week 9 - trial

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week nine trial



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[godwhisperer]

[Once he's revealed his face, he's immediately coming at him practically snarling in hatred. Actually, someone might want to stop him before he tries to strangle Lithuania, because he looks like he might.]

Fair?

Villain, you dare speak of such?

[pandacea]

[May is not going to be the person to stop him. Her kunai are already out.]

He does not deserve something as merciful as an execution he no doubt prepared for himself! If he is the mastermind, he could easily escape from it! Let us kill him now and be sure of his death!

[vytis]

Use those on me and you'll have to condemn another to the vote, Miss May.

[pandacea]

You won't fool me! Once we've found the mastermind, the game has ended! There will be no need for another execution!

[vytis]

"If the correct culprit is not unanimously selected, all players save the culprit will be executed." [Lithuania quotes the special rules perfectly.] If I'm not here to be selected, what will you do?

[vytis]

Goodness, if you kill me now, who are you going to execute at the end of this trial?

[Ruta jumps up onto Lithuania's lap.]

[pasodoble]

( And here comes Spain. He'll try to cut between everyone, placing himself between Lithuania and and anyone that might come for him. )

Stop, everyone. ( Is this diplomacy. ) No one is attacking anyone yet. Let him explain first.

[inthebones]

No one is attacking anyone at all. If we don't execute him, we all die. It's as simple as that.

We've gotten this far; we won't throw away everything we've fought for now, at the end, in a fit of passion.

[pasodoble]

Then you can have May put away her... knife! ( Kunai, whatever. ) All we have to do is vote for him to end this and there's still plenty of time before we have to cast our votes.

I can't be the only one that wants an explanation. ( This part isn't so much addressed to Susan as it is to everyone listening. ) And what about the theory from yesterday? That he isn't himself right now?

[inthebones]

...We already have one.

[Susan sighs slightly. Marlow has the letter, but...]

The person Mordswell was referring to in his diary was Lithuania. Mordswell created a disease that killed all of his people. Lithuania isn't himself - he never was himself, not when we knew him.

[pasodoble]

( There's a flash in his eyes-- anger-- but he immediately quells it, )

I want to see. I want to see this letter for myself.

[inthebones]

...He has it now.

If he won't relinquish it, I can quote it for you.

[pasodoble]

( And after reading the letter and even having Stiles the sole remaining expert on Eastern Europe that isn't Lithuania read it )

... I still don't believe it. ( Denial at it's best. ) Even if the letter is true, there's more to this; I know it.

( Except he doesn't really know. )

[inthebones]

What more could there be? Do you need a ten page signed confession in triplicate? It explains his moral degeneration, though I admit the motive remains unclear apart from spite against the world.

[pasodoble]

If this is is really his game, why would he set rules he doesn't like? Why would he make himself go through all of the same incentives each week--

( ... But if Lithuania's people were already dead, didn't that make most of the incentives useless against him. )

[inthebones]

Apparently, it's the only way he can die for good. I haven't the least idea what he means.

[godwhisperer]

[That will stop him, at least, though whether it's the dog or the words isn't clear. He's still watching with hate, however.]

Coward, put her down, lest she be swallowed to hell with you. Though you do not deserve her loyalty, I will not defile it.

[vytis]

[One quick command and Ruta hops off of Lithuania's lap again, though she sits next to the chair he's in.]

I have no desire to see her harmed, though she's a little defensive when it comes to me, you understand.

[godwhisperer]

Of course.

[He'd give Lithuania credit for caring about the dog, but he hates him too much.]

You speak of fairness...yet, that group. What you forced them to do...how was that within the rules of your game?

[vytis]

People have to make difficult decisions, nothing more than that.

[godwhisperer]

If you truly wished to involve us in your game, the incentives would have sufficed. There was no need to force them.

How few of us truly played! How pathetic your experiment!

[vytis]

It's true, this time things were a little different.

[godwhisperer]

I believe I understand. You want to teach unfairness. You want to show cruelty. But you accomplished nothing. You could not conquer us. Even those who fell into your web voluntarily...even before we knew it was you, you had lost control.

You are no demon...you are nothing. Your pointless exercise has caused nothing but my contempt for you and your pathetic tribe.

[vytis]

[Lithuania's eyes narrow.] And what did my people ever do to you, to make you speak of them in such a way?

[godwhisperer]

They created you, did they not? Twisted by plague...hah. You are a low coward and I do believe you have always been a low coward.