Second Trial

[yourghosthost]

[Just like last week, as soon as everyone’s done investigating and back in the stretching room, the doors close and everyone slowly descends. As it does so, the Ghost Host's voice once again echoes across the room.]

Tell me. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it just your imagination?

[This is apparently a thing he does.

When it stops, everyone is once again welcomed to the graveyard 25 tombstones arranged in a circle. Now there are three new epitaphs to the newly dearly departed Mulan, Princess Anna, and Sophie. They are dressed with their own rose and class of cognac to each of their tombstone.

Here lies Ping Mulan
Wanted to do anything for honor
It’s a shame she is now a goner

Here lies Princess Anna
She stumbled upon a bride’s wedding
And earned herself a nice beheading

Here lies Sophie Hatter
She was a wonderful little maid
But sadly went and got betrayed

When everyone goes to their places, the Ghost Host speaks again.]

I suppose you all remember from last week how this works. Remember you only have one vote.

[Well there’s only one way to go now.]

Comments

[amadeusrockette]

Redirect your anger. [Julia tips her head slightly toward the Ghost Host.] All our hands have been forced here, Star. We sent Mulan to her death and we're about to send him to his.

[ilovepuppies]

Mulan didn't do it on purpose! And she tried to fix it and the ghosts made it so nobody could help her!

He just- he planned this!

[amadeusrockette]

For his brother! To keep him safe. [She's not saying it's right, but also she knows the banality of evil.] Don't lie and say you wouldn't have done the same.

[terribibble]

[Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing.]

I think a lot of us would have. If... if they'd threatened my son, really threatened him, not just left me a photo...

[He shrugs helplessly. He doesn't want to admit he'd kill someone, especially not someone who didn't deserve it, but...]

I don't know if I could've killed someone but I would've been ready to die. You have to figure he knew the risk he was takin'.

[And in that way he can respect Tadashi a great deal, even if he still can't exactly condone what he did.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Don't lie and say you wouldn't have done the same.

Star doesn't have any siblings, but she does have Marco, and it wasn't that long ago that she did something awful and desperate to save him.]

But I... I...

[And now she's crying.]

[amadeusrockette]

[Her gay ass can't take seeing girls cry and now she feels bad.]

Star . . .