WEEK 1 || act: indict

[foundationmods]

[Saturday dawns, bright and early again - and Undyne comes to the inn, flanked by the Royal Guard...all of the Dogs in the area, in their armor or uniforms.

You all only have enough time to get ready - wash yourselves, put on your masks and clothing - before you're ushered out, guarded so heavily that it's clear they expect trouble. Monsters on the way watch you warily, whispering and either looking angry or shocked.

It's clear they no longer have such kind thoughts of you, after what happened.

You're all lead out past Snowdin and Waterfall, into an area that's hot, and the glow of subterranian lava lights the area. Then, past a large hotel...into an area that looks metallic, where some kind of whitish, rainbow-gleaming liquid can be seen below.

In this area, you are led to a wider platform that is still open to the liquid before, with the handrails in place - where there are some seats around, and a familiar face waiting to speak with you.

This...for all of you, it is a familiar sight.

It is a trial location.

You are here to find the killer...and convict one of your own, in a murder that makes no sense.

But you have no choice.

You can only forge ahead....and try to find out the truth.]

VICTIM: HIMEKO INABA
ACT: VOTE

Comments

[improbablenotimpossible]

...

That's the part that troubles me. He may be a criminal but he would not go after the kids.

And he would've been much more careful.

Yet, he is the only one that fits every point.

Unless...

[He folds his arms over his chest, looking away uneasily]

[justonezero]

Unless what?

[finalring]

Do you believe that he was coerced?

[improbablenotimpossible]

...

or controlled.

[romancekiller]

Controlled? What do you mean?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

I Don't have a Master!

[Cutting in angrily, here.]

And I've hardly been near that damn clown!

[finalring]

Would that sort of thing be possible, in his case?!

[white_camellia]

[...]

[cw_suicide]

[criminal mastermind boss guy not going after kids just doesn't fit into his worldview but ok.]

... unless it's a situation like the Hotel?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes, it might be something like that.

[cw_suicide]

But what would have influenced James Moriarty in this place?

Or, more accurately, what evidence points toward that scenario? Or is it just the lack of evidence?

[homeecspacecop]

You can't just say someone was mind controlled every time the evidence doesn't fit.

[cw_suicide]

... that would be why I'm asking about the evidence.

[homeecspacecop]

I didn't mean you, I meant him. [Chuuta's just a mess right now.]

[moonlightalter]

If it was a situation like that, there would be other proof of that. The uh- the 'spider demon' left behind webs, for example.

So there would be something there that doesn't belong to him, if it was another 'demon'.

[finalring]

Maybe it's not the same thing, then. There's multiple forms of control, all the way down to simple hypnosis. All it needs to do is get past Moriarty's defenses.

[accessorytomurder]

...there are Ghost Monsters that can possess inanimate objects here. N-Not that I'm saying one of them did it! ...but, couldn't that mean a human ghost or some sort of... of grudge-being could possess somebody here, if they came in, somehow?