FINAL TRIAL

[foundationmods]

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

[latebluemer]

[That earns a little laugh, lighter and airier than it has been in... probably ever. Probably a long, long time.]

I don't know, it was a bit too quiet over here. I'm okay with the noise, now.

[She'd almost forgotten what it felt like to have a full house, come to think of it.]

[dereban]

I guess that's fair. You'll need to teach me how to play that card game of yours once we get out of here, though. I never got a chance to learn it.

[latebluemer]

It'll be good to have some real opponents, come to think of it.

[She hasn't played much against anyone but the A.I. in. A while. Even before the Resort, she'd cut back a lot on her dueling, though it was still great for stress relief; it just... wasn't quite the same, especially within the Foundation, when she looked for people to duel against.]

We might even be able to get some real duel disks out of the Foundation instead of these tablets.

[These are her priorities, fam.]

[dereban]

I should pick up on it pretty quickly, and depending on how the game itself plays, I might actually be decent at it.

[ She snorts a little bit, placing a hand on her hip trying to hold up an air of confidence in spite of how she's actually feeling at the moment. ]

And you think so?

[latebluemer]

You have some gaming experience at least, so I'm sure you'll be a high-level player in no time. I'm looking forward to it.

[She doesn't explicitly bring up her experiences with mafia, but that's what she's thinking of -- long-ago discussions about roles and strategies and some other things that might have flown over her head and which seem so strangely removed from today.

Inaba, though, gets a sharp smile. It's just a little dulled from all their time here, but it's the look of something a little dangerous and a little considering.]

It's the type of thing they usually have me working on, the electronic stuff. Between me and Nanashi? We have a good chance.

[dereban]

There is that. [ Inaba's played other games besides mafia, of course - being someone who was a bit of a shut-in (not to Yoshi's extent, of course) back home, in Yokohama, who just ended up surfing the internet and playing things on there, all by herself. It was a pretty lonely life, back then. It was the same in the Foundation. She fell back into old habits. At the sharp smile, though, Inaba finds herself returning it with one of her own, lips quirking into something that you could say belonged more to an evil villain. ] Hah. Honestly, you guys are more advanced on the tech than I am. I seriously need to start learning to get back in the game. Can't be left out of the technological loop, you know.