[CONTINUE + 4] 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. 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

Comments

[accessorytomurder]

Well, you never know; given what I know about where you came from, maybe you would have been saddled with a cute and sassy lady-thief for a rival.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes, while Ren and I have significant others on the surface. I am trying to think of other possible connections...

...I apologize for this. A tendency to hide your feelings and thoughts from others.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Great.

[cw_suicide]

That's why I think this was done in mockery.

[finalring]

...

And those loved ones have been involved in a case in one way or another. But why would Dazai's finger not have a lock of hair on it?

[onemolife]

A gift for the boss, huh?

[dereban]

If you do, go for it... even if it's something shitty.

Anything's fine.

[cw_suicide]

More or less...

[improbablenotimpossible]

That is the rub: either it's intentional or they ran out of hairs.

[oceanicbutterfly]

That makes more sense, yes.

[onemolife]

Huh. That is pretty strange.

Clothes check

[lovecolored]

Alright, alright, we're startin' to run outta options, so let's do another clothes check. Empty out your pockets, take off your coats, turn your shoes upside down, et cetera!

Maybe shake out your hair just in case, too, if you're wearin' it up, ze.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Well you three, do have a tendency to 'conceal don't feel'.

Something I'm prone to myself.

[white_camellia]

...And thus there is an issue with a third one here, as well...

The possibility of it being linked to Ren-san also came up, but once again, while it matched at first, there was a third one that was out of place...

And then we had a possibility of connections to Astushi-san, but the one to Solomon-san is an odd one out...

[No matter what, we can make a connection between two, but the third doesn't fit?]

[onemolife]

[ Time to empty pockets and take off his outer robe. Stepping out his boots and then he'll shake them out. ]

Can someone get my hair?

[le_mat]

We always end up back here, huh?

[He follows along though]

[finalring]

[ ughhhh fine he'll do it. taking off his ponytail too ]

[dereban]

... Does anyone have a barrier for the girls at least?

[Since Atsushi did it last time and well, he's not here.]

[justonezero]

[Emptying his pockets! Taking off his hoodie and shaking it out! And his shoes!]

[homeecspacecop]

[Another clothes check, he'll turn out his pockets again.]

[white_camellia]

[Yes yes, she shall do so. She will also help with size comparisons to the clothes in the pictures if necessary, though obviously that is not something she's good at.]

[finalring]

I don't believe that it was unintentional. They could have taken hairs from the other two, for example.

But one rarely wears rings on their middle finger, no?

[dereban]

Ah, that is true, isn't it... although being called out on it is kinda...

[handgestures]

[finalring]

It is. I'm not sure what to make of the message it was trying to send.

[sageking]

[ He was wearing his armor...

But he did at least provide his whole wardrobe for people to look at, if they so desired. ]