[CONTINUE + 4] Week 1 || act: investigate

[foundationmods]

[Everything is still, silent, and dark - just like it should be.

But there is still, undeniably...

a feeling of foreboding.

You know what this is.

One of your own...has perished.

At the hands of one of you.]

((One person only in each spot, please!))

Comments

[finalring]

We presented various options on how to break the script tomorrow. What do we want to go for?

[improbablenotimpossible]

If we go with confession, you have to let me know first so I know what to present.

[le_mat]

We might need to plant stuff on our scapegoat too, if we go that route.

[finalring]

And I believe that our scapegoat should be someone that has been forced to kill before.

If it has over someone new every week, then chances are that it has followed that same pattern this week as well. So if we choose someone that has already been a victim of its possession, then there's less of a chance that we'll accidentally get the right culprit.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...I never did get to vote for "His Majesty."

[sageking]

I already dislike this idea enough as it is. Do not think I will agree to such a thing so easily, if at ALL.

[finalring]

[ SIGH ] We are not scapegoating someone that's unwilling.

[improbablenotimpossible]

So that will mean, Gilgamesh, myself, and Miss Marisa...

[And... that person but he's not volunteering the spider]

[oceanicbutterfly]

You're off the table, then. Is anyone more willing?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Well...

[He starts]

[finalring]

...

Are you sure?

[sageking]

[ Jk he left just to get a drink because he does whatever he wants the entity can suck it. Anyway that explained why he was back. ]

We mentioned something about 'leaving' at some point in the trial, after explaining the situation.

[le_mat]

I agree, though after that little power it showed off we might not get the chance. But we should at least try.

...

Also there's someone who we might need to keep their mouths shut if we want this to work.

[whomst the fuck, Ren]

[sageking]

Tch...

[ He'll frown. In retrospect that could mean suddenly it could cut off all of their options for deviating...but he didn't want to believe that.

The announcement did kind of remind him of how something else too and he's back to scowling. ]

Someone? Who?

[le_mat]

The Narrator. Or Narrators. Which ever it is.

Assuming it's a living thing or things and not just some power the Entity has.

[... uh, pretty sure that's against some kind of rule]

[finalring]

If it's the type of Narrators that I'm used to, they probably won't. Not when narration is such an important part of any story.

[le_mat]

You're probably right, but I will say this:

[he looks at each of the party in turn]

I know in my "game" there was a big twist because some information was hidden even from the player. If a story is what they want, sometimes you gotta kick down the conventions, right?

Of course I'm probably just insane and talking to thin air. But it's something to think about.

[justonezero]

We talked about something like an analogue game where everyone has to be there on schedule, right?

So if this is really a "game" to them, shouldn't they be trying to win with us, too?

[improbablenotimpossible]

The trick is figuring out what the overarching 'rules' are.

[He makes a displeased noise with what he said next]

Knox's Decalogue and Van Dine's Commandments are often held as gold standards for fair play mysteries. However, it doesn't mean you can't make a solvable mystery if you violate them - You just need to understand why the rules exist, or what you are doing.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...if it really is multiple living things, they must be communicating with each other about what we're doing, right? Otherwise the narration would be inconsistent.

[sageking]

I do believe that "power" the Entity has isn't exclusive to itself, no matter how conceited it has ended up being.

[ ......admittedly Gilgamesh hadn't thought much of the narrating or whatever it was because there was A Lot to focus on. ]

[finalring]

That depends on whether the entity can force the remaining of the monsters to block our exits.

[ ... ]

But there has always been some form of ruler in the trials, right? [ his memory is so fuzzy, after all... ] So if we can explain the situation to them, then perhaps we may be allowed to leave early.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...the problem is, I don't know if we can safely assume it won't be... "that."

[finalring]

That's another problem.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Although I suppose the entity won't really need an explanation of why we're leaving, either.