trustfell | Accountability.

There are all sorts of secrets to this place, really, ways to get from place to place reasonably unnoticed. Some of those ways involve the ability to shift one's appearance, some of them involve shadows and vessels and darkness; for those without those sorts of gifts, though, one has to rely on more conventional means. Panels and doorways, joins and seams that don't join up quite right; portions of the wall that will open up if you manipulate them properly.

The Conductor himself tends to rely on the latter; he is, after all, entirely human.

He's thin, as though he doesn't eat terribly much, but his clothes are immaculate and sharply-tailored, a suit and long coat all in white and shades of pale grey; his hair is long, trailing at least halfway down his back in a thin, tightly-tied ponytail, and his eyes are cold when he moves to stand at the thirtieth podium – it's not his, it never has been, but it's going to do for now.

He doesn't seem anxious at all about being here; there's nothing nervous in his demeanor, and he's keeping his head up, perfectly willing to look everyone in the face. There's a definite arrogance about him, as is probably to be expected, though he'll certainly acknowledge everyone once he's there – when he bows it's enough to be respectful, but not nearly enough to expose the back of his neck.

When he speaks, his voice is recognizable but it's quiet, far moreso than one would assume him to be based on the volume of the intercom alone; his tone is even, almost unsettlingly calm given the circumstances, though there's a hardness to it that never quite goes away.

"It's a pleasure to speak to all of you in person; I'd say that it's almost a shame that the circumstances have to be what they are, but I'm not going to insult your intelligence like that."

He straightens up then; the smile he's offering is understated, but it's not particularly nice.

"I understand that we have a fair amount to discuss; shall we begin?"

Your host for the evening, everyone; let's start.

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...Well, I won't deny that last bit was probably part of it.

[Come on, kid, he's not handing this one to you. Think for a bit.]

'Cause you had moles and he had creepy transformation abilities, I guess? Did you two even, like... get along.

Oh, quite well, actually. I worked with him for a while several years ago, and I tended to like him better than most of his other family members.

And he liked you well enough to fetch your mail, I suppose. Is he still around?

It was something to do while he was here, anyway; he wasn't always, he never really did stay in one place for too long.

[That said, about that latter part - well, somebody's in for a bad time, let's put it that way.]

Is this like a fucked-up family business or something? How many family members are involved in this, anyway. Are you going to tell me the patriarch is the asshole who became God or something.

Eight of them originally, nine including myself. I'm not related to any of them.

...As for that latter part...well, I said they were interesting, I never said they were particularly original.

...

Wait, are you fucking shitting me? This was a family effort to make dad god?

[ I'M JUST AS CANON BLIND AS BAKUGOU SO UH

WOW FMA IS FUCKED UP ]

Well, when you put it like that it just sounds stupid, but more or less, yes.

[SAYS THE GUY WHO HELPED END THE WORLD BECAUSE...IT WAS THERE, HE SUPPOSES, AND FORESAW LITERALLY NOTHING GOING AWRY WITH THIS

kimblee what about this idea wasn't stupid]

This whole thing is incredibly stupid, and you're harping on the wording of it?

[look

somebody's gotta]

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You know why that is?

[ ..... ]

BECAUSE IT IS STUPID. Just. Saying.

[listen]

It kept my life interesting, at any rate, and I'll admit that when I signed on for this, that was more or less all that mattered to me.

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So he was the man who created them?

...you said they were like "living philosopher's stones", didn't you? How are they made?

[...there were like three questions there, hang on]

...The stones, or the people?

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[ Now that's Jean's being snippy and frustrated he's at least willing to acknowledge that last bit and think about it more seriously. ]

... Was it a matter of them being easiest? Cabanela and Dio were out most nights anyway, most of us didn't know them very well, and they were both sort of odd in the first place so it would have been harder to notice either of them acting strangely if we caught your friend.

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That's better - in fact, that's essentially all of it.

Some of the easiest to imitate are either the horrifically generic or the incredibly odd - as long as you hit enough of the traits of the latter, you can pass, or so I've heard.

[ Hah, he totally got it! ]

Assuming he was the person taking all those [ creepy, stalkerish ] notes, did he pass on Logan and Giovanni because Youko and Blue know them too well?

More or less.

Sovereign also had the unfortunate ability to collect flocks of children by merit of existing in a given location long enough, and Geotic had that gigantic bee with him often enough that it would have been questionable if he suddenly didn't.

...I know Logan and I seem to be on the list of people they might have imitated at some point or another, given the multiple pictures and the tape recorder and whatnot.

...

It's probably a combination of us being more likely to stay out late and them just having good taste.

Well, he certainly thought he had good taste, at any rate.

[...]

You likely don't care to hear this sort of opinion coming from me, but he wasn't wrong.

[...WE...WE ALL ENDED UP A LITTLE GAY FOR GIOVANNI AND DIO...AND HE'S NOT GOING TO SAY NO TO CABANELA AND LOGAN EITHER...]

No, actually, I'm in pretty strong agreement here.

[...well, at least his ego's still alright...]

Good to know, then.

[...so are the obviously evil assholes just going to stand around flirting for this entire trial, or]

[Nah, okay. Susan's gonna just smack Giovanni on the shoulder again.]

Honestly?

...I... yes, I'll behave.