ENDGAME GROUP 2: The Trial (Log 2)

[hasagun]

[After Remy and Thalia stumble upon Bill’s makeshift trial room, it doesn’t take very long for the others to appear within the trial room. There are podiums set up as per usual, but there’s...really nothing keeping you to using them. The whole place smells terribly of ketchup, and is completely gold, each wal covered in massive tapestries.

There’s also a closed door at the back of the room. Not the way you came in. Guess someone needs to get in and out.]

WELCOME, TO YOUR TRIAL, KIDDOS! I’M NOT SUPER ENTHUSED ‘BOUT THE WHOLE “BURNING DOWN MY GIFT SHOP” THING, BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PARK ANYWAY! GOTTA HAVE SOME FUN BEFORE YOU DIE!

(ooc: this is the second and final log for group 2 - if you weren’t here for the previous log, feel free to use this as a jumping-in point!)

Comments

[forgottenfounder]

Creative differences like... wanting to kill people, or something? What could you have possibly wanted to make Walt hate you that much?

[terribibble]

Maybe it wasn't a disagreement with him. Maybe it had somethin' to do with his dad.

[Y'know. That guy with the terrible name.]

[rech]

Ub Iwerks.

[terribibble]

[yeah. terrible

thinks the man named fiddleford hadron mcgucket]

[angelgoatdemon]

Back in the animation studio on our way to hell, we found newspaper clippings and a photo of the Fantasia premiere. Critics were convinced Walt didn't need Ub Iwerks even though they worked together really well.

There's also a photo of Walt looking incredibly bitter, like he hated him for making the movie a success. [Gestures at the devil]

[rech]

Close!

Fantasia bombed.

[angelgoatdemon]

...Not to agree with you, but Walt sounds like a giant tool for picking anything over artistic merit.

[Everyones a critic,]

[rech]

Exactly! Thank you.

[lusito]

Trust me, he was kind of a tool when we got to meet him in person too.

[rech]

My dad created me to be artistic. Walt wanted a “funny” character. That’s why he made Mickey.

...I can’t laugh. I can’t make jokes.

[forgottenfounder]

Who? You mean... Ub?

...You really can't joke at all?

[rech]

I can’t. I wasn’t made for that reason.

Walt wanted something more marketable.

[terribibble]

[squints]

You killed you on account of you didn't sell well enough?

[fucking... yikes]

[rech]

You ever see Fantasia? Hell’s Bells?

[terribibble]

Uh.

[Well he did have a son. Haha. Upsetting how he's started thinking that in past tense consistently. Like he's got used to the idea that he's not welcome in Tate's life anymore. Mm.]

Fantasia, sure, bits and pieces of it.

[rech]

Oh. Bet you were one of the hippies who brought it back in the ‘60s.

Glad for the recognition. But we didn’t make that film so you could smoke pot to it.

[terribibble]

[HEY]

I watched it with my kid.

[He also absolutely smoked up to it but that's neither here nor there]

[forgottenfounder]

Hey! Fantastia's a classic!

[rech]

I know that!

I was in it.

[sentree]

So he threw you away. [ She sounds almost a little impatient. ] Alright, he sounds like some grade-A metrokoites, I'll give you that, but then you...what, just what are you trying to do here? [ She gestures around at the trial room. ] With all of this, with the rituals.

[rech]

Hades gave me an opportunity. To get back at Walt. I’m not going to let you ruin that.

It’s just like he told me: you disable the crystal and pen when the symbol is activated. I’m not about to let you do that.

[sentree]

Hades, yeah, let's talk about him. [ Pushes forward. ] You guys were working together, weren't you? So why would he suddenly change all that? Aren't you mad at him?

[rech]

Why would he change what?

[fairlypushy]

[Wait, wait. No, that doesn't make sense.]

You know you die if the pen is deactivated, right?

[It's actually a little unclear if that's what destroying the pen does, but that's what she's under the impression it does so.]

[rech]

Pssh. Doubt it. You just don’t want it to happen.

Hades is my only friend. He wouldn’t let it happen.