FINAL TRIAL

[petoskeymods]

FINAL TRIAL

And now, you know the truth. Who's behind everything, and why.

And the question that hangs in the air now is - what's next?

It's noon when you all go down to the firepit, the sun hanging bright in the air. Red is there, seated calmly, watching all of you - and Archer is standing up, looking imposing.

It's time to talk.

CAMPERS REMAINING: 7

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[homeecspacecop]

So what did you learn? Because right now, everyone else is sharing a lot of information and you're not giving us anything.

[killtheanimals]

Nothing, because they wiped my memories just like they did yours.

I don't even know why they bothered asking me to volunteer - so long as I've been here, I've only known as much as the rest of you. Anything I've found, I've asked just like anyone else here.

[homeecspacecop]

So what have you asked? Nobody believes that you're telling us everything you know.

[killtheanimals]

[This is where he stops. And then he looks to Red.

Permission to speak? We're this late in the game already, after all.]

[backspacing]

[Go for it, Smoltsuru.]

[killtheanimals]

[Finally.]

The plan is for all of us to become agents. Archer has a high enough clearance to vouch for all of us - including the dead.

If we can become agents, we can all get new bodies. But in order to go to our worlds again... we have to earn it.

[It's been a contributing factor to why, ultimately, he gave up. Why he gave up on his Journey, on his wish.

Even if they leave here, it's going to take so, so long to even regain a semblance of what should have been, if ever.]

[le_mat]

Just like they offered that clownfucker.

[killtheanimals]

Yes, just like with him. I don't know any more details about that, though. It was already a risk for me to learn this in the first place.

And unlike you, I can keep a secret.

[le_mat]

[He huffs and blushes]

What's the point of a secret that could help us if I just kept it to myself?

[He's clearly just covering his ass]

[homeecspacecop]

[That does distract him from his distrust, because that's important.]

We can go home again? Really?

[killtheanimals]

It's what I was told. I really don't have any other details than that, though.

We couldn't afford anyone knowing the plan was in place.

[So kindly stop interrogating him about it??]

[homeecspacecop]

You haven't told us anything about any plan yet, all you have is information that Red told you!

[soylentprotag]

Including the dead.

[That had been a very loud open question for him, and he relaxes a little as he hears it -- even if they could save the dead, if they were going to be used as fodder or SCP bait again then it would have been a pyrrhic victory. If there's a path to an even slightly better fate...

He'd already been quietly preparing himself to accept being here for a long, long time. He's accepted a lot of things, ever since he's become a God Eater, what seems long ago now.

There are things he won't accept, of course, but here and now -- what's most important is the people beside him.]

If we're all in this together, then we can go anywhere. I believe in that. Even if we have to work with the organization.

[And they'd discussed that, working with them. Many of them, he knows, have already thought about this.]

[killtheanimals]

All twenty-eight of us.

[Their original number - and what he wrote in his own booklet at the very end.]

[soylentprotag]

... All twenty-eight of us. And Sol. We won't leave anyone behind.

[They've talked about burning the camp to the ground. They've talked about changing this world, and changing the fates of the counselors, and changing their own fates; and that's always what Lenka has wanted to do. There are so many strange continuities and parallels between what he used to be and whatever the Foundation and Sol have made of him.

He is always, and ever, himself. And what he is is change, upheaval in the system from within, a refusal to accept doom as he looks it in the face.]

[fallbymyhands]

. . .

[she had deduced as such, but still. . . having to earn it?]

[her eyes slip shut, brows furrowed. she says nothing, for her displeased expression speaks just as well for her]

[le_mat]

[Ren is frowning too- seems like they could easily be made to work here forever. The goal post always moving further away.

...but, it's better than dead, certainly. Just not great. His sense of justice bristles at it]

We're between a rock and a hard place here.

[fallbymyhands]

We are.

[there's no denying that]

. . . but as long as we're alive, we can continue to find a way to escape. Working for the Foundation is not the end.

[not in her mind, anyway]

[ihatepastme]

....

[At most of this, he stays silent...

But at the 'have to earn it part?'

His expression changes for a second.]

[homeecspacecop]

Archer-san? How would we earn it?

[le_mat]

...Archer?

Is that bullshit? It smells like bullshit.

[killtheanimals]

[-?]

Was I wrong?

[fallbymyhands]

[. . . ?]

[she stays silent, because Chuuta and Ren beat her to it]

[linearcrash]

While behaving, we can also figure out a way to change things. So it won't be like this for anyone else in the future, you know?

[killtheanimals]

Not at this site, at least. We already found out about it earlier-

There's thousands of other places like this. Things that need "containing" I'm sure.