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

[golden_dream]

Why did you draw the sigil? The negative-energy sigil, in the ballroom?

[tangentlion]

You digits are just going to keep hounding me about that until I answer, huh.

Fine.

It's a taboo refinery sigil. If I'm Erased, it'll revive me. Happy now?

[ghostricked]

So both you and her could survive if you died?

[tangentlion]

Well, it's not as elegant a solution as hers. If I had known this place was a death trap, I would have set it up somewhere else. But not even a genius like me can see the future.

[ghostricked]

So if one of you killed the other, in theory, it's a victimless crime.

[tangentlion]

In theory.

[ghostricked]

[He walks over and just kinda... rubs on his leg]

[tangentlion]

[.....

he crouches down and pets the cat]

You're a zetta good cat, Sissel.

[ghostricked]

[He just lets Sho pet him, refusing to speak. It's too much right now.

He thinks of Yomiel and just... can't.]

[golden_dream]

...And how often does this sigil work? Potentially forever? Could you die, come back, and die, and come back again?

[tangentlion]

One and done. It's not perfect, but better than nothin'.

[golden_dream]

How do we know you haven't already used it? Can you prove that?

[tangentlion]

It'll vanish after it's used. You only have my word to go on, though....

[golden_dream]

Yes, untestable... unless you were to die, suddenly, then revive yourself, and we were able to observe the sigil vanishing.

But, here's a final question for you, Minamimoto-san.

What's to stop you from drawing as many of those sigils as you like?

[tangentlion]

They take a lot of energy. I can only draw one at a time.. and I'm honestly not sure what would happen if I went through the refinement process several times.

[golden_dream]

--Well, if Minamimoto-san says so, it must be true.

[golden_dream]

I don't know what that means!

...

Taboo refinery? What does that mean?

[tangentlion]

Explaining it to a zero like you would take an eon! It's a revival rune. That's all you need to know.