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DIE HARD [1st Trial]
Once the investigations wrap up, a self-driving shuttle comes out to the X-Class Akudama, requesting them to board in accordance to the fifth ordinance of their paroles and insisting that none of the group stay behind. A few of the large robot aircraft seen in the late Marcille's Uto-Uto PSA distantly occupies the air above the shuttle, surely a coincidence.
Once everyone is on the shuttle, it drives east - this is an area the X-Classes are not usually granted access to, that looks like some kind of entertainment district judging by the number of colorful spotlights they pass on the way to their destination. A Stadium comes into view, surrounded by faintly glowing poles that tower around it. There's apparently an entrance that can fit the shuttle, because it takes them directly inside and lets them all out right in the middle of the stadium. At first, it looks like little more than a metal stage with some podiums, surrounded by empty seats. Several cameras are placed in strategic places, getting as many angles as possible. Each podium has a screen projecting a hologram in front of it, and on the top of the podium the evidence has been helpfully loaded on a touch screen for each Akudama. For now, the screen projects an image of each of the Akudama's faces and their titles, so people know where to go - even the ones that can't read! But you can also display evidence with a press of your touch screen. It will float up beside them just like a certain lawyer game!
Soon though, there's a faint buzz, and hard light scenery forms all around them. Visually, it looks exactly like a dungeon - "stone" walls surround them, covered in flickering torches. Though they are still just transparent enough to see the audience seats, they effectively form a barrier, and the podiums take on the stone-like texture as well. Zealot's drone flies in from above this wall to join them, keeping its distance but carrying a camera with it - Physicist is also present, although she is in a cove of the dungeon behind a thick "glass" barrier. She looks a bit smug as six holo-touch keyboards and monitors surround her, but the scene is still unfolding. The sun in the sky darkens and shines with a solar eclipse, letting the trial room stay in the neon-glow darkness. Finally, the "audience" takes its seat. Not real people. A host of golden Noh masks appear to beam down into seats around the dome, watching the proceedings, stern and silent. Occasionally, they all make a slight movement such as a head tilt, in unison. They're creepy.
Is someone gonna explain what's going on here? Well....
((The trial will last until 7PM EST, which will be similar to the duration in game. Good luck.
The voting post is available right here!))
Once everyone is on the shuttle, it drives east - this is an area the X-Classes are not usually granted access to, that looks like some kind of entertainment district judging by the number of colorful spotlights they pass on the way to their destination. A Stadium comes into view, surrounded by faintly glowing poles that tower around it. There's apparently an entrance that can fit the shuttle, because it takes them directly inside and lets them all out right in the middle of the stadium. At first, it looks like little more than a metal stage with some podiums, surrounded by empty seats. Several cameras are placed in strategic places, getting as many angles as possible. Each podium has a screen projecting a hologram in front of it, and on the top of the podium the evidence has been helpfully loaded on a touch screen for each Akudama. For now, the screen projects an image of each of the Akudama's faces and their titles, so people know where to go - even the ones that can't read! But you can also display evidence with a press of your touch screen. It will float up beside them just like a certain lawyer game!
Soon though, there's a faint buzz, and hard light scenery forms all around them. Visually, it looks exactly like a dungeon - "stone" walls surround them, covered in flickering torches. Though they are still just transparent enough to see the audience seats, they effectively form a barrier, and the podiums take on the stone-like texture as well. Zealot's drone flies in from above this wall to join them, keeping its distance but carrying a camera with it - Physicist is also present, although she is in a cove of the dungeon behind a thick "glass" barrier. She looks a bit smug as six holo-touch keyboards and monitors surround her, but the scene is still unfolding. The sun in the sky darkens and shines with a solar eclipse, letting the trial room stay in the neon-glow darkness. Finally, the "audience" takes its seat. Not real people. A host of golden Noh masks appear to beam down into seats around the dome, watching the proceedings, stern and silent. Occasionally, they all make a slight movement such as a head tilt, in unison. They're creepy.
Is someone gonna explain what's going on here? Well....
((The trial will last until 7PM EST, which will be similar to the duration in game. Good luck.
The voting post is available right here!))
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