black no.]

No matter the reasons or rationalizations there is no excuse for murder, Black.

[ESPECIALLY IN UNDER A WEEK.]
amygdalae: the storm lies in your hands. (you're only a victim of your own mind)

[personal profile] amygdalae 2016-03-05 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll still give it anyway.

[Because YOU CAN'T STOP HIM and look, Bruce has a lot of Issues. It's Complicated.]
notjustawriter: (♞ found a shaman in a)

[personal profile] notjustawriter 2016-03-05 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
....I'm sorry.

[Sorry it had to come to this, sorry that this is about to end terribly.]
goodforsomething: (⛵ counterfeiting tutor twenty bucks per)

[personal profile] goodforsomething 2016-03-05 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hm.]

Yeah, okay. That makes sense, then.
amygdalae: (so much disappoval)

[personal profile] amygdalae 2016-03-05 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
--let's not all endanger ourselves any more than we already have.

[Guys

Guys pls wasn't the blood sacrifice enough.]
prismbloom: (abaddon plasma)

[personal profile] prismbloom 2016-03-05 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I can speak only for myself, but I don't want anyone here to die.
penduli: (02 life is a fire burning inside)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-03-05 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ LYNNE, PLEASE. he's not rationalizing it, he's just saying...... ]

Humans murder cattle in order to eat and live. It's not that far-fetched to say that vampire see us the same way.
amygdalae: remember that you are human (memento mori.)

[personal profile] amygdalae 2016-03-05 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not an excuse, but at least it's understandable.

[It's... much better than just doing it just because.]
paidinblood: (Of course you showed up.)

[personal profile] paidinblood 2016-03-05 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
paidinblood: (36)

[personal profile] paidinblood 2016-03-05 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Okay he is still so ??? about the sympathy but you know what.

You know what.]


Kill that Kingmaker guy, would you?

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