The Trial of Distant Tide

== Prologue ==
Opens to an orange sky. A Type-56 Lich flies among the clouds. Cut to the inside of the Lich. A Halo Fanon writer faces Bagration.
* HF Writer: "I do not trust you. He may... but I do not."
Bagration stares back sternly. Behind him stands three other Guests.
* Bagration: "Noted."
The HF writer leans in threateningly before stopping at the sound of an Administrator's voice.
* Distant Tide: "My friend's trust is not the issue today, Bagration."
Bagration turns to a figure approaching him. The HF writer walks off. Bagration faces the figure, who is revealed to be Distant Tide.
* Distant Tide: "It is my trust you must earn."
Bagration nods.
* Bagration: "Administator."
Tide passes by Bagration and inspects a hologram of a Viking helmet.
* Distant Tide: "You are a Guest, yes? A reader of things."
* Bagration: "That's not the official role description. But it's close enough."
Tide turns to Bagration.
* Distant Tide: "And now you read site-based OC's?" 
* Bagration: "I'm not so much reading an OC as I am reading the OC."
Bagration presents a small pad on his palm that shows a hologram of leading his 286th drunk crusade against . The Administrator growls.
* Distant Tide: "You seek..."
Bagration deactivates the hologram.
* Bagration: "L-B-K."
* Distant Tide: "I was not told the identity of your author."
* Bagration: "That is why I am sharing it with you now. We are talking about trust, after all."
Bagration glances at the nearby Halo Fanon writers.
* Bagration: "May I ask you something? Your people used to call his stuff "Up and coming." Was that a joke or a compliment?"
The Administrator glances at the writers and turns back.
* Distant Tide: "...A compliment to be sure, and one with a modicum of respect."
Tide turns and slowly walks away.
* Distant Tide: "It indeed spawned quite a few other Viking articles. But in time, I named him Breakthrough User, even Best Writer. The articles which forged this bond were... complicated."
Tide looks away. Slowly fade to black.