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calloperators ([personal profile] calloperators) wrote in [community profile] 1_800_hotline2019-06-15 12:00 pm
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TRIAL 1 [DAY 4]

[The sound of rapidly approaching police sirens indicates that it's time to leave the crime scene.

When you reach the previously-defunct laundry room at the motel, you find that the door swings open easily. A wave of air carrying stench of rotting flesh immediately hits you in the face, accompanied the sound of flies buzzing incessantly, having finally being released from their disgusting prison. Two rotting corpses lay on the ground, both with gunshot wounds through their bodies. Curiously enough, these corpses are both wearing masks--one with a wolf mask, and another with a clown mask. From the general state of these corpses, their bodies appear to have been here for weeks. Some of you might feel a twinge of recognition at the sight of them, though you don't remember why.

Once you manage to look past the corpses, you'll find that there's an open door on the back wall with stairs leading down. Whatever washing machines that used to be here have been removed, leaving rusty impressions on the walls and floor. As you carefully make your way down the concrete steps, the air grows colder and mustier, and the sound of the radios fade. You eventually step into a dimly-lit chamber that only vaguely resembles a boiler room, as a series of pulpits have been arranged in rows, labeled by room number. Pyro's stand, of course, is conspicuously empty.

You realize that this has been the only time during your time here that you haven't heard any music at all.

Standing before all the pulpits at the front of the room, there's a CRT TV buzzing with static. As soon as everyone files in, the metal door swings shut with an abrupt CLANG and locks behind you. The static fills the silence for several minutes.

The screen flickers, and a face appears. His blonde hair is slicked back in an unnatural fashion, his plastic smile is almost permanently affixed to his face, and the suit he's wearing looks...far too shiny to be remotely real. His movements are jerky, occasionally changing completely in pose in view to the camera.

He opens his mouth and speaks in a stuttering, artificial tone, rising and falling with no sense of rhyme or reason.]


This IS M-M-Max HEADroom, and YOU are all all all HERE to catch a murderer! Your JOB is to find out who's g-g-g-g u i l t y, and I'm here to help move things along, in a sense. ense. ense. [A pause.] Then again, you're--all guilty of something, aren't you?

[And he throws back his head and laughs.]



< TRIAL START! >

boosterrific: (All the confused faces all of them)

[personal profile] boosterrific 2019-06-15 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Television host? A horrifying thought suddenly occurs to Booster. ]

Hey, this isn't be broadcast somewhere, is it?
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[personal profile] orforfun 2019-06-15 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You think Dennis Hopper over here has Murder TV goin’ live?
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[personal profile] headroom 2019-06-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
No. It is n-n-not. I am broadcasting to you. That is-is-is how I can talk to you, dummies.
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[personal profile] orforfun 2019-06-15 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah gonna ignore that because you’re lying - what is it, an ESPN deal? Tim Burton is producing your shit. This is a Halloween special for some fucked-up alien monsters. Something like that, right?
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[personal profile] headroom 2019-06-15 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I said no one. one. one. one. I'm a TV host--I don't lie to people. I simply obfuscate truths as I s-s-see fit. But lying right to your face? That would ruin my credibility forever!