Week 6, Saturday

[foundationmods]

[After a tense night and a quiet morning, everyone will get an email at 11 am. The email comes straight from MC.]

Meet me in the studio at noon.

[It's probably best to follow those instructions.

When they get to the studio, they will find that twelve podiums have been arranged in a semi-circle on the stage. Each person can take whichever one they want, they aren't assigned.

There is the box of prinny jurors once more, but this time the twelve prinnies seated there might look familiar. In addition, there is a new spot next to the prinnies where a single stool behind a small table is left empty.

Given that the seat John used previously is taken up by MC, John looks at the group awkwardly before going to sit on that stool.

It's time to begin the final trial.]

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Comments

[houndumb]

[There's a squint because yeah he remembers some of the shit he's heard about this guy. Monster KIND OF makes sense but really he hasn't seen anything like this before. There's also the two personalities thing... Why is everything so complicated.]

So you've just been tracking everybody with souls, is that it?

[foundationmods]

...no, it's an expression. I'm not sure how to make it clearer that 'yes, he is dead' is the answer.

[houndumb]

[DEADEYES HIM HARDER]

Ha, I see how it is. Y'know, talkin' up souls ain't just an expression in the Foundation??

[foundationmods]

I am aware that persons from 6350 can be put into new bodies, yes.

[houndumb]

There's a lot more than that, pretty sure we all talked about it at some point?

[He's referring to their whole discussion about Ellie clones and soul yeeting. But more importantly:]

Know what else is funny? You guys were supposed to be locking this site down, huh. Ain't it weird that some random fuck just wandered in for a day? I mean, I thought you were some random fuck but you're just some asshole.

This guy seriously just walked in under your watch.

[foundationmods]

It certainly is strange, yes.

[But MC is smiling when Nora points that out. Keep going, you're getting something right here.]

[houndumb]

He also had directions an' a map of how to get here, so SOMEBODY wanted him to be here.

[I'm going to assume they have the bloody scrap of paper around to present as evidence?? If someone wants to wave that around. Does Ellie still have it.]

[foundationmods]

[The bloody scrap is around, yes, but just mentioning it seems to be enough to satisfy MC's requirements.]

You are correct there. Someone wanted him to be on-site.

[houndumb]

It wasn't whoever was holdin' on to him and it wasn't that noodle asshole-- [which is apparently just going to be Doezai's name now instead of John] --'cause we got the chat logs to back that shit up and even the asshole ain't stupid enough to bring him around just to get shot.

All of us players were fucking locked down the whole time and we wouldn't be able to get in contact with him anyway.

Which leaves Site 4 staff for knowin' the ins and outs of the place for getting him in and around.

[foundationmods]

You are correct, someone from Site 4 would have had to give him directions.

[darkremnants]

And there's only one person who had something to gain. Someone who wanted to test us and the noodle asshole.

[prayerwheel]

....it is strange, isn't it? Dazai would also have had to hide during the timeframe between when we saw him in the garage and when he attacked John in the morning, but that would be very difficult to do due to the cameras. Someone monitoring them would surely have caught him.

[houndumb]

I mean, he looked exactly like the useless noodle so WE couldn't tell, but there would still be two Dazais wanderin' around to get caught on camera. If nobody noticed that'd be even weirder.