[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

[romancekiller]

[ okay well since this is happening she will comply for the check too ]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Perhaps because we anticipated it, and they decided to throw us off.

[accessorytomurder]

I've been surviving in a world of giants for half a dozen years. Let me have this.

[le_mat]

They work just as good as my old fingers, so yes.

Also if you ice them they hold cold for a long time which is great for randomly touching people. Oh, and watch this!

[He whips out his knife and like, stabs his hand???

Only it barely even bleeds and just kinda sticks there. Gross]

[finalring]

Ah... so you're suggesting someone may have been the one to push Atsushi off while another fished him out when he had drowned?

That could explain some of the disparity in the clothing sizes.

[homeecspacecop]

So they used me as the killer instead.

[foundationmods]

[At first, everything seems alright. As the knife slides out, the blade is clean. And once it's fully unfolded, the knife still looks clean.

But for that moment, while it's unfolding, the two of them will be able to catch a glimpse of the hinge that the blade pivots on. it's gunked up with blood and strands of hair.]

[accessorytomurder]

There were only two sets of footprints, but... no sign of a struggle...

[dereban]

... you don't think that they possessed multiple people during - ?

[SHE DOES NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!]

[oceanicbutterfly]

...yes.

[cw_suicide]

[................ oh.]

[justonezero]

Ah...

[Just two cm shy!]

mods?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes. Also may explain the different - Ah, did we ever check if the messages was in the same handwriting?

[onemolife]

[ oh... no ]

[lovecolored]

Oh, nasty.

[ she says that, but she also nods appreciatively. ]

[improbablenotimpossible]

We've been assuming the footprints is culprit and victim? What if two culprits carrying a victim?

[dereban]

That... explains... a lot.

[accessorytomurder]

[Oh no.]

[finalring]

...

[ ... ]

Don't look so surprised Dazai. It's clean, right?

[ giving him A Look. ]

[white_camellia]

...There is still a problem there. Only one set of footprints returned to Snowdin.

[sageking]

[ ... well, that's. That sure happened. ]

[le_mat]

Don't ask me how I learned it does that.

[foundationmods]

[I mean.

writing anything in the snow is extremely difficult and will never resemble someone's handwriting anyway, so.

EDIT BECAUSE I AM A FOOL: all three names in the snow are written in the same style though.]

[cw_suicide]

[I'LL BE GOOD MUFFLED IN THE DISTANCE BECAUSE HE JUST DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO???]

[ugly_split_ends]

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