thefoundation | [CONTINUE + 4] week 1 || act: indict

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round 6

[CONTINUE + 4] week 1 || act: indict

[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. Puppets, forced to dance where their strings lead.

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....surrounded by a sea of entirely gray faces, no Monsters to be seen.

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: ATSUSHI NAKAJIMA
ACT: VOTE

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...I'll go with the group.

[It was one thing to chant and to try to rules-lawyer at the Entity, but this is feeling pretty serious now and she isn't very sure of herself in this area.]

...It's not a bad idea to clarify 'would it lock us out of a good ending' perhaps?

Exactly. Which would not be "satisfying" for the entity.

We did, after the rule was put into place. ...granted, I wouldn't put it past this thing to just say that it won't tell us, after all this hype. My mother used to say something like, "the worst they can say is no" when it came to asking for things, but...

[She grimaces.]

The worst is a little... worse, here and now.

I'm not sure honestly but I'll go with whatever the majority decides. [and you know, just hope for the best!!]

A miraculous survival at the end. We'll make a proper magical girl of you yet.

...wait, is that what happened?

...I'll abstain. I really don't know which is better.

So that's seven votes in favor... four against it... Dazai's uncertain, and both Clarke and Karen are waiting for the majority vote. We just need a few more votes then.

There might not be a better option. But if you had a mystery that you didn't want to read until the end, would you skip to the reveal or continue reading?

Why's Drew sayin' no, again?

.... 'true or good ending' maybe.

You can be locked out of the true ending without being locked out of the good.

What happened the last trial, I assume.

If I'm a reader, I keep reading. If I'm the author, I have the ending in mind from the beginning.

...Does the entity even know the ending? Do they know what they're doing?

I don't think that would be a good idea. It's still talking about an ending, but not clarifying which. We're more concerned about consequences to this action. So we should try to figure out what those would be.