TRIAL IV

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Trial IV

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The story presses onward as you gather in this now familiar "courtroom" to deliberate the deaths of two more of your number. By now there's more space for everyone with the population dwindling down to twenty, and by this weekend's end it will dip ever further. But maybe in a time like this more space is needed, though one most always be mindful of the clock.

Adora and Norton Campbell are dead, and the price must be repaid.

[OOC NOTE: Please keep in mind the only mod run checks are those that directly involve a piece of evidence found during the investigation. Those checks that involve player participation will rely on each player's willingless to partake in the check, for the sake of keeping IC choices intact]

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[hellochildren]

Fair enough.

[It takes him a moment to think, because he's just not used to this. He's not the kind person-this wasn't him at all. It was almost someone entirely different.

But in that moment, Professor Pericles takes on the most caring and gentle tone he's had since being here.]

Tell me about your friends, Rika. I...I want to hear about zem.

[eternaljune]

...

[Rika bows her head weakly.]

My friends...I almost took for granted the fact that we are friends, in a way--even in the most tragic worlds I've seen, the constant was always that for a few small moments of relief, I'd have them. I would have given up a long time ago without them.

Rena, Mion, Keiichi...Satoko...my wish was to escape the tragedy so we all could have a happy future.

That's why...I wanted to--

[Then her attention is stolen away by the words that dash her chances to get that wish.]

[hellochildren]

[He hates this so much, why does he hate this so much, why does it hurt so much, it shouldn't hurt this much, there's no logical reason why it should hurt this much, it shouldn't be hurting this much...

And yet it does.]

[crimson_flamel]

[Solidarity on that you grumpy little pigeon.]

[eternaljune]

[She can't help feeling a bit bad now. Pericles was more understanding than she ever expected.]

...I guess I owe you the full truth. I lied a little--only about the specifics of my wish, not my entire situation. That was the truth.

The real tragedy I wanted to escape has been going on for much longer...it might technically make me a little older than you, Professor. Years can be a burden, can't they?

[hellochildren]

Zey...zey certainly can be.

[It shouldn't be like this. It should've been someone else. Someone he could just easily hate for killing Adora. Someone he wouldn't miss. Someone that he wouldn't have a conversation with and even be tempted to help in the event that he could. Someone-someone-

He swallows down the breath he didn't know he was holding.]

It...it vas still for your friends, zough, correct? Your friends, just as much as yourself?

[eternaljune]

...yes. They never remembered it the way I have, but they've died almost as many times I have. Whether it be Hinamizawa Syndrome, each other, or the disaster those people killed me to enact, the people I loved were equally as doomed to tragedy.

I wanted to escape for me, yes, but...I love them. Mion, whose spontaneous club games kept me sane throughout those repeating times and who never succumbed to the illness. Rena, who adored me like an older sister would and who would always try to reach out to people even if it cost her. Keiichi, who said he'd destroy fate with ease and gave me the hope to keep going. Even Satoko--even if she dragged me back into that tragedy and tried to hurt me...she's still my best friend, and I wouldn't accept a world without her.

I love them all, and I want all of us to live past 1983.

[hellochildren]

[...four people...four people, plus her...one that even betrayed her, yet she still cares-

Pericles has to take a deep breath to calm himself. Because he doesn't want to know what would happen if he didn't.]

I...must apologize, zen. Zat you will not be able to get you wish.

I hope...if possible, we may fint a way to help zem. Get zem to live long, long past 1983, even if you won't be able to.