Mock Gaiden Trial

[superstarlineup]

[After everyone has finished investigating the horrendous death of a poor dog (and also a couple of disasters who somehow gotten themselves killed, everyone will hear a loud click from the direction of Superstar Studios. A few moments later, the Agent’s voice is heard.]

Ok that’s enough rehearsal there! Time for the show! Everyone break a leg okay?

[As everyone enters the Studio, the first thing that hits them is the blinding lights, making it impossible to see anything for the first few moments.

Once their eyes adjust, they’ll realize that they are definitely in a really tacky movie studios. There are some cheap cardboard cutouts of monsters and city skylines, cameras that look pretty out of date, and the whole place looks like it was built on a shoestring budget.

In the middle of the studio there are rows of directors chairs for every guest that woke up here, with Rod, Ghost Host, and Stan’s chairs just knocked over. In front of them stands the Agent, grinning in an extremely uncanny way.]

I’m impressed! Three bodies is impressive after that first week of nothin’! I’m gonna make sure that culprit gets an extra special reward if they manage to get away with it.

[A small pause, then:]

Okay, my shining stars. You all have to figure out who killed your fellow actors so they don’t get away with it! If they do, they get their reward while everyone else will be punished instead.

There’s no set time limit, but make sure you don’t make it borin’. The cameras are rolling and I ain’t going to let the people watch another boring average reality show!

Comments

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

I could do a lot of things, you know. Tug on his arms, his legs, dye him a stylish new color.

...Put him on, I guess? [She doesn't... really want to do that.]

[mostwantedfrog]

[No matter how much Eclipsa doesn't want to do that, Matt wants it even less. He visibly tenses when she brings up wearing him.]

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[.................she holds up Constantine.

Above her hand.

Considering.]

[orwellgirl]

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

1/2

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[She considers this in just utter confusion, calculating the cost/benefit.]

...Boy I hope this doesn't make things weird with the hubby.

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[And she puts on the Constantine.]

[mostwantedfrog]

[The moment Eclipsa's hand settles inside the puppet, he jerks, suddenly full of life once again.

In that same moment, Eclipsa becomes... difficult to see. Sharpay, obviously, can see her clear as day, but everyone else will have trouble focusing on her unless they really, really focus. It's like she's faded into the background.

Matt Vogel looks distinctly uncomfortable as Constantine looks around, confused. And then the frog speaks.]

What has happened?

[His voice... well.

It sounds like Eclipsa trying to speak in a bad Russian accent.]

[awardnothawk]

Oh, I hate that.

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

Big mood, darling.

[mostwantedfrog]

Hate what? What is happening, anyway? Is like I... passed out when that cat furry picked me up. And- who is that man?

[Matt Vogel looks even more uncomfortable when Constantine gestures to him.]

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[...She waves her other hand in front of Constantine. Can he even see that......]

[mostwantedfrog]

[Nope! At the absolute most, he might be able to feel the brief breeze from her hand waving, but he can't see the hand itself.]

[awardnothawk]

That is your puppeteer. Eclipsa stole you and put you on, which is an incredibly awful sentence I never wanted to say.

[orwellgirl]

...

That is...

AMAZING! [THROWS GHOSTAVE'S CORPSE TO THE WAYSIDE] Me next!

[southgatekept]

Where did she go?! She disappeared!

[orwellgirl]

It seems that fusing with this frog parasite... makes you incorporeal? It's so cool!

[southgatekept]

It's like some strange form of biomerging...sort of.

[ ...Then she starts considering- ] Does that make that man Constantine's Tamer, instead of Sovereign? Or something of equivalence? Do all other creatures draw off the power of humans...no, any other being, to help them achieve greater power?

[ She sighs, musing to herself. Please excuse her, she's from the philosophical Digimon series. ]

My Sovereign...everyday I learn you were more misguided than I ever could've thought.

[awardnothawk]

No, she's still there. That's the part I hate.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

...That's the worst thing I've seen in a week.

[inamuseum]

... I miss artifacts that just kill people they don't like.

[dannydorito]

Holy shit, did he just butt-vore Spades?

[awardnothawk]

Please don't ever say that again. Ever.

[dannydorito]

Which part, "Spades," "holy shit," or "butt vore".

[stinkypete]

....Yeah, um. Pete don't like this one bit.

[dannydorito]

He would make a STYLISH purse. And he's not even alive right now, so it wouldn't count as- "murder".

[He makes the biggest airquotes around the word.]