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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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.

Isn't that the guy who jumped on the couch with Oprah?

I think so? I'll have to ask Rex i-

Oh.

[Erm.]

Hoooow about I just google it later

Wait. Wait, we're not actually going to- we can't just let the zombie doc--

[ no more death please? ]

Rules are rules. And murder is murder, even if they deserve it.

But- they're not good rules! How can we just go along with this?

You that keen to die alongside him? Because that's what happens to people who don't play along with games.

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pinkflip - 2018-01-20 23:02 (UTC) - Expand

I mean...

There's gotta be an infinitely better solution to all this than more... of that...

It seems reasonable enough.

Dude! There's kids here! And there's extenuating circumstances!

sharpasanarrow - 2018-01-20 22:52 (UTC) - Expand

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tanukey - 2018-01-20 22:58 (UTC) - Expand

I'll admit his situation is a sympathetic one, but... murder is still a capital offense.

kickbuttseatnuts - 2018-01-20 22:58 (UTC) - Expand

. . . Weren't you Tom Hanks?

...What?

When you were all [makes a gesture for being tall] you looked like Tom Hanks.

Did I?

It could have been Tom Selleck? [No, wrong CGI movie.] No, I'm pretty sure it was Tom Hanks.

[Just kinda throwing up her arms.]

Who is Tom Hanks?!

That's what I'd like to know.

He's a famous actor guy.

An... actor? [????]

Then, what does he have to do with any of this?

Not to be confused with the other Tom who made the Room. He's an alien and a fugitive.

lostbutnotaboy - 2018-01-20 22:57 (UTC) - Expand

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not_over_yet - 2018-01-20 22:58 (UTC) - Expand

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.