RECORDING 3: THE FIRST TRIAL

[foundationmods]

The worst has happened... and now you're all here, in the living room where you first met Todd. As all of you enter, the Vessel is there - glowering at all of you, still missing the arm Dazai shorn from him with his touch.

On one of the tables away from the center is a small enclosed box entitled 'VOTES', with slips of paper nearby and a pen. It's sufficiently away from what will be the 'main' action, but not enough to really give anyone complete privacy as they vote.

Once everyone is inside, the doors automatically shut and lock themselves, leaving you trapped in here with the Vessel...and each other.

One of you is a murderer...however, in this game, the guilty do not need to be voted out. As long as there are enough people voted out that matches the victims...then it will be accepted.

...But, can you really let someone get away with murder...?

The choice...is up to you.

VICTIM: OLYMPIA
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 1

WEEK 1 VOTING

Comments

[finalring]

From what Saphir says, her circuits have been overloaded, so I'm guessing we would need spare parts to rebuild her.

[ which are hard to get in a late 19th century haunted house. ]

And even if we could, it's most likely that she would not retain her old memories. She'd be a clean slate, basically.

[golden_dream]

Convenient.

[...]

What if there was a way to... I don't know. Did she have 'eyes'? Could we see what image was burned into them last?

I'm sorry, I don't really know how it works.

[finalring]

I don't think we have the equipment to see that sort of thing.

[golden_dream]

Figures...

I've had this in my head for a while. We're all assuming it was a joke or something that the head was in the lamp.

What if there was a reason it 'had' to be in the lamp?

[finalring]

What...?

[ well that's definitely something interesting. he raises an eyebrow, curious. ]

What significance could the lamp have?

[golden_dream]

It's an extra step, isn't it? What did the culprit do? Kill her in the shed, take the head, run to the ballroom, put it in the lamp, then take the bulb, run back to the shed, and put it back on her head?

Why bother? That's just an extra step that complicates things and means they could be caught doing it. It's the same situation even if they took the bulb first, they still have to bring her head back to the lamp. And why that lamp, and why that bulb?

--What if she was killed in the ballroom, the head was put in the lamp, the body smuggled to the shed, and there they made it look like the 'murder' happened?

[finalring]

It makes me think that...

[ hmm... ]

It makes me think that this was done to mock us. In other words, the killer went through all those extra steps to make a mockery not just of Olympia, but of everyone in this place. Whoever the culprit is doesn't care about getting caught or not. They just want to create a scene and watch us all spin our wheels when the signs are all pointing to an otherwise obvious conclusion.

[golden_dream]

...Well, that still doesn't answer "why that lamp" and "why that bulb."

That and the revival sigil in the ballroom makes me think the coincidences with Minamimoto-san are stacking higher and higher.

[finalring]

The point is that there is no point. It's just...a nihilist's way of seeing the world. If humanity doesn't matter to him, then a robot would be seen as something even less than that.

[impyroverished]

He took measures to be revived, anyway, so I guess he wouldn't care if he gets caught.

[Yeeeah, Emil already took as truth that Sho is the culprit]

[golden_dream]

...

Are we all thinking the same thing?

[accrowed]

I think we are.

[golden_dream]

...Then I suppose we know what to do.

[golden_dream]

...Wait, if Minamimoto's sigil revives him... and the culprit "doesn't care" about being caught... and the culprit will die...

...

[boardreversal]

[OH BOY THIS SURE FUCKING SOUNDS FAMILIAR!! HE HATES IT!!]

....No way.

1/???

[tangentlion]

Hehehheehehe....

2/????

[tangentlion]

Heeehahhaa... HAHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

3/??

[tangentlion]

[Still laughing, Sho grabs Battler around his neck and drags him into the middle of the room]

Well... I guess that equation ran its course. It sure was fun to see you obtuse angles trip over yourselves, but let's REALLY get calculating!!

4/4 DONE

[tangentlion]

[Sho pulls a small, can shaped object out of his pocket and holds it threateningly]

Pop quiz, radians! What do you think this is?!

[deadanimemom]

[Shit.]

try 2 at ping

[finalring]

........No.

[ romani takes a step forward, face pale ]

Y-You can't do that!

[ looking for todd? hello? ] Is this allowed?!

[zweivoltage]

You Cowardly Bastard!

[accessorytomurder]

...a battery strong enough to power a robot as sophisticated as Olympia. Isn't it?

[Nobody had mentioned a power source strong enough, in the investigations.]

[sageking]

[ ... ]

Then I suppose we're sitting here through all of this to this mongrel's amusement, if anything.

[golden_dream]

...We can't kill him.