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

[chronic]

That fucking idiot. He died for nothing. I'd say 'good riddance to bad rubbish', but he's totally fucked us in like every hole.

[belgian]

[Facepalm. Muttering to herself in German. Dammit Levi.]

[shoutoku_administrator]

[After all that insanity, Miko is MAD.]

Innocent? Innocent?! You fool, what did you hope to accomplish?! You caused as much harm as any VIP could have with your pointless scheme!

[jingler]

Agreed. Though I can't say I feel very sorry for him.

[It was a gruesome way to die, but Levi brought this on himself by lying and thinking everyone would turn a blind eye to it.]

[chronic]

All he did was screw us even further. I can't even imagine what the hell he hoped to accomplish.

[paws_and_rewind]

[ That was... TERRIFYING. In many different ways.

Missile did a good job in some respects, but he's not really happy about the outcome. He lies down with his head on his paws, bereft of his usual zest and spirit for the moment. ]

[mediumburgers]

He... he was not guilty... except of being a jerk...

[ Mild brainfreeze over here, did we just heck up PROBABLY ]

[ionicwoman]

[Anise looks quite shaken]

What the hell was the point of all of that if he was really innocent?!

[belgian]

[Oh no, sad puppy.] It's okay! You did your best. He shouldn't have been claiming to be the detective anyway.

[photonement]

Language.

[She wags her finger at him listlessly, not able to look down at him.]

None of us need an image like that in our heads.

[jingler]

It was as I said before -- arrogance was his downfall. He thought we were cowards who wouldn't be able to kill anyone and that needed to lead us all...and now he's seen for himself how wrong he was.

[chainjailer]

[Kurapika is so drained he can only collapse against the wall outside of the ride. There was nothing he could have done, the votes were overwhelming. Not that he was sure he could have defended him anyway--but finding out he was innocent after all...

He can't even bury the body.]

Why...? After all that.

Graveyard...

[perfectstrike]

[Peko's just standing there, stock still. She'd have given Usa-chan back to Honey before the ride itself. She fucked up. If this were back on the island, they'd all be dead. And she can't help but think it's her fault.

As soon as they're released, she's turned on her heel and walked away with purpose. Her footsteps are a little shaky, and she's clutching at her chest, but she's moving too quickly to be stopped unless someone runs to catch up with her.

She can be found sitting next to Kuzuryuu's grave with her knees pulled up to her chest, her head in her arms, until the fireworks. And even then, it doesn't look like she plans on moving until she has no choice.]

[photoshot]

[ it's definitely a shock. Aya tries to rally and not look shaken, but isn't very successful at all. ]

Mr. Levi spoke to you yesterday when he claimed detective, didn't he?

What did he say?

[siggey]

God DAMN IT!

[ The doors don't open. They're probably not going to, until tomorrow.

Won't stop me from hitting them with as much force as I could muster, anyway. ]

It didn't have to end this way!

[chainjailer]

He just handed me that note, like I said. [He sounds tired.]

[siggey]

Levi's not the real detective. That's what you were saying, wasn't it?

[photoshot]

Was that really all?

[paws_and_rewind]

heeeeeeen

[ If he'd done his best, then they wouldn't have lost an innocent but not very nice person!

...And they still have to do this again and again and again! He doesn't know exactly how many times. He's a very smart dog, but once numbers get higher than three it kind of all sludges into "lots" and "lots and lots". ]

[chainjailer]

He said it might not be very useful if he wasn't killed that night. But besides that, I already said everything. The conversation wasn't very long.

[poyoyon]

[ yEAH. Even though she knew they weren't on the island, even though he knew Monobear wasn't running this (he couldn't stay quiet this long) Ibuki's reaction to the thought of a failed trial was colored by that first trial, the only one she remembers, and the rules repeated endlessly. They'd failed, and the true killer would graduate, leaving all of them to die...

But the ride lets them all off, and it's...not okay, but the four of them are still in one piece.

Ibuki's idea of comforting people is to make them do crazy thing with her until they forget to be worried, usually. Even so, she hesitates as she goes over to Peko, entirely uncertain of what to do in this particular case. She'd never realized Peko and Kuzuryuu were close. ]

Peko-chan?

[belgian]

[Belgium will try to pet the sadness away!] The medical team will protect you [or they'd better] so you can keep trying to help us out. If you want, I can make you some dinner.

[godwhisperer]

[Bending down to pet.]

Shh. It's okay. Shh.

You are so brave. You saved the life of Legion. You've done well.

[paws_and_rewind]

[ Wuff. Not really that enthusiastic of a bark. They've been over this quite a few times and now Levi's... Missile just doesn't get it! ]

[photoshot]

He was innocent, took an unneeded risk, and paid for it.