day two - aftermath

[guestcontrol]

dreamland day two 38 players remaining. As the voting period comes to an end, a bell goes off from the ticket machine, and the metal bars blocking the tunnel at the end of the Hall of Mirrors lifts. A voice speaks over the loudspeaker: "Attention, guests! Please make your way onto the ride! For your safety, keep your hands and arms inside and do not attempt to leave your seat!" Through the tunnel, single cars on a track stop and wait for each remaining player to step on. Don't dawdle, or your bracelet will begin to beep a warning. Once in a car, the safety bar locks you tightly inside, unable to move. The car trundles along a dark, twisting track, nearly veering into cartoonish obstacles, but veering away at the last moment. Music and cackling laughter echoes loudly through the ride as you drive faster and faster. Suddenly, your car veers off to the left, through a courtroom, where a towering cartoon judge threatens to bang a gavel. Your car jerks and evades, but somewhere, before one car can pass, the gavel comes down and the car spins off to the side, through a dark doorway. Each car comes to the end of the ride, but doesn't stop, and instead jerks into motion and, even faster, veers through the ride a second time. This time, your car does not enter the courtroom, but the doors to your left nonetheless open, showing instead of a courtroom a red room burning with cartoon flames. Above the flames hangs a corpse in a noose. The body of Levi hangs from a white rope noose, as a cackling voices pronounces: Innocent The ride turns away once more, and comes to a stop. A list of votes has been pinned on the wall for your perusal. You now have the rest of the evening to explore the park, before night comes again. character statuses private conversations graveyard This is a general post-vote mingle encompassing the time from the end of the trial (about 5 PM until the fireworks at 11 PM). You are encouraged and welcome to backtag discussions in this post until the next day post, or to have afternoon private conversations.

Comments

[perfectstrike]

...I know.

[It's quiet, and if it were anyone but Ibuki, they might not have even heard her at all.

Peko curls in a little toward herself, taking a breath and gritting her teeth to keep from crying again. She doesn't... really have the heart to tell Ibuki that she'd never have gotten to sing for her or Koizumi on the island. And who knows who else...

She can't even try to say something comforting about how both Peko herself and Koizumi are here, so maybe Togami and Hanamura are okay too? Since she definitely doesn't want to tell Ibuki what she's missing.]

[poyoyon]

[ But if there's one thing the SHSL Light Music Club Member has...it's good ears. Even a whisper is something she can catch. Not that those ears have done her much good here, nor her memory for things she hears.

If she knew how many had died after the first two, Ibuki would break a little. Peko's wise to stay quiet. ]

Ibuki misses everyone, even though we didn't all get along that well.

[perfectstrike]

[Maybe somehow noise will become really important and Ibuki will get to show off her listening prowess!!! Go Ibuki go!!!

But Peko just hums again, staying curled in and gripping at her opposite elbows until her knuckles turn white.]

Yes...

[She opens her mouth, as if she's going to continue; add something about how she's not sure what to do, or what Kuzuryuu would want her to do, or even how she's supposed to make her own decisions. But she just closes her mouth and shakes her head again, lapsing into silence. She has to protect her classmates now; they're the only thing she has left. And... it's what Kuzuryuu would want, isn't it? So she has to stay strong for them.]