foolishmortals | 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!

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"In the crime our gracious host orchestrated"? That was certainly something determined by our host, but did a murder occur?

I mean, technically? [Thor furrows his brows.] His intent was real, whether it was simulated or not.

Intent isn't what the vote is about.

It raises a discussion about whether murder is still murder if it's not real, even if you don't know that it is.

Does this mean Bill is the murderer or that there really is no murderer? [He is genuinely trying to follow Basil, since he seems like he has more sense than most people here.]

There was no murder. There is no murderer.

I think he's a low-life, despicable murderer regardless. But for all intents and purposes I suppose you are right.

Edited 2017-12-10 05:38 (UTC)

Playing Clue with you must be like pulling teeth.

What happened to our being actors with parts to play? You want me to "break character" because you can't be bothered to put some effort into your own performance?

No, I want you to be better at being yourself so it doesn't take ten years for you to get anything done. It's really boring for me, I can't imagine what it's like for them.

[Ryan waves to you. Yes, you. The one reading this tag.]

It's boring, right? He just keeps saying the same thing like it'll work if he says it in different ways.

....While I consider Mr. Evans motivations and behavior somewhat disadvantageous to our goals in general, he is not incorrect. You [Basil, that is] continue to waste time adding smug remarks and sarcastic grins to the end of your arguments.