Second Trial

[rech]

[Once everyone makes it the portrait gallery again, they will hear Randall's voice echo through the room.]

I'm not sure what everyone expected. There are a lot of children here and given the situation it was only a matter of time they started dying.

[Charming.

The floor descends once again as Randall begins his speech.]

Our tour begins here in this gallery where you gaze upon the sweet innocence of youth. Ah, but things are not always as they seem. 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 my way.

[The floor stops again and doors open to the trial room.

At least the trial room doesn't look terribly different, although there are strange burn marks in the summoning circle now. And now, along with Mim, now Woody and Noby's podium has a lit candle and a voodoo doll resembling them (which is perhaps a little redundant in Woody's case).

Randall is already standing within the summoning circle, holding his stick with Facilier's head on it.]

Now then, I hope everyone has fun today.

[Trial Start]

Comments

[pinkflip]

[ Oh... Kim nods, taking a moment to compose herself enough to speak up. ]

Y-yeah, he got that...weird camouflage screen thing from the slot machine. He- I thought he put it up in his room.

[kickbuttseatnuts]

He tripped on it last week. I- he- he told me he'd be more careful with it.

[tanukey]

...There was a footprint on the stairs, looks like it could've come from the kid. Any chance we're lookin' at one hell of an accident here?

[sharpasanarrow]

All the furniture in the foyer was a mess. Some of the legs were snapped off.

[It'd be nice to hope, but...]

Surely he wouldn't have been that clumsy.

[madeofpine]

Maybe the monster got him.

[not_over_yet]

That would be an incredible stroke of luck... it'd mean we could execute him. [ Disgusted gesture towards Randy. ]

[sharpasanarrow]

I'd imagine there would have been teeth marks if it had.

[faciliheir]

Not all monsters have teeth!

[sharpasanarrow]

Unless he [Casts a glare at good old Randy] was feeling particularly imaginative, I'd expect there would be some kind of marks on the furniture anyhow.

[faciliheir]

Y'know, at the end of the day, the greatest monster is really man.

[JUST A THOUGHT]

[hasit]

It didn't look that way. Noby was...beaten all over. Bruised quite a lot, and his head was wounded.

[lostbutnotaboy]

I-it looked that bad?

[Oh god...]

[hasit]

[Leia nods.]

And what's worse, perhaps, is the bruises were about the size of his pet rock.

[pinkflip]

[ have a horrified gasp from the peanut gallery ]

[faciliheir]

-- That's. So messed up.

[she's almost impressed?]

[bayoublues]

Are you sure it came from N-Noby? I mean, um, we've...we've got quite a lotta other kids here....

[He doesn't want to even consider that possibility, but...]

[tanukey]

Maybe, I just know it looked human and kid-sized. Some kind of shoeprint.

[psychopinesis]

So should we check everyone's shoes to see if they would match?

[bayoublues]

Some of us don't even have shoes, though. So...um, I guess only the kids?

[madeofpine]

But none of us would hurt Noby!

[scrapplinghook]

It's gotta be! Maybe he just got really super clumsy.

[Mabel's been mostly quiet since they all filed in, from her place at Stan's podium instead of hers, but she has to speak up now!]

Nobody.... nobody here would really kill someone like Noby, right?

[doopdoll]

Don't worry. When this is all over, we can just time travel back, save him, and fight the monster together instead. [...She doesn't seem 100% positive on that, ok, but it's nice to dream.]

[scrapplinghook]

[It's a nice thought, but...]

Why didn't we just do that last time?

[doopdoll]

Cause we don't have a time machine here, duh.

[hasit]

I pulled one of those out, too.

[She'd noticed Rocket looking at it, but she'd been so distracted by the bruises...]