[CONTINUE + 3] week 1 || act: indict

[foundationmods]

[Saturday dawns, bright and early again. No one comes to the Inn, but you feel compelled to go to the Core anyway.

It's as if you're forced to. As if....it's inescapable.

You make the walk past everything, until you are directly in the Core, 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: YOSHI NANASE
ACT: VOTE

Comments

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-You're one to talk! You do the exact same thing!

[le_mat]

Yeah, and I can take having my honor insulted better than Gio can. The guy clearly takes his brand of 'evil' really seriously. You're being a bully.

[ugly_split_ends]

W-What the hell... so I'm supposed to tell him: "Oh! I'm sorry Mr. Yiff! Obviously I'm just too much of a loser to take it seriously when you try to hurt me by b-being 'kind' to me?"

Y-You're the same... I i-insulated myself to being scorned and hated and being bullied l-long ago... so you found a new way by attacking me with your 'kindness'... and I'm supposed to fall for it?!

[le_mat]

Either we're telling the truth and you're being an ass- or you're right and you're sinking to our level.

You lose the victim card when you do the exact same thing back.

1/3

[ugly_split_ends]

S-Sh-Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up!!

[She grabs a handful of hair on each side of her head and tugs as she collapses inward, clearly distressed and reeling.]

[ugly_split_ends]

V-Victim card... who the hell wants that... I never wanted or needed it. I just know better! My entire life has been n-nothing but people hating me. S-Scorning me. W-Who cares if I do it preemptively?! Am I really to believe there's a group of people out there who would gladly be my 'f-friend'? That all I had to do was try...? And be c-completely honest about having a s-serial killer as a split personality?!

3/3

[ugly_split_ends]

I-I know what's really going on! I'm being ganged up on, like I always am! "Oh, Fukawa, if only you weren't such a psychological train wreck of a human being, you might have some friends who care about you!" I-Is that supposed to make me happy?? It's not going to change anything, so you lose the ability to say "I'm trying to be friends with you," card!

[le_mat]

...

Would us not trying make you happy? Are you happy alone? I was alone once too... I can't go back- I can't just let someone else feel like that if I can help them.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...Karen nods.]

I would rather do almost anything than go back to those days.

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-Yeah! I'd fucking love it! Just let me go back to my isolation with my books and my manuscripts and my poems that are wasted on you, anyway!

[She's crying fiercely, trying to do her best from holding back outright sobbing.]

...BUT I CAN'T, CAN I?? I need to work with you all, so get used to it!

[le_mat]

....

...okay.

[And that's that. He tried, but he can't argue outright with her saying 'leave me alone'. He looks hurt, but he will respect it]

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[>Social link broken.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[This is painful to watch.]

[ugly_split_ends]

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