Final trial

[grimgrinningghosts]

[After everyone is done investigating/disabling an alien, they will hear a quiet click near the staircase. When they approach the staircase, they will find that there’s a whole new set of stairs, going even further down.

The stairs go deep down, and it takes while before there’s any end in sight, but eventually they reach door. Behind it is a large, completely gray room. If it weren’t for the massive table and strange podium sitting in the middle of the room, the guests would be instantly shocked by how empty it is otherwise. But the feeling of emptiness grows the longer they stay in the room.

The door closes behind them when they all enter the room. If they look, there is a similarly gray tv set sitting at the end of the table, right in front of the podium. Despite it’s age, there is a VHS player connected to it.

Well it sure is lucky you have a VHS tape on you, right?]

Comments

[lusito]

And I don't suppose we can ask you to stepdown because you're clearly too prejudiced to this case, which in a court of law would render the verdict obsolete no matter how the vote goes.

[candlelightsflicker]

Better me than the guy who was supposed to be overseeing this case.

[lusito]

Oh? And why's that? Afraid the vote won't go the way you want it to in that case?

[candlelightsflicker]

You'd already be dead.

[lusito]

... Like dead as in not even an afterlife dead, or by what's usually my standards of being "dead"?

[because we could be here a while debating Joshua's definition of dead here]

[candlelightsflicker]

What would you call a little bit of both?

[lusito]

In other words, it probably wouldn't benefit me as it might under normal circumstances. Or at least normal for me?

[candlelightsflicker]

I don't think it would, necessarily. Unless you're like The Ghost Host and want to be dead purely because it's ~aesthetic~.

[keyofimagination]

... He always did seem like the kind of person who would do something for the aesthetic and nothing else.

[The pot said about the kettle.]

[lusito]

Can't say I don't blame him, given my own history: the dead just seem to be more aesthetically pleasing in temperament than most of the living nowadays.

[Josh you better not be seriously considering this...]

[candlelightsflicker]

Oh, yes! Don't forget all the puns.

[lusito]

That too: the dead can certainly take a joke better, after all... or at least most of them do.

[candlelightsflicker]

Of course.

[lusito]

[There's a long pause as Joshua actually appears to be seriously considering his choice here before he speaks.]

Well, what kind of person would I be if I didn't defy the person in charge by now? If we all walk out of here in one piece, that's great, can't wait to come up with more bad jokes. If we all die after this vote... well it wouldn't even be the worst thing I've gotten myself killed for. If anything, maybe the dream will finally end.

[... Hope you're not expecting Josh to explain what the hell he means by that, but he holds up his paper.

INNOCENT]

[hallotween]

... [grins, shakes head.

this motherfucker.]

[lusito]

[did you really expect anything less from us]