CHAPTER SEVEN ; TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 7 - WEEK 711 Narrators Remain ; Wakey wakey, naughty murder children. It's a lovely Saturday, after all. Breakfast is served piping hot at its usual time and all of the evidence has been removed from the scenes of yesterday. No matter how you choose to spent your morning though, the clock will begin to chime the moment both hands reach the large, ornate twelve. Before your eyes materializes a door...but not just any door. Unlike the door leading to the festival, this door sits primly and properly right in front of the foyer. Whether you exit the castle on your own or you feel a friendly, invisible push, you begin to walk under an arc of wisterias. Behind you, the clock continues to chime with every step you take. By the time the time the clock strikes twelve, you've entered a beautiful garden. In front of you is a long table, 19 seats on each side. Around the garden are several glass cases containing evidence collected yesterday. As noon intensifies on the sun-shaped clock, you'll find Dragon at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand. Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate. The garden is strangely silent and there are no snacks today...it seems as though you'll be left to your own devices. Welcome to your trial post! Please see here for the OOC summary of events from yesterday's investigation. In addition, please be sure to vote! Please see the voting page on how to vote, as we will have two special things to vote for. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST or sooner if the game ICly elects so. If you have any questions, please ask on our Discord server or ping us on plurk. Please direct pings for the NPC to Dana (decals), as she will be taking point for today's NPC, and the moderator team will be on deck for all other questions. full navigation. locations taken (statuses) stories (profiles) info & faq wishing well private conversations

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[veronica voice] i hate all my friends and belph

[asswipe]

[WHAT'S UP, Y'ALL!!!!! Veronica is just going to kick off her shoes and go stand on top of the table so everyone can see her 5'3" ass. Hey.]

Before I get started, I want to make sure everyone knows they should direct all their questions to Belph. Any mistakes I made or information I omit is entirely his fault. Thank you.

[SAID SO SWEETLY. SO PURE. HANDS CLASPED IN FRONT OF HER.]

... Anyway. The reason this war began is because Tiger, who is— Um, either our Tiger or her mom? Stole ink from the original Dragon, our Dragon's father. Their memories are scrambled or something? Hell if I know. But the point is, this happened a long, long time ago and now we're paying the price for it. [WHY DO PARENTS RUIN EVERYTHING?? A NOVEL.] The reason we want to avoid killing off more than three Narrators per faction is because that would lead directly to Tiger's ending. And, as much as I'd like to help her, too... We can't afford to do that without fucking ourselves over. Tiger wants to use the ink to rewrite her own story so she wouldn't have lost her loved ones. As Dragon said, we wouldn't have enough ink to rescue all of our friends if that happened. You know, like our "friend" said in their letter. Bad shit.

[Sorry, Tiger!! She stans, but. Well.]

There are two endings where we get stuck in the castle forever, but... I think we're way past both of those as long as we don't fuck up big time? I think. Don't quote me on this. The ending we're aiming for right now is Dragon's ending. We have enough objectives completed for it. We just have to allow Souji and Sanji to do their thing so all three factions are equal. [...] The, um... The only thing we really have to worry about is that Tiger might try to kill Dragon once we cross that bridge? So, um, just saying. We might want to hurry up with whatever we're gonna do. No pressure, right?

[A LOT OF PRESSURE!!!]

... Like Ion said, Souji has a potion that can do anything the drinker wants, within reason. Don't ask where he got it from. [She has Tiger PTSD!!! Weeps. Either way, she pulls out a vial and the letter she requested from Dragon.] I also found this vial and this note on Rebecca's body. I couldn't recognize the handwriting, so I was hoping someone here would? Or— That they'd at least know what the liquid inside the vial is before I go shoving my nose inside of it.

[That's all she has to say. Discuss.]

[axilium]

[casually moves to the other side of the garden.]

[asswipe]

[grabs one of her shoes and takes aim tbh]

[axilium]

[shields himself!!]

[vigilantics]

So, uh. We should have enough ink to write Dragon and Tiger's new stories, revive all the dead, and send everyone back home. I talked to Dragon, and... I'm considering we try to reincarnate their lost loved ones? She said it would be possible and wouldn't cost them that much ink, if we can't bring them back to life.

[ since it. sounds like they can't do that??? ]

[asswipe]

... That's not a bad alternative. Assuming Tiger accepts it, anyway.

[vigilantics]

She's pretty upset about her family, so it at least seems like a... compromise...?

[concasse]

Reincarnation costs less than just reviving them, huh...

[The rules to this game are so weird]

But I say we try it. Whatever Tiger-sama might've done, she doesn't deserve to suffer anymore than Dragon-sama does.

[vigilantics]

I agree. Dragon seemed... okay with the idea, so it's just Tiger we'd probably need to talk to? I didn't get to chat with her last night.

[asswipe]

... I'd like to help Tiger, too, if we can. She's— I don't think she's as bad as some of us might think.

[nivation]

If that's an option, I support it.

[ Reincarnation is not the same as bringing back to life, but it's still another chance at life. ]

[vigilantics]

[ she nods her head. ]

Thank you.

[wearys]

So, the gist of it is... don't fuck up? And all we have to do is make sure two Heroes die and we're golden? Or whatever?

[ he doesn't say sanji and souji because he still wants to Maybe Fight about that ]

[axilium]

Well, this is also all contingent on everything we've been told being the truth, but... yeah.

[wearys]

How big is the possibility that it's not?

[asswipe]

Yup. Emphasis on the "don't fuck up" part. It sucks, but the rules of this place are big on balance. If we don't get the Heroes down to three to match the Villains and Civilians, this is never going to end.

[fonlines]

I believe our aim now is to rewrite this story's ending in as neatly and concisely a manner as possible, is this correct?

[asswipe]

I... think so, yeah. I'm just playing the world's most dangerous game of telephone.

[axilium]

Yeah. Basically, the appeal in Tiger's ending would be that—assuming the truth in everything, good intentions, etc.—it would end this war, once and for all. With Dragon's ending, it's still possible that a new Dragon and Tiger would emerge down the line.

For everyone else that isn't aware.

[sanguinairy]

I spoke with Tiger last night. [They both sat on her floor and drank, it was a time.]

She said that she was the first Tiger involved in this conflict, and Dragon isn't the first Dragon involved in it, but they both come from a long line of Tigers and Dragons. Her son would have inherited the role from her, and so on, and her mother was respected before her... So I don't really think their existence is the problem. Just this war.

[axilium]

Yeah, Tiger and Dragon have always existed. It's just that they lived peaceful lives until Tiger discovered the ink.

[vigilantics]

Dragon said that with their deaths, this specific war would end because there would be no one to inherit it from them.

That doesn't mean there wouldn't be other ones out there, just... none tied to this specific story.

[vigilantics]

[ WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION ]

Also, if everything goes well and we don't blow ourselves up somehow, we'll each get ink at the end to do whatever we want with it. So, for example, if any of you would like to jump worlds and go home with someone else [ POINTED GLANCE AT CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHO THEY ARE ] then you can.

[axilium]

[who on earth does steph mean, we just don't know.]

[fonlines]

[ ... okay that's new but listen he hasn't planned this far ahead he just knows he's very probably not going back to auldrant now

where the hell would he end up going, honestly, who would want this miniyan around ]