Season 1 / Robert McCay - "Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love" [1st Trial Projection]

Robert McCay

Kaoru Naito Kaoru goes to reach into the bag and pauses while some kind of newly trained hesitation flares up and he instead takes the bag by the bottom and dumps it out on the ground to get the thing he can’t quite see out.

Amidst the scraps he dumps out on the ground… Kaoru finds a small plastic rat!

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

"…I doubt he did all three, at the very least. And they could have all been different shooters."

YEAH HE IS. WATCHING KAORU DO THAT NOW TOO, also half expecting some fuck shit like last time to happen and standing ready. …but it's just a rat! Yeah alright, that's fine.

Andrew Edgeworth

This projection definitely favored the number three… "With all these different voices, and perspectives, that seems almost certa-"

Rat.

"Hm, it's almost cute." Andrew's being sarcastic. Probably.

Kaoru Naito

A toy rat… He squeezes it in his hand tight to squish it a bit before holding it by the tail and swinging it a bit like that’s the automatic action he has to take as soon as he’s holding a toy rat.

“You think he killed five or ten more fellas, cap’n?” He jokes back to Ellie. “Long as they don’t reveal he killed a lil mousey, how bad can he be?”

He says while bouncing his toy rat like a yo-yo. He catches it and holds it up to Andrew and puts his fingers on the back of its head to wiggle its face like it’s sniffing or squeaking at him. Wiggle wiggle. He just does that and seems very happy to be doing it. He loves having a little toy to move around.

Then he’s going to walk to the mannequin and looks at the splash of “blood” and tries to look at the angle: where would the shooter have to be in the scene to have done this?

Robert McCay

Kaoru Naito Then he’s going to walk to the mannequin and looks at the splash of “blood” and tries to look at the angle: where would the shooter have to be in the scene to have done this?

Ellie Carter She follows Kaoru’s gaze once he gets serious about investigating… Yeah, where did this come from if there’s not another mannequin here?

You walk deeper into the set, past the strange angles of the forced-perspective walls, and find a second mannequin. It wields a small pistol with a silencer. This one also has a play button on its chest, but…

With a mighty creak, the stage begins to turn on its own.

Ellie Carter

Ellie laughs a bit at Kaoru. Leave it to Snickers to find a toy. She follows Kaoru's gaze once he gets serious about investigating… Yeah, where did this come from if there's not another mannequin here?

Ellie Carter

Aw, fuck, now it's moving…! She'll hurry over to the new mannequin to press the button, feeling like she'll miss it if the scene changes.

Robert McCay

"They… didn't touch the lever, did they?"

"What the hell is goin' on?!"

Ellie Carter She’ll hurry over to the new mannequin to press the button, feeling like she’ll miss it if the scene changes.

Kaoru Naito He’d have done it if Ellie didn’t, so he’s going to get a look at the mannequin while there with her before it goes while she does that.

The shooting stance of this mannequin is stiff but confident. There's not enough time to look for a manufacturer, but the pistol is pretty nondescript, cheap even. Pressing the "play" button on the center of its chest starts a crackling tape recording, just a few seconds long:

A hollow, hoarse voice whispers. "I'm sorry."

With that, the centrifugal force of the rotating stage starts to pull you away…

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Vincent is stuck between being on the stage or off once he sees the others have found a secret area, and after a moment curses under his breath and quickly tries to join Kaoru and Ellie on the backstage, AAAAAA sorry Andrew king u can stay behind.

Kaoru Naito

Whatever, what’ll it do, kill them? He’d have done it if Ellie didn’t, so he’s going to get a look at the mannequin while there with her before it goes while she does that. They need to lock in and find the important details if the warden’s are going to be following their leads.

Andrew Edgeworth

Andrew curses under his breath as he goes within range of sight, and sees the other three around the final mannequin.

"Whatever you're doing, do it quick!"

Robert McCay

The stage rotates back to the first scene… but it doesn't stop. It passes the second, and the third, and the first and the second and the third, faster and faster as pieces of the set go flying and the curtains start to billow in the wind.

After a spin or two, the prisoners on the stage are flung off onto the impossibly dark floor, sore but unharmed for now. Looks like that may not last long, though…

The living statues sway on their podiums in the midst of the technicolor storm.

"Ah Jesus, he must be panicking–"

"I told y'all! Y'shouldn't have come here! Just– just leave, okay? There's the door!"

The Sheriff points, and when you turn, a glowing red door stands in the darkness. That wasn't there before, was it? But never mind–

A chunk of plywood barely misses you. Time to get a move on. In a rush, before anyone can get hurt, you open the glowing door and tumble through into the light…

MILGRAM

Just as you’re beginning to wonder where else there could possibly be to go, everything around you shutters into darkness. A breath, a blink, and then you’re once again standing in the relatively empty courtroom. Any injuries or other strangeness incurred during the projection has vanished in like fashion. (Sadly, this includes the rat.) It’s all finished, it seems, though the wardens still have to release the prisoner from the lone chair themselves–

"AIIIEEEEEE!!!"

The shriek that fills the courtroom barely sounds like the Robert you know. He's a shuddering mess, writhing against the straps binding him to the MILGRAM Projection System. He sounds almost like a child as he whines–

"Make it stop– p-please, make it stop, it hurts, it hurts…"

He trails off incoherently, looking like he's on the verge of passing out. The Wardens rush to undo his restraints, muttering amongst themselves. How did this happen? The machine wasn't supposed to hurt, was it? It had gone just fine so many times before…

Ei now stands in front of him, looking for signs of consciousness.

"Mr. McCay? You're free to go–"

"–YOU!"

Robert– or is it someone else?– leaps to his feet and lunges forward with a snarl. He grabs Ei by the shirt collar and pins him against the side of the projection chair.

"You were in his fuckin' brain! I saw you! Now start talkin’-- what the hell did you do?!” He points up at the Projection System. “What’s this-- THING? What--"

The man looks around frantically at the unfamiliar bystanders, and the enormous empty room, and the straps dangling from his… straitjacket…

"...What the hell is goin' on?!"

MILGRAM

Projection complete!

The Wardens will judge as they see fit… but maybe you have a voice, too? [Voting is now OPEN.]

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