thefoundation | RECORDING 3: THE FIRST TRIAL

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round 5

RECORDING 3: THE FIRST TRIAL

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

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[???

P-petting him? Are you okay, kitty?]

You don't know?

[He's not, his fur is almost unpleasant to pet due to it wanting to stand stiff]

...

[If someone else was executed and his suspicions were right, could he live with it? He's not sure. And Olympia... she must deserve better than keeping secrets.]

Sho's boots smell like oil. A lot of oil.

[He's so sorry]

[The pets stop and she glares at Sho. Clearing her throat, she'll speak up:]

Mr. Minamimoto's boots smell like oil. A lot of it.

Edited 2020-04-18 18:10 (UTC)

Seriously. . . ?

[god.

she sounds SO TIRED.]

[..............Fuck.]

...So it really was that old trick, huh...?

Old trick...?

You see it all the time in mystery novels - 'Someone overly suspicious'. It can be a trap depending on how familiar you are with the genre, or read a lot of them in general. A first time reader would say that they're clearly guilty of whatever they're suspected of, because they haven't had enough experience to see other tricks in other stories.

But an experienced reader could potentially overthink it, and then go 'he's too suspicious, there's no way it's him.'

...Of course, that's just for mystery novels. But...We've got a lot of people experienced in investigation, right?

[He listens attentively as Battler explains]

Oh! It's a bit like discerning if an enemy's movements is signs of an ambush or trap... under and overthinking it would be disastrous either way.

Exactly. Zhuge Liang once made an entire army turn back just because they freaked out that he was calmly playing his instrument at the gates of the city he was defending, even though the city was actually undefended.

If they'd gone ahead, they could have sacked the town...but because they expected him to have a trap waiting, they psyched themselves out and decided to retreat.

I've heard of a pre-crusade war tactic where they created fake military equipment to inflate their numbers and distract the enemy from the real forces.

So... it seems like this is a similar kind of trick.

I use oil to get that zetta nice dirty sheen on them. And?

Why would you purposely dirty your own clothes unless you were trying to distract us from other things, Sho?

I've done it since I was in my early double digits. Industrial chic is hella aesthetic.

Sorry to interrupt, but if you're saying that you've been doing it for a while now, wouldn't that mean Sissel would have smelled it earlier this week?

Edited (grammar) 2020-04-18 18:21 (UTC)

Maybe he did! But do you think he's up for answering right now? You gonna turn the pressure up on that little cat? Are you that heartless?

That's right, I'm heartless.

Besides... wouldn't it be better for you if he said that 'yes, he did smell like oil throughout the week'? I'm only helping to see if you can prove your innocence or not. Unless you're a scaredy cat of having the truth revealed for everyone to hear?

Edited 2020-04-18 18:26 (UTC)