guiltrip | WEEK 2; TRIAL

TRIAL

Whether you investigated or decided to take it easy, before you know it the speakers crackle to life instructing you to head to the beach. This is a demand not a request, and anyone who doesn't comply will find themselves forcibly moved there by the kitty bots—even if it takes a whole swarm of them.

Once you get there, you'll see that this isn't quite a beach party, instead a gigantic sandbar dotted with some type of constructs has risen out of the sea and tides. The path to the sandbar is solid enough even if it is relatively narrow, and once you arrive you'll find that you're far out in the ocean, way farther than it's comfortable to swim.

And once everyone is gathered, the pathway recedes back into the sea leaving you trapped here, all twenty-eight of you. At least there's ample seating, a kind of amphitheater made of sand with space in the middle for grandstanding or dramatic revelations. Though the area is mostly open, there are lone pieces of sand wall around the edges, maybe to dissuade you from tossing someone into the ocean without stopping you entirely. Thankfully, a lone outhouse rests again one of the walls just in case you need to use the bathroom, though it's not much in the way of actual privacy.

Settle in, get comfortable or just complain about all the sand you'll be tracking back, if you make it back that is. There's still another sacrifice to be chosen after all according to your administrators and—

Maybe you've noticed there's no palm trees or speakers here? It's just you, and the sand. For now.

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For what it's worth, the barrier is impenetrable. My explosions couldn't even scratch it.

But I was in Dove with Baizhu and Skywarp.

I couldn't warp through it either. Or do much shooting at it.

[For an idea of what Baizhu had to put up with.]

What barrier?

Around our cabana. It prevented any of us from going outside.

Hmm, strange. I didn't try to go outside the arcade at all last night, so I didn't notice.

[ look he wasn't about to interrupt let's play paper mario ]

What do you mean what barrier?

Maybe he didn't know.

I didn't know there was a barrier, either.

Beelzebub… Are you stupid?

[Time to be rude for little to no reason!!]

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>:(]

Excuse me?

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let me reply in the right place

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I also didn't know about a barrier.

Are all of you just stupid?!

Haruka.

[ Look, he gets this is a tense situation, but now is not the time. ]

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I didn't know there was one until now. I was planning on staying at the arcade.

It's true, he was busy watching me play Paper Mario.

[ there was a barrier? ]

I will admit that we were quite busy to notice anything such as barrier around the beach.

What did you even do last night...

[Can we discuss this and not Kingfisher, please.]

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Curious. You didn't notice it?

Not at all, but in hindsight, it would've been great to check.

You should try next time. See what happens.

divector - 2023-05-27 21:31 (UTC) - Expand

I suspect that is not the case for those involved in heinous crimes at night.

After all, Chai was within a barrier as well - and he still left it and got murdered. As if it hadn't existed, not for him.

That's what I'm guessing as well. We had the same barrier around our cabana last week when Merlin was killed.

And only around our cabana.

It was..a very interesting time.

[Even minus one roommate, Dove is not equipped with enough room for these shenanigans.]

[Wordlessly, Changsheng hisses at Skywarp]

[Look, he kept them small for a reason!!]

[Changsheng just likes to be rude

And Baizhu thinks it's good information to have, if just very loud.]

[Sorry not sorry, Changsheng.]