FINAL TRIAL

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TRIAL

After a very, very long six weeks, it has finally come. The last time everyone will need to trudge up those stairs and meet in the master suite. It's do or die time, and hopefully everyone knows what needs to be done by now.

As soon as the guests walk into the room, they will be able to smell the food that the chef has provided: duck l'orange, served up on a nice platter. Eat up everyone!

There are a few unexpected guests this time. A large group of the rats is here, and they show up in a swarm as they carry Gabe into the room, much like how they had carted him off to the Child Daycare last night. Once he is deposited in the room, Gabe will also stand up and remain there, crossing his arm and looking a bit standoffish.

They're not the only unexpected faces around here, though...

VICTIMS: ICHIGO KUROSAKI and THE RESORT THE HOTEL

10 11 GUESTS REMAIN

Comments

[duskhound]

[...Now this is a familiar sensation. Ignoring the fact that the body's actually properly alive this time. ...Which technically makes this a new experience?

...Well, either way, she's alive again, and pulling herself out of a cart of bodies... At least she waited until there were less bodies around?]

Good job everyone, I knew you could do it!

[Yes, let's immediately pretend like things went exactly like she thought they would.]

[latebluemer]

[To be fair, they're all kind of pretending a little right now.

It's uncertain whether the Resort has been sufficiently contained, it's uncertain what's going to happen with the people they're bringing back with them (Cinque, Gabe, Ichigo, who knows what else will come up at this point), it's even uncertain how many of them will see each other again after this.

But for now, for this, they still have everything and everyone together.

Aoi will come hang out by her, waiting as she extracts herself.]

... It was touch-and-go for a while there. But I'm glad you guys were able to talk to us still.

[Even if it was through. A duck.]

[duskhound]

The duck thing was... Honestly kind of weird to me, personally.

[She's just. Going to get that out there. Don't use living things for morse code please?]

I was actually part of the initial team to find a path to the control center, and I was with you guys when you were going through that path, too.

Did you know that those long hallways are actually circular? They don't seem like it at all when you're inside them, do they?

[latebluemer]

It was pretty weird for me, too. But it was better than nothing.

[That's not even flippant, she would have taken one of Szayel's ridiculous tentacles for morse code if she had to -- anything would have been worth that last sad little connection to the dead, in this last week.

So the fact that the duck (now not living) was at least kind of cute was a plus. Maybe.]

I guess all those pathways and doors must have been the brain, huh? I was so distracted by the memories, I didn't think about the layout. But it makes a weird kind of sense.

[She sounds bemused, but not surprised that Ellie is immediately here to talk shop.]