[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

[dereban]

It's not a joke because none of us are laughing.

[She certainly isn't, as she gives the being a rather stern look.]

If it was against the rules, perhaps you should have stated them to begin with. But in no way was there a rule that said that we could not collectively write a vote for you, and give you a name.

[cw_suicide]

[someone is flinching pretty damn hard at the INVALID ANSWER bit because...]

Re: VERDICT....?

[oceanicbutterfly]

It's what we truly believe to be the correct answer. That's what you wanted, isn't it?

[foundationmods]

THE CULPRIT

HAS TO BE SOMEONE

IN UNIVERSE


THAT IS THE RULES

[foundationmods]

NO

NO NO NO

WRONG

STOP DESTROYING IT

[foundationmods]

[There's something that sounds the screech one hears from a corrupted game.]

[white_camellia]

And yet, here you are, active in this universe, interacting with us.

[justonezero]

Why not?

I mean, you keep taunting us and stuff, so... It's pretty obvious it's you.

[sageking]

And yet, it is you who is sitting upon the throne, right in front of us right now.

In a way, you are in-universe now, aren't you?

[romancekiller]

We voted though just like you wanted us to. [no rule breaking happening here since it didn't specify anything about being "right" either]

Why is that an invalid answer?

[accessorytomurder]

You never notified us of that. How do we know you're not just making that up right now so you don't lose?

[Like an angry, sore loser of a little kid in an escalating game of imagination.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Stop destroying what? This game? Your fun? It helps if you explain your meaning.

[foundationmods]

[I CAN READ YOU, NARRATOR]

IT

IS

WRONG

[le_mat]

[He covers his ears, wincing]

Ow??

[foundationmods]

NO

IT IS NOT MY NAME

YOU CAN NEVER KNOW MY NAME

[dereban]

You've made two mistakes.

By speaking to us, you've become a part of 'this universe'. By sitting down on that throne, you have become a physical part of it. You can't take that back now.

[finalring]

Indeed. If you do not count as in-universe, then neither do any of the 6350s, who all hail from their own universe.

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[foundationmods]

BUT I AM NOT THE CULPRIT

THAT IS NOT THE RULES

THAT IS NOT THE RULES

STOP DESTROYING IT

[white_camellia]

I am aware of that more than anyone else. And that is why, the first step to bringing you down, is giving you definition and form. A title, if you will. Or a label.

[foundationmods]

THIS IS

WRONG

ALL WRONG

YOU CANNOT GIVE ME A NAME

YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR ME

IT IS INVALID

[oceanicbutterfly]

No, and I'm sure we're happier that way.

[foundationmods]

[ANGRY SHRIEK OF DYING ELECTRONICS]

[foundationmods]

YOU....

I LACK

THE POWER

TO MAKE YOU STOP

I MUST

CONTINUE

CLIMBING...

[finalring]

The rules are not being destroyed. We are simply filling in the gaps that you have left open.

You are the one that is possessing others to bring about your game. In that sense, you are the culprit. Just because you do not like it when the game turns on you doesn't mean that you can claim an injustice.