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

[keyofimagination]

[He reads the letter, shaking a little more as he does so.]

"One soul"...?

It's... it's in his handwriting.

[forgottenfounder]

We found it... on Walt's body.

[And it was probably one of the worst things he's ever seen.]

[darnsitall]

[Just kinda reads over Rod's shoulder and fffffuuuuucccckkk]

[keyofimagination]

He... he didn't even try to stop it. He just allowed it to happen...

[lusito]

[Also looking over here to read now and...]

See, I knew he was a tool.

[NOT HELPING JOSH]

[darnsitall]

He didn't want to, though. But he didn't have a choice.

[Gosh does that sound familiar?]

[keyofimagination]

[He might be a hypocrite, but it doesn't pull him out of his crushing horror.]

But he made EPCOT. He said he knew from the beginning how it would all end...

[darnsitall]

Maybe he felt that way when he first made EPCOT, but he clearly felt differently by the end. He loved you. He loved all of you.

[terribibble]

He still did it, didn't he?

[If you love someone, there comes a point where you don't want to actively fuck them over. He let his wife go for that reason, even though it killed him to do it. He didn't just erase her.

And he could have, so he knows what he's talking about.]

[darnsitall]

[can you guys stop she's trying to make this better]

I think we all know very well what someone's capable of when they're desperate and afraid.

[fairlypushy]

It's less that and more . . . I don't think he could have stopped it. That's - in my experience, once you make a pact it's hard to break.

[terribibble]

[Hey don't you fuckin pull that on him]

There's still a line.

[keyofimagination]

[You guys are making this so freaking conflicting this is terrible]

[lusito]

... Look, Rod: does knowing any of this change your feelings about wanting to save your friends or at least get us out of this situation alive right now?

[keyofimagination]

... Of course I still want everyone to be safe.

[lusito]

Then let's do something about that, because sitting here discussing what your ex did or didn't do isn't helping us get any closer to that happening. It's just wasting time before that one [indicating Bill] gets bored of the drama and starts trying to kill everyone here.

[keyofimagination]

I want to believe it so badly, but...

He didn't even want to see me once he found out the Other Side hadn't taken me, Sally. How do I know he ever cared about me?

[darnsitall]

It's right there in the letter. He can't bear the thought of you upset at him.

[sentree]

...He kept your letters. Didn't he?

[ She hates advocating for him. ]

Remember, Roddy. It's complicated.

[fairlypushy]

. . . It's true. For all his flaws, he - he loved all of the things he created.