[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

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He freezes for a moment]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...hm]

[le_mat]

Sherlock-san?

[improbablenotimpossible]

...

Did I check...?

[le_mat]

...

I mean, you're a detective, even if you didn't look specifically you probably noticed details that you could use to make a conclusion after the fact, yeah?

[...]

[cw_suicide]

... glossed over narrative?

[le_mat]

Fingergun wink. You got it.

[hey!]

[improbablenotimpossible]

...Ah, a bit like how my dear... friend had done.

[le_mat]

Umhm. If the rules are bullshit no reason we can't bullshit too.

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Knox can go soak his prissy head]

[homeecspacecop]

That's how detective stories are always written, right?

[le_mat]

Right. The twist is always something they don't explain until it comes up later but always makes sense when explained.

[improbablenotimpossible]

It depends on if we're dealing with a "Fair play" or "Unfair play."

A fair play must always present solvable clues or details for the reader to solve... I admit My friend's writings predate the concept of having it be solvable by the reader.

[le_mat]

More a story than a puzzle.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes... he had more of a storyteller's than an observer's sense. He did try to write more 'proper' historical novels.

They weren't as popular.

[le_mat]

Ouch, poor guy.

Once this is over though I'd like to read them.

[homeecspacecop]

[Then these murders are all fair play.]

Right, because we're supposed to solve them.

There's always enough evidence...

[Even the other times, like the camp!]

Right, there's always been enough evidence. So were those...?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Fair play - like puzzles. In the Witch's game, The witch Nirrti always strived to make the mystery solvable without it being too obvious as to who the culprit was.

[romancekiller]

You're not sure if you did?

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He gave a silent nod]

[romancekiller]

[clarke hears all that talk about the narrative and honestly it is making her head hurt trying to think about it so she just doesn't. instead she focuses on the evidence part of this] I could always provide confirmation if you have pictures to see if I can determine anything else about it.

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He pulls out his phone and offers it over with the pictures up]

mods?

[romancekiller]

[clarke takes a look at the pictures. is she able to confirm it? and would there be anything else she can determine about the death from the photos?]

[white_camellia]

...Did something happen?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Sorry - just having a moment of uncertainty. That's all...