RECORDING 15: THE FIFTH TRIAL.

[foundationmods]

The worst has happened... and now you're all here, in the living room where all the trials so far have taken place. As all of you enter, the Vessel is there - Ango, standing as firm and unyielding as ever, waiting for the time when the trial is scheduled to begin.

On one of the tables away from the center is a small enclosed box entitled 'VOTES', with slips of paper nearby and a pen. It's sufficiently away from what will be the 'main' action, but not enough to really give anyone complete privacy as they vote.

Once everyone is inside, the doors automatically shut and lock themselves, leaving you trapped in here with the Vessel...and each other.

One of you is a murderer...however, in this game, the guilty do not need to be voted out. As long as there are enough people voted out that matches the victims...then it will be accepted.

...But, can you really let someone get away with murder...?

The choice is up to you.



VICTIMS: Battler Ushiromiya and Giovanni Potage
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 2

WEEK 5 VOTING

Comments

[cw_suicide]

[man, you really should not do that when the ex-mafioso already has a gun out.

he doesn't even blink, just aims the gun right at Hikage's right knee and pulls the trigger. ice cold.]

[reanimania]

[ HOW MANY BAD DECISIONS CAN HE MAKE IN ONE FUCKING TEN-MINUTE PERIOD, LET'S FIND OUT

JUMPS IN FRONT OF HIKAGE BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING IDIOT!!!! ]

Stop it!!!

[cw_suicide]

How foolish. You know you're just being used, don't you? And you still fall for it.

[reanimania]

[ probably on the floor and crying even more because i guess he might have just gotten grazed with schrodinger's bullet or something ]

I-it's fine. I know-- our whole lives, he never liked me. I'm not stupid. But as long as he needs me, then he won't leave, so--

[ There is... definitely some miasma-eye going on, but his glasses are a mess of tear spots now anyway. ]

[cw_suicide]

[... sighs and puts his gun away.

it's just really too pitiful to comment on, honestly]

[sageking]

Dazai—

[ And I guess that fukken happened because he was focusing on Romani and there was a lot going on?

...also ig Saphir jumped in the way which made it worse... ]

[cw_suicide]

I aimed for a nonlethal point.

[look. the fucker had it coming.

and Saphir is too useless gay to cope]

[sageking]

[ To be quite honest, Gilgamesh had a feeling the damn fool would get himself shot on account of everything involved. ]

...No more. Just ignore that fool from now on.

We need to find the other one.

[cw_suicide]

It would be more of a relief if someone could disarm him, heika. He's too good of a shot to leave guns on him.

[kaliedoscopes]

[ You really shouldn't but hey we're here now. And he was NOT prepared for that and oh man does he scream. And it sounds exactly like how Ango would. How he probably did about a week ago. ]

H-how could you...where's that man I saw at Oda's gravestone?

[finalring]

Dazai. Do not listen to him.

[ he tries to move in front of not!ango, an arm raised. he recognizes that name from the story that dazai told him, after all. ]

He's not worth it. And he'll die if we vote for him. So stop.

[cw_suicide]

Don't worry, sensei. I know how to control myself.

[that said, he is giving Hikage the coldest stare.]

[finalring]

You better.

[ it's a somewhat icy tone. his anger is quickly subsiding, leaving something that is closer to emptiness. ]

[cw_suicide]

[yeah, he's familiar with that sort of things.]

At least we won't have to worry about him running off. Someone who shoots a man in an execution style like he did can take a missing kneecap.

[or two.

but time to put gun away and. be. a good man.

... it's so hard to be a good man tho.]

[cw_suicide]

Oh, no no no. You see. That man... is Oda's friend.

You? Are my enemy.

I'll ensure you suffer as you deserve.

[kaliedoscopes]

[ He'll drop the face here. ]

Will you? I've been suffering for far longer than you've been alive, Dazai.

[cw_suicide]

Then you should have at least learned that causing more suffering doesn't make you suffer less, now shouldn't you have?

Funny how it only took me four years to learn that one.

[kaliedoscopes]

It doesn't, you're right. But it gives me joy, even if it's fleeting.

[cw_suicide]

Haa... there's a big reason we never saw eye to eye.

Sadism got so tiring for me.

[kaliedoscopes]

You have to pace yourself. If it's all despair all the time, it does get boring. [ This is why he wears his faces, or so he tells himself anyway. ]

[accessorytomurder]

...

[God, she hopes he isn't a Vessel next week.

God, she hopes Ango gets to ghostpunch him for this.]

Hikage-san. Enough.

[kaliedoscopes]

Right, I'll be a good boy now like I have this entire time.

[ ... ]

Are you kidding me? Do you think I actually care about what you think? I would have killed you if Battler wasn't more useful than he was.

[accessorytomurder]

You do care. If only... because if what we think hurts us, it will make you happy. Right?

[She takes a measured breath.]

Do you want me to cry, Hikage-san?

[kaliedoscopes]

[ He purses his lips. ]

I've gotten my fair share already, but...