[CONTINUE + 2] Week 1 || Act: mingle

[foundationmods]

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your third 'time' trying this monday.

There doesn't seem to be many Monsters here...or at least, you think there was more before? Huh.

Well, whatever.

You still have a mission - And with two trials under your belt, you're now a little closer to figuring things out.

...How much longer will this repeat?

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[improbablenotimpossible]

So from that angle... is it possible that it doesn't need a particular SOUL but a combination of them?

But it does seem like they're not focused on grabbing the murdered SOUL as attempting to throw in the 'culprit'...

[There is a risky way to test it, and he hates that he even thought of it]

[cw_suicide]

Think of it this way: it knows at least one blue and two yellows. If it has need of either of those colors, it could easily get to them at this point. Purple has been claimed in the core, but is that where the proper claiming of a SOUL occurs?

... the books Gilgamesh found in the Librarby state very clearly that our SOULS are very powerful. So to leave SOULS laying around like that does make it out like blue and yellow are not the ones they are looking for.

Moreover... doesn't the SOUL shatter when thrown into the core? That's why the Professor is vanishing the way he is.

So it is possible that the core scenario fulfills something that they require, but more importantly, they are hunting for a specific colored SOUL.

What was that thing in the books about the collection of SOULS? I could swear there was something about that...

[sageking]

About the collection of a human SOUL being able to give a Monster Determination, and that it must be consensual on both ends? Or about what a Monster could do with the shard of a human SOUL, but happens to be not known as of yet?

[cw_suicide]

... both.

[sageking]

Hmph, well. It's hard to truly say if a Monster could obtain something like 'Determination' from the single shard of a human SOUL, but that may change upon the collection of different human SOULs' shards.

That said, one might say the reason they went after that Detective may be a combination of that and the fact that he also coincidentally had an immensely close connection to the one who had been erased—the latter of which wasn't a condition Ren could have any hope of fulfilling.

[cw_suicide]

If that's so, then our good detective would be either the next killed or possessed once again unless there is also a "can only possess a person once" clause.

It just doesn't really make much sense otherwise.

But it could have also just been a matter of convenience that there was a close connection. Not a requirement.

But if you think about it, what is one way to pressure someone like the people in this group to do something as hasty as... oh... willingly give up their SOUL?

... the answer is exactly the thing I did in the previous meeting.

[sageking]

It is entirely possible that it could've been a rather convenient coincidence.

[ He had really nothing substantial to prove it, and at this time it would be best to keep their options open. ]

...Are you implying that, should someone sacrifice themselves to volunteer as the voted 'culprit' in the real culprit's place, then that would be ultimately tantamount to their entire SOUL being at risk instead of simply just a shard?

[ He, at least assumed Dazai was referring to the volunteer episode. ]

[cw_suicide]

Yes. More or less.

[which makes him the biggest fool and clown and he knows it]

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He steeples his hands, listening to this]

It's perhaps a good thing that didn't go as planned...

[cw_suicide]

Emotion prevailed over logic on that one, admittedly.

[sageking]

...Yes, it was.

[ He'll admit it wasn't really the best thought-out plan he had supported. But, when it came to Solomon, it made sense he wasn't really able to be all that logical; despite it being a plan based in logic. ]

[sageking]

Well, regardless, I suppose there is a chance of that seeming like a high possibility of being true, so it's best to keep that in the mind for the future.

[ ...Like now the idea of this made him feel like kind of ... you know. So at least there was solidarity.

Whatever. It wasn't like the others hadn't come up with in-hindsight-shitty ideas anyway. But, still good to know. And he's not going to sit in 'oh I was wrong to support this' for more than five minutes feeling sorry for himself. ]

Regardless, we've other matters to consider as well, though it seems we may have come up with a tentative plan regarding our attempt to prevent another incident from occurring.

[improbablenotimpossible]

If it works, we can proceed, if not... well we will learn more about our opponent.

[sageking]

Just like before; hmph, well it'd be better if we could learn more faster.

[ He's impatient; probably just like everyone else, but in a situation like this being patient wasn't easy ]

[le_mat]

I.... never considered that.

[cw_suicide]

Obviously, I didn't either until just now.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...]

Now I'm concerned about voting. If a culprit votes for themself, is that also...

[cw_suicide]

... well.

[thinking about his own vote the last time. uh.]

That's certainly a concern if the theory stands...

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Mood, first time.]

It might be too "passive" to count, but I think it would be safer to avoid it nevertheless when we have enough of a consensus otherwise.