WEEK 5 TRIAL...?

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TRIAL

Even though there's no guilty party left alive, The Lady ushers you all upstairs anyway. She looks...odd, her eyes glazed over in an odd manner, her motions a bit sharper than normal.

There's still the box, but for some reason it feels...ominous...?

And though she says nothing, music begins to play in the room...


VICTIM:
M̧̛̥͉̳̪͔͕̼͎̻͕͟Ì̤̝̩͇̝͖̠̬́͟͞͝ͅŅ̛̛͖̺͇́͜A̵̢̡̗̙͇̝̥̹͇̲̖̣̰̖͡T̶̵̸̗̼̼͍̘̞̠̀ͅǪ̸̸̨̞͇̪͚͇ ̨̼̪̖̯̻͙̤̬͉̟̭̙̟̗͡A̻̣̭̻̫͎͈̥͎̗̻͘͡R̢͇͚̻̦͟͝I̡҉̷̯̼̤̹̜̙̟̜̹̝̺̣͈̩̘̭͠S͏̶̜̬͔͈̭͉̯̪͙͓̪̻̖͉̩̕͜͟ͅͅA̡̢̻̥̠̭̯̻͇͖T̴̨̛͎̟͕̜̗̗̰̯̥̺̯̹͜O̧̧̭̥̺̱̺̠̞͜,̠̯͔̥̖̣͖̼̪͍̕͡͝ ͏͓̬͇̱͖̰̞̠̺͟R̵̡̛͍̰̯͔͖͚̣̼̼̲̻͡E҉̴̶̡͖͚͈͈̯̺̠̖̼Á͈̣̜̥̗͍̫̖̱̰̘͓̲̺̀̕͜͡N̴̸̵̨̰̭̖̰̯͖̩̺͇̟̱ ̧̖̱̣͖̲̙̲̖̟̩̭̩̬̝̟͚Ş̸҉̳̺͙͓̱̲̙̜͈̠̦̞͓͘͜C̴̵͙̫̰̫͕͓̲̬͔̯͝H̛͍̖ͅW̵̟̘̣̬͇̟̳̙̟͡A͙̗̩̟̣̥̪̮̯̮̜͙̮͎̗̳͎͚̹͘͞R̡̧̖̦̀̀ͅZ̹̺̙͕̰͘E͡҉̨̠͓̦͈̻̼̱͍́͝R̵̞͉͖̟̮͚̮̼͍̬͔̭̥͓̹̙̖̮̮͜


?̶̧͔̝̱́?̵̪̮̖ ̶̡̧͖̳͚G̖̬̳͜U̟͎͈̦̖̹̕E̗͈͚͎S̸͕̩T̷̲͖̬́S̩̝̻̲͟ͅ ͍̪̻R̯̟̩̲̻͍͡E̢̺̻͓M̫̦̲̲̼͡A̴̛҉̮̺̪̼̜̹̯Ị͘N͏͚͓̗͔̼̞̘.̙̥̮̳̩͘

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ROUND 4 VOTING

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[The lady, your grim specter of death, reads the votes.

She lifts her head, her eyes beginning to look like they're glistening with unshed tears.]

Phil Connors has been voted guilty. He was Innocent, and a Peasant.

[She's silent for a moment, and then she speaks.]

Method of - murder - is Hanging.

[Almost instantly, Phil is in a corner of the room, with a noose around his neck, standing on a chair. The Lady looks on impassively, yet clearly unhappy as the floor under him suddenly gives way, the drop enough to instantly snap his neck with a sickening crunch.

He's left hanging there, and she looks down at the box in her hands.]

....Voting -

[Suddenly, she drops the box and screams in agony, clutching at her head and falling to her knees. She screams without breath for a long, long time - and when she stops, her eyes are even more vacant.]

...V....V...Vot...Voting ends in 15 minutes.

[justfists]

[oh, no. she's. she's definitely broken.]

... Whatever the Outsider is doing, he needs to stop.

He needs to leave.

[swordhandled]

Give him more time! Wait until the last possible second to vote!

[ frantically typing on the tablet as he says this ]

[purrtagonist]

We'll give him as much time as we can, but three people are dead already!

[a bit frantic himself]

[justfists]

No, Owain!

He knows no one out here wants to harm him! Instead he's sending everyone to their deaths!

A-And we've run.... out of volunteers.

[maskarang]

... Very well. If you trust him, so do I. I'll hold my vote.

[ gonna hover near owain for the rest of the trial he guesses ]

[resortghosts]

[ And very suddenly ghostfriend ditches. ]

[justfists]

[she notices immediately]

Yoshi?

[oh wait, now she gets it]

Re: ROUND 4 VOTING

[theycallhimmrpchan]

Bwee?!

[He frantically taps his hooves in Morse code: Me! I am no use here and i won't let my friends die, buy us time!]

[whirlingmace]

[ Can't understand pig or morse code. ]

[resortghosts]

[And he gets this taps in response:

... . .-. .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.-- ..--.. -.-.--]

[latebluemer]

[You know what? She's not even going to Morse code at him here, have a smack upside your bouncy pig head, Ryoga.]

[whirlingmace]

[ She flinches at that. ]

This is all realy really horrible...

[dolleyed]

... so are we still on that track of 'not ending the game and hoping for the best'?

[ He's so tired of everyone here. ]

[jumpedtheshark]

Yes!

[Well, she knows who she's voting for when/if they run out of scapegoats who aren't high on the list of people she would pull out a gun for.]

We're not voting for Cinque! I-it's plain to see that's what the resort would want!

[This whole thing rings of their hand trying to be forced here.]

[dolleyed]

Well, yeah.

Maybe ending the fucking game would mean that we get to stop offing someone every half an hour?? We can get our dead back but only if someone of us is left alive to fucking DO THAT!!

[duskhound]

[Oh good, it's actually a proper hanging and not the slow death kind.]

...Time's running out...

I think it's my turn next, then.

[wrongtiming]

—Wait, why?

[duskhound]

I can give five reasons why I should be executed.

Hideki Hinata. Caithe. Poe Dameron. Nana Osaki. Ginevra Weasly.

Is that enough to understand what I'm hinting at?

[resortghosts]

[ AND VERY SUDDENLY GHOSTFRIEND IS DESPERATELY HOLDING YOUR HAND, SORRY ELLIE. ]

[duskhound]

[Hi, Yoshi. There is an automatic reaction, but she does calm down a bit once she recognizes the hand.]

It's fine, as long as things go well, we can be brought back.

Even if I probably shouldn't be.

[jumpedtheshark]

E-ellie-chan!?

[This is not very welcome, but it's not Vanitas, Roxas, Cinque, Blue Angel, Owain, or herself soooo....]

Aaah...! Yoshi isn't going to like this!

[latebluemer]

Troit-san, you can't...

[She's not down for this, honestly.]

[justfists]

[what]

[latebluemer]

[She's not sure whether the Lady's screams or the hanging are worse this time around, honestly. They both just seem to go on and on, the sounds reverberating through the space and then through memory. She puts her hands over her ears for a brief moment and then... cautiously approaches the Lady, giving her a berth but staring into those empty eyes.]

... I think this is hurting the Resort too. I think we might all be running out of time, here.