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

[moonlightalter]

...the purple soul.

Who here can control others and also has a purple soul?

[cw_suicide]

I'm out.

My form of control is simple manipulation, thanks.

[sageking]

Enough. This controlling theory is nonsense!

The accusation originally was based on the supposition that Moriarty fit most of those characteristics, and indeed he did. However, we've nothing to prove he was involved in this, especially since I doubt he'd be able to even manipulate his height.

[moonlightalter]

Then what do you think happened here?

[homeecspacecop]

He doesn't match the evidence! You can't just claim someone did it when the evidence doesn't fit them! We're wasting time looking for some kind of mind-control when we need to take another look at the evidence and see who else fits!

[oceanicbutterfly]

Exactly! It doesn't make sense so we need to reconsider the possibilities!

[moonlightalter]

Then who else fits the evidence? Who else would have footprints to match and shoot Inaba and stab her three times?

[Someone else will have to bring up his claws because he sure isn't about to bring them up.]

[sageking]

You, as one of the suspects.

After all, you can also turn into a tiger, can't you?

[homeecspacecop]

You might! You have claws! I fit too, and our Sympathy could make injuries that look like stab wounds. I don't know about Yoshi, but he might have some kind of weapon too.

[sageking]

None of us have ever considered the possibility that this was an accident? Not in the traditional sense.

But can you imagine what'd be the result if someone who is trained for battle was spooked by someone they couldn't identify...?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

So you're arguing I shot and then stabbed her three times by accident?!

[GIL.]

[sageking]

I didn't even say it was you who did it in the first place.

[ He just argued against that ok ]

[accessorytomurder]

That might explain the stabs or the shot. But both?

[sageking]

[ ...

This case was starting to really irritate him. ]

[ugly_split_ends]

I can't!

[finalring]

I do.

[ ughhh he hates this. he doesn't want the attention on him and yet....

well, he never imagined himself having any amount of good fortune. ]

But I will say this right here and now-- I have no recollection of that, nor do I have any motive to do so either. And no, this is not something I can do by accident. So unless someone was controlling me, then this argument falls flat.

[improbablenotimpossible]

... turtles all the way down.

[He pursed his lips, it makes sense but - it didn't... feel right]

[homeecspacecop]

It's... too complicated, isn't it? Someone controlling you into controlling him... That's way too many steps.

[improbablenotimpossible]

I agree... it would be too many variables, too many moving parts.

[homeecspacecop]

And we still don't have a real motive...

[accessorytomurder]

And it leaves the question of 'why her'?

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He gestures to his mask, trying to silent ask the other question:

"Why was she in the other mask?"]

[accessorytomurder]

Whoever or whatever actually wanted this to happen... was it pure opportunity? Was she a threat? Did she find something important?

[Where is her normal mask?]

[homeecspacecop]

Right, In- [Aoi, Chuuta! We're calling her Aoi.]

Aoi was a nice person. There wasn't a motive.

[finalring]

Maybe it was something opportune. She was there at the wrong place at the wrong time.

[ ... ]

The question is that why shoot Aoi first in the head and then continue stabbing her? Once again, it makes me think that the culprit was not able to understand that she had already died.