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.]

VOTE HERE

Comments

[dereban]

There's a few options here.

One: the jeep was used to drop someone off and they left, later coming back to kill Dazai.

Two: The jeep was present only during the time of the murder; it's less likely given the timestamp of Dazai's death, but depending on how close this place is to Site 4, then. Yeah, an hour to drive back isn't that terrible.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...that's right, jeeps can have passengers. How did I not think of that?

[dereban]

It's okay. My current thought leans more towards the first one than the second, but that option also means that Dazai, at some point, was cooperating with their killer.

. . . Although I couldn't tell you if he expected to get killed or not, considering how he is.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[..............................

Karen rests her face in her hands.]

Not again.

[dereban]

Well, it's just a theory and not the absolute truth: it might not be the answer; but I sure as hell would not be surprised if Dazai did that.

[iblistriggered]

Oh... right. Inaba, didn't you say at the beginning of all this that Dazai is kind of... suicidal?

cw suicide mentions

[dereban]

. . . Yeah.

His reason for joining the mafia was so that he could find a reason to live. That there'd be something in it for him.

cw suicide mentions

[iblistriggered]

... so it's completely possible that he may be partially responsible for his own demise. After all, the Prinnies said his soul is still around, and kind of pissed about that.

[dereban]

Yeah.

The thing that I think is interesting is that whoever killed him shot him three times, though. It just-

It feels way too deliberate.

[darkremnants]

The victim had a map to get to Site 4.

[ OR it's a map to get to the house from the site. ]

He probably walked over to avoid being noticed by us.

[prayerwheel]

All the way, walking....?

[ dazai is a cryptid confirmed ]

[darkremnants]

The prinnies managed.

[dereban]

I really hope that he didn't walk from South America all the way here within a week. . .

[ LIKE JUST BECAUSE THE PRINNIES CAN DO IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT DAZAI CAN ]

[darkremnants]

[ You guys ]

I mean he walked from Site 4 to the house. Dazai is crafty. He could find a way to get back hitch hiking or threatening people until he made it back. How he got here form South America isn't relevant to the case.

[dereban]

I suppose that's true. . . but we only saw his footprints from the garage to the backyard, right?

Unless he just didn't get any footprints coming straight here.

[ OR IF I'M MISINTERPRETING THE EVIDENCE WRONG, which i totally could be ]

[darkremnants]

He was probably out there all night to be sure we didn't see him. Have to admire his patience.

[dereban]

If there's one thing that Dazai's good at, it's planning crap like this and executing them properly.

[houndumb]

Didn't Silver have somethin' about him being in a different country...?

[Or, you know, a different continent. But dog vs. geography.]

[prayerwheel]

Dazai was in South America, yes. That's an entirely different continent.

[houndumb]

Are we sure he doesn't have some fuckin' teleportation or something...

[iblistriggered]

He could have just gotten on a plane, you know.

[houndumb]

Why would you use a plane if you've got teleportation.

[Nora that's not the point.]

[prayerwheel]

I'm more concerned about the fact that he was set on coming up here to...what, exactly? Kill John? And for what reason? Revenge for impersonating him?

[dereban]

He has a lot of crazy bullshit, but no teleportation.

[houndumb]

What, more crazy bullshit than canceling powers??