[[Chapter 2.5: Interlude]] uhh hello peopld oc th3ede inftdrnet
Kayee is buhy wikth somesodne selse, so you have me tkday. soorey that mmy spelling ism kinsdas bad nat soem parhts; I have mno dfinfgers ;(
I heard fregorty tlakingm rto his mother troday. I'llm tyr to transcribe it but nit mifgfhht be a litttle clunckly and nonsencial duje to my nspellinfg so barem with mre (wwhy are thr r and e krys ddo close togethrhr 'n')
Lilith Horudho: GREHGROY!1!!1!!1 EXPLAIN YTOREASELF NOAW!!
Gregory Horuahsi: Majd=a pleaase! I didn't nkow!
Lilith Hoursho; Well what do you kneow!?
Grwegory Horisho: I-I have reasoens to believe thst our guest is in xahoots with Judmgent Bor and the grimb reaspet!
Lileith Horusho: AGAIN WITH TYHAT BONE HEAD AND LAWYER!?!?
Gregory Horusho: Mama! Plesse calm down! She's just a girl, you see, there's no way she could survire to escape!
Lilith Horusho: hmm...Fair point, son. Knowinf your reputation, you'll bringn her back evntually.
That'[sm all I heard. I thidnk Kaycee is in dang4r...
If atylone reads this: please don't gicvr up on her yet. I know trhat we btoh don't want her tonbe trappetd here.
And kaycde, if you're reasdfinfg thes: this iss rthee reaason I trherrtw awaty ther cxomputrert
Okaeway vye :o)
[[I don't want you to suffer, so here's the normally typed version]]
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More Haruka Verdict Thoughts
Sorry, I’m going to be insufferable for a while here while I’m trying to figure out my whole verdict thoughts.
T/W: mentions of suicide, serial killers
I’m still torn on the verdict. I thought I’d landed solidly on innocent, but I was talking to some people in youtube comments, and now I’m not so sure.
On the one hand, I do believe that voting him innocent is the safest vote in terms of keeping people alive through the second trial. It’s more predictable, and it doesn’t risk harming his safe space or fragile mindset.
However... I feel like if we vote him innocent here in the second round, we’ll be locking him into a guilty verdict for the third round. Even if I do forgive him emotionally, I don’t know that I could, in good conscience, clear him with an innocent verdict. Haruka shows, like, all the signs of a young serial killer, so I don’t think we can really release him into the wild without doing something about it first. Maybe a guilty verdict would be what he needs to correct his path.
But, if I’m right that he’s at risk of committing suicide if we give him a guilty verdict, then it doesn’t really matter, does it? I’d rather keep the door open for an innocent verdict than guarantee his death. In which case, I’d pick the safer option.
But it’s not a guarantee that we lose him if we vote him guilty. That’s just a theory. At the same time, we don’t know that it’s a guarantee that we can’t help fix his mindset if we vote him innocent. And, even if we vote him guilty, and even if he survives this round, we don’t know that we’ll be able to redeem him in the end. In that case, wouldn’t a guilty verdict be needless suffering?
Would Haruka even be able to succeed at a suicide attempt? We don’t know exactly how the restraining works. If he’s restrained enough that he couldn’t actually hurt himself, but he was still emotionally suicidal and had to sit through it, would that change my verdict, or would it just be cruel?
I guess the big problem is, either way, we’re not going to know what would have happened on the other path. If we vote guilty and he commits suicide, we won’t even know what happens in the third trial. If we vote him innocent and his behavior and outlook opens and we have to vote him guilty in the end, we’ll never know if we could have changed the result by flipping his vote, if he could’ve been helped. Whatever happens, the result is going to haunt me if anything happens that feels like we got it wrong. And, assuming our results aren’t flawless, that’s going to happen.
Sorry for the rambling, this vote’s just making me think a lot.
-Venus
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Chapter 2: Apocalypse
Narrated by Leonid.
Narrator: But the gods’ judgments linger behind in this very shrine that bears witness to the conflict between them and humans.
Narrator: A single human was all it took to disrupt an order established at the beginning of time itself and send harmony into a downward spiral.
Narrator: Faced with a calamity of this scale, no one knows what lies ahead.
Narrator: But I’m not interested in their judgment, nor will I try to sway it. I will be leaving.
Narrator: The waves, the stars, and the trails on which the stars travel... I’ve seen everything there is to see here. This ocean is no longer interesting.
Narrator: I shall return to Miraland and observe civilization anew.
Narrator: The towering shadow backs away to give me the road to freedom.
Narrator: The trial, however, is far from over.
Voice: Miraland has created an existence to be feared, which in turn has distorted the development of civilization.
Narrator: The ancient voice utters as surging waves leave behind bubbles that reflect a new reality, a new subject for another divine trial.
Narrator: When wind blows over from the sea, it brushes through all the leaves on the Tree of Life and past the fruits on the trees in the city.
Narrator: It melts the ice and snow in the north, and stirs up the seemingly endless sand in the desert.
Narrator: It traverses the bustling crowd and ruffles the fabric in the designer’s hands.
Narrator: Then, carrying the sweet aroma of cakes and wine, it travels past all the shining specks of islands before returning to the sea.
Narrator: I’m no stranger to all of these. For this is Miraland, the very place that gave me life.
Voice: A pathway has been established between Miraland and the Ocean of Memories. It’s only a matter of time before we see more people coming to disrupt our order.
Voice: He shall not be forgiven for what he has done. He shall be destroyed.
Choose “Why?”
You: This is absurd. They are going to destroy an entire continent over the wrongdoing of a single person...
Leonid: Humans are arrogant and think they’re the rulers of everything. It’s only when they encounter an even more powerful being that they learn to be afraid.
You: ...
Leonid: The trial, however, happened for a much simpler reason. It’s just you have yet to come to grips with it.
Narrator: The ocean is watched over by many guards, but they aren’t all on the same side.
Narrator: Civilization rises and falls with the passage of time. Such is how the world operates.
Narrator: And as civilization rises and falls, so do gods.
Narrator: Even then, gods’ wills and emotions remain constant despite the passage of time.
Narrator: They come together to form a dark shadow of chaos that presides over the Ocean of Memories.
Narrator: Newborn civilizations shine like stars in the sky. Miraland, too, has seen its fair share of civilizations rising and falling.
Narrator: New civilizations have brought about new gods. Having grown powerful, these gods will soon preside over the Ocean of Memories.
Narrator: And with it comes a threat known as humans, and the clash of power between the old and the new gods that endangers their very survival.
Narrator: And now, the old gods have found their excuse to pass judgment on the new civilization.
Narrator: So long as Miraland itself is destroyed, so too will the land that has created its civilizations, religion, and newborn gods.
Narrator: And with the new gods gone, so too will the threat they constitute.
Narrator: The voices behind me fade away, but I just keep walking, not even slightly interested in their judgment.
Narrator: I came to seek knowledge and to observe.
Narrator: The Ocean of Memories is connected to all other spacetime, so I’m able to travel freely between worlds even if Miraland itself is destroyed.
??: But I’ll never allow that to happen.
Narrator: A ray of starlight pierces the towering shadow. As pure white feathers flutter onto the ocean. I hear a gentle voice... one I’m familiar with.
Narrator: I stop and turn around, and there They are, the very symbol of styling and beauty, standing away from all the other gods.
Choose “God of Styling?”
You: That’s... the God of Styling?
Leonid: The two of you are connected in a way.
Leonid: Fate would have headed in a different direction had that god never appeared.
Narrator: Yet the God of Styling is destined to protect this continent from which They were born.
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