FIFTH TRIAL

[rech]

[Today marked yet another death, and your good friend Randall is here to hype all of you guys up for this! As the room stretches, he speaks.]

You all know the spiel here, don’t you? Stretching room, I’m the Phantom, always my way, blah blah blah. We should get on with this. I want to see how it ends.

[A candle is lit and a voodoo doll placed out for Prince Kit. Your shitty ghost pirate friend is prepared.]

Trial start.

[TRIAL START!]

Comments

[nachosquire]

I'm pretty sure we have a couple of swords laying around here by now.

[not him tho hes sword free sweats]

It doesn't even really have to be a sword, just anything sharp enough to cut through whatever that wand was made of.

[athleticallyinclined]

[ Something sharp...wait a minute.

Time to throw a friend under the bus. Gaston points accusingly at Lekmet. ]

He was very interested in my...he called them dimensional scissors the other day.

[nachosquire]

......your what?

[Oh.

Oh. This. Oh.]

[athleticallyinclined]

Dimensional scissors.

[ This is the kind of attention he wanted. ]

He insisted I hand them over. Of course, being a trusting and generous fellow, I agreed.

[nachosquire]

[Now's time for Marco to look at Lekmet with Concern.]

Why didn't you tell me about the scissors, Lekmet?

[angelgoatdemon]

I. Uh.

[oh how the tables have turntabled]

[nachosquire]

Lekmet.

[Marco steps around Hiro, towards Lekmet's podium.]

Why didn't you tell me?

[boy he's kind of mad? okay no hes really mad how could you hide something so important from him he thought he was your Son]

[angelgoatdemon]

The scissors don't work here...! We'd be out of here by now if that's the case.

I didnt think it would be relevant

[nachosquire]

You still could have told me!

[YOU.. YOU GOATMAN]

If I found Star's wand and it didn't work I still would have told you about it before anything else! And I get it-- this isn't important, it's really not but we're a team! And nothing's going to get accomplished if none of us work together, Lekmet!

[he's just a frustrated edgy teen hell calm down in a minute]

[angelgoatdemon]

It- it slipped my mind! I was going to tell you eventually.

[he old]

We are working together, I assure you!

[astronomics]

... for those of us who don't know, what... are these scissors, exactly?

[nachosquire]

They're.. they're magical scissors. You can use them to cut portals into other dimensions, it's how Star and I met each other in the first place. Because we're from, y'know. Different dimensions.

[His jimmies are so ruffled right now.]

They could honestly.. probably cut through magical objects, they're that powerful.

[but he's just speaking from like guessing he dont know hes just mad]

[astronomics]

So they create two portals, then? To connect two places.

[ A beat. ]

Had they been tried here before this? Would they work?

[nachosquire]

I don't know.

[Marco shakes his head a little bit.]

I didn't even know there was a pair here until.. just now.

[lekmet]

But there might be some kind of magical barrier around this place, and if that's the case then the scissors.. probably wouldn't work very well. At least not for portals.

[not_over_yet]

...If that is the real wand, Kit may have been persuaded to retrieve the thing so it could be destroyed?

That really does nothing to explain the murder, though.

[nachosquire]

...yeah, I guess it doesn't. Lekmet doesn't have human hands.

[upgradeit]

Dimensional - do not tell me we have scissors that can cut through spacetime and nobody told me!

[angelgoatdemon]

Your boyfriend had one and didnt tell you?

[upgradeit]

Yes, that's absolutely what we talk about on our dates. "Hey, Marco! Once I nearly got stuck in a pocket dimension trying to save somebody I don't even know. Has anything like that ever happened to you?"

[nachosquire]

....wait. Has something like that happened to you?

[upgradeit]

. . . I'll tell you about it later.

[He doesn't want to, but "hey funny story after I nearly killed a man, I jumped into a portal to save his daughter" is too complicated and involves a lot of backstory.]

[nachosquire]

I feel like there's a lot you need to tell me about later, Hicchan.

[these secret lives we lead]

[upgradeit]

[wait until marco hears about the SECOND time hiro fucked up and his robots ended up in the hands of the bad guys.]

. . . it's not as bad as the time I left all my friends on and island because I was mad.

[upgradeit]

[proud of u, bae. you're learning!!]

[nachosquire]

[hes trying!!]