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 There are some cheap cardboard cutouts of monsters and city skylines, cameras that look pretty out of date, and the whole place looks like it was built on a shoestring budget.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

[southgatekept]

No! I'm not performing for you, I mean it! And I... I won't hesitate...to fight my way out, if I must!

[spacejacket]

Please, by all means, try! That's just the kind of intensity the broadcast needs.

[southgatekept]

What is even the point of all this?

[spacejacket]

To cause humanity to stop dreaming. I need to prove to someone that optimism doesn't work, before he finds out the hard way and spoils Tomorrowland in the process.

[southgatekept]

You... You're just forcing your cynical views on others. On...the whole world! I will not stand by and let this happen.

[ She keeps saying that but like, she actually seems to mean it this time? Fur all puffed up and definitely in A Fighting Stance. ]

Cease this! Let us free!

[spacejacket]

You don't understand. I projected the apocalypse into their minds, and they all loved it! They made books, movies, forum roleplays about it! Humans are cynical. I'm just the only one who accepts it, and I will not let them spoil Tomorrowland, too!

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Gee, maybe that means it's your way of thinking that's wrong.

[spacejacket]

I tried to save them from themselves, and they didn't want to be saved. They chose this.

[southgatekept]

They are also full of hope. If you let them be...they can create wonderful, beautiful things! And I will not let you sully that, whatever your Tomorrowland is!

[ aaaand unless someone tries to stop her, she's gonna start running at him and just. fire shards of fiery ice at him from her mouth, because Digimon. ]

Blazing Ice!

[spacejacket]

[ he makes a very... undignified sound, and presses a button on his bracelet... thing. a forcefield appears and the ice hits it instead. ]

I am not going to be killed by a magical talking rabbit!

[southgatekept]

And I am not going to be used to hurt humanity! All of them deserve to live the way they choose! Suzie deserves to be happy!!

Blazing Ice!

[ and here we go again ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[You know what, let's just see if we can sneak up on evil Hugh from behind.]

[orwellgirl]

This sounds like a "you" problem? And not a "me" problem?

[spacejacket]

And yet here you are, and you're going to help me do it.

[orwellgirl]

I have never helped anyone in my life, and I am definitely not starting now!