hijackers: (kate 3)
Mugsi Tocatta and Kate Durango ([personal profile] hijackers) wrote in [community profile] foolishmortals2017-12-09 11:59 am

MOCK TRIAL

"Alright, mooks, everybody make youse way down to the trial room, pronto!"

[There's certainly no trial room on the map. No trial soundstage, no trial room, where oh where could they be talking about. You might spend a long time looking for it, or only be thinking about it for a single second before it comes over you.

Whenever you close your ears, or even blink, you find yourself there.

The room is a cartoony laboratory, filled to the brims with scientific equipment and beakers beyond wondrous, almost impossible to imagine being utilized in any sort of actual scientific context. A large monitor is mounted on the ceiling, playing a single clip on repeat along with the words "IMAGINEER THINK TANK". There is a large stage underneath that television, which your two hosts take their places at quite readily.

A circle of metal podiums is set up on the ground floor, 26 in total. Each is marked with a name and a photograph of the individual who's supposed to take their place there, as well as a keyboard for inputting...something. The 26th podium is marked with a grayscale photograph of Gwenpool.

Your fellow participants appear in the room one-by-one, seeming to "digitize" out of nowhere. Once everyone has appeared in the room and taken their place, the air around them seems to go deathly still.

Mugsi holds a cigar between her lips, lighting it from a stick of dynamite lit by Kate. With Mugsi taking a deep inhale, Kate speaks, the dynamite somehow fizzling out.]


Each of you has a place you oughta be sitting, and your job is to solve the mystery that's been put before ya. Once you think you know who did it, input their name on the keyboard in front of you. Majority rules, participation is mandatory, and if ya vote wrong you're not gonna see the light of day ever again!

So, get on with it!
not_over_yet: (perfectly normal way to sit in a chair)

[personal profile] not_over_yet 2017-12-10 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Is there a more apt term for someone whose reasoning has internal coherence, yet bears precious few ties to reality?
stepfordsynthezoid: (Children she would do anything for)

[personal profile] stepfordsynthezoid 2017-12-10 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Insanity is a cruel word that dismisses any value of a person, Mr. Basil.

I warn you not to use it lightly.
not_over_yet: (...are you still here?)

[personal profile] not_over_yet 2017-12-10 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
The world's a cruel place. And you are avoiding the question. It was an honest one. What term is best suited?

...Or do you merely object to the subject entirely?
stepfordsynthezoid: (Virginia was a parent of two children)

[personal profile] stepfordsynthezoid 2017-12-10 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
I do not see the need for terms such as these in the first place. [Arms crossed defensively.] It appears reductive and counter-intuitive to the real issues in this place.
not_over_yet: (thinking)

[personal profile] not_over_yet 2017-12-10 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. I see.

[ The subject itself. Too close to home, for whatever reason.

...Fair enough.
]

It is irrelevant to the matter at hand.