TRIAL II

[lesmodsalouette]

Trial

At least this time you were given ample time to wreck your sleep schedule before the clocks gong at midnight (no apologies for such little sleep in the first place withstanding). The carnival looks just as you remember it, with the banquet and drinks refreshed. The spread is the same as before with two new additions: a platter of cute cupcakes that might remind you of someone, along with baozi of all types.

Like before, mind the pit in the middle and settle in to vote out the guilty party for the death of Siobhan "Shiv" Roy. With the benefit of experience, maybe this will be a little bit easier? With the mood weather lifted, there won't be any floods at trial at least.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (until 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. As this is scapegoat style, a correct vote is not necessary. Please remember to vote unless otherwise discussed with the mods, as that is our AC for this game ))

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[coldseep]

( Unfortunately, then, Andrew lives another day.

He closes his eyes for a few moments, collecting himself. )

... And how do you feel now?

[siffriend]

Hmm.

[ ... ]

The way I do before a loop resets. When I've gotten to the end, and I'm talking to the Head Housemaiden, and she's repeating the same thing she has the other dozens of times. Frustrated and wishing she'd just get it over with, so I could try again.

[ (Loop might have to take the stage after all.

They might be able to do something, since you can't.) ]

[coldseep]

That sounds like an interesting story.

( Rote for Siffrin, maybe, who's lived it a million times, but already novel to Hwylryn in just a few words. )

Do you think you'll have the time to tell it to me?

( Siffrin, likely, has other people they're closer to. Hwylryn won't particularly ask them for their last supper, given his is a more recent attachment.

But if they're made of time now that it's running out, he still wants to know them. )

[siffriend]

Yeah. I've got stories I can share, and... people, too.

[ Hwylryn had loved ones he'd do anything for. So does Siffrin.

(Maybe that's why, when Cain told all...

... You wanted to reach out, a little. Like you did with Odile.) ]

So... um. I'll make time. I guess.

[ lamely, trying to. be normal about all this. ]

[coldseep]

... Don't rush.

( Take your time with whoever comes before. )

I'll wait however long it takes.

[the_obedient_servant]

It is rather grating, isn't it?

The same dialogue, every time - the same conversations. It's hard to care about after so long.

[siffriend]

I know her lines word for word, now. I can say them before she does. I did it once; it was pretty fun, seeing her flustered, except... she kept on afterwards, so it didn't even matter.

[ It was just a neat trick. Something new to see what might happen. Siffrin didn't think it'd make a difference. ]

[the_obedient_servant]

For me, the repeated scene that I always woke up to was the woman that I called my mother taking in another child to replace the hole I had left in her life. She never knew that I was there.

[...]

I have some parting advice for you, if you would hear it.

[siffriend]

[ (... Crazy. That sounds awful, to you. Being replaced...

...

You'd never want that.) ]

I'd like it.

[the_obedient_servant]

...

This won't be the end. You just have to stay DETERMINED.

[And that's all they have to offer.]

[siffriend]

[ Stay...

...

Aw. That's nice.

(You like it. DETERMINATION.) ]

I will. I'll stay DETERMINED until I break the loop.

[the_obedient_servant]

[They wonder, internally, whether that would be possible. DETERMINATION used to wrest control of the timeline, to fix it, to live a happy future.

They... don't want to understand these feelings.

* Y O U M A D E Y O U R C H O I C E L O N G A G O

They nod. It is how they say goodbye. At least for now.]