foolishmortals | first trial

[Once you make your way to the portrait gallery, Facilier's snarky voice chimes in as per usual.]

One of you folks actually went and did it. Not surprised: they always do. Besides, if you were gonna kill someone, the grandma ain't a bad start. Figure it this way: how many of you actually liked her?

[Suddenly, the whole room seems to move downwards. The walls get longer, and the ceiling grows further away from you. The portraits themselves seem to extend, as the room moves downwards at a startling pace.]

Things are not always as they seem, gentlemen. Can it be this room is actually stretching? And notice this: this chamber has no windows and no doors, which offers you this chilling challenge… to find a way out. Of course, there’s always our way.

[Suddenly, the floor stops. A new door opens at the side of the room.

Inside is what appears to be an old voodoo shop, covered in various artifacts and an unsettling large voodoo head at the back of the room. There is a summoning circle painted into the floor with a deep red paint. Each of you has a place within this circle, with a wooden podium marked with your room number waiting for you there. Podium 26 has a single candle lit aflame, as well as what appears to be a voodoo doll of Madame Mim stuck to the top of it.

Light music plays in the background.

Once you all take your place, Facilier himself appears within the middle of the circle, out of a cloud of smoke.]

You're here to figure out who did this. Once you have a hunch, you can feel free to write it down on the podium in front of you, but there are no takebacks. Majority rules, and your participation is mandatory.

'Course, you have all the time you need, if you want it.

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I can do that.

[This trial...has definitely taken a strange turn. He scoots as close as he can to Woody and tries to grab his arms.]

[!!!]

Hey, let go of me!

[just...tries to pull his arms out of this grip.]

[Wow. Who knew dolls were this squirmy? Louis only grips tighter--it's pretty easy to hold back a doll.]

Uh. What do I do now?

[Kit steps over to them and the wiggling doll.]

You understand the harder you make this the worse it looks, right? [He is just trying to hELP

And also get at that kerchief]

[So, yeah. There's blood on it.]

It's...not what it looks like.

[His expression goes carefully stony.]

Well then what is it.

...She got me to play cards with her.

Bad idea, I know. And the whole time, she egged me on. She wanted me to kill somebody because she wasn't able to, not with that body. So she kept talking about how - how I...wouldn't be able to make it, as a human. How my kid wouldn't want to play with me, and that it'd just be better if I killed someone and got rid of the curse.

But it got to the point where she just put so many ideas in my head...I attacked her.

So you're...you're sayin' it's her fault for rilin' you up, am I gettin' this right?

I still attacked her, and I'll accept that.

...At least you're takin' responsibility. I guess.

[Look it's not like he can blame him about it since Mim fed him weird potions and took delight in seeing him frustrated about it]

Yeah.

[...

to ariel] See, told you she deserved it.

[Of course she brought this on herself.]

No way! They still would have loved you! I'd be so happy if my toys were Molly-size!

There's a difference between big toys and creepy humans dressed like your toys.

Yeeaaah, Big was a creepy enough movie when you thought about it for too long. Combining it with Life-Size is just doomed to go wrong.

...I don't know how much Tom Hanks applies to the situation.

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Hey! Don't listen to them- they're all dumb grown ups and they've all forgotten!

Toys are important to kids! We'd understand, if some freaky magic thing made our friends big and real.

Yeah, that would be the coolest thing ever, to have a super big talking toy!!!

Sweetie, if a grown man came up to you dressed like a toy I would be justified in clocking him.

[... Mabel might not be too bright when it comes to some things, but she's not totally dumb.]

.... Yeeeeah now that you say it like that, it sounds pretty weird.