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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[ ah. ]

I've... made a couple. But none to Atsushi. And besides, most of us have made some sort of declaration that could be interpreted as a promise, no?

... I'm asking if you made one to anyone else.

And it has to be specifically a promise. Because - the entity mentioned a puppeteer.

Who says that Atsushi's pupeeteer isn't piloting other people?

[Just saying that makes her feel sick.]

[Atsushi's author is writing other characters! Who, Chuuta?]

They're probably writing a lot, if this really is some kind of story. Wouldn't that take up a lot of time?

I mean, writing always takes a lot of effort, I think.

Just ask Fukawa.

Why would Atsushi's puppeteer pilot other people, too?

My first guess would be because it's fun.

...Does that mean that all of the puppeteers are responsible for more than one person?

It seems more likely than not, I think.

Hmm...

Is there anyone he didn't really interact with?

We'd be here all day if I listed everyone, I think.

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justonezero - 2020-09-12 19:07 (UTC) - Expand

Because if you think about the previous "games", you'll realize that there's been different characters. Therefore either we have almost over a hundred different puppeteers, or they're piloting multiple characters.

Oh...

...

But Atsushi's puppeteer should only be puppeteering him for now, right?

We can't say for certain. Once you start talking about other planes, you may end up realizing that all of this is built to be someone else's game board.

Especially if we include every time the ritual was held with SCP-6219...

How many puppeteers even are there at this point?

Who knows. At most it would be as many "puppets" there are. You could make the argument that this is all one person's doing, but from what the entity suggests, there should at least be more than one.

Then, for the time being, we should assume there are at least seventeen of them and work from there. Unfortunately, I am uncertain as to what the next step would be. We could try to look for patterns in how individuals are chosen for missions and work from there, but it is entirely possible that there is no pattern to it at all...

...On that note, if I may, do you recall how you decided who would enter the Winchester House with you?

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finalring - 2020-09-12 17:50 (UTC) - Expand

There were thirty-one participants involved in the hotel incident, right? Assuming that wasn't the last time that there were new puppeteers, and allowing some extras to perhaps have been controlling other important figures at the time, forty seems like a good estimate.

So they can participate. Nakajima-san hasn't been involved in most of the incidents, right?

I guess not...

But who else would his puppeteer, uh, puppet?

If it's a matter of being able to participate in games where the same people aren't present, I think that narrows it down. It would be someone who hasn't been a "participant" alongside Nakajima-san.

I've made promises to Mission Control. I've made promises to this group as a whole. While I understand the concern and know that the likelihood of it being correct is high, I can't say for certain who else Atsushi's puppeteer would be piloting.

Mm... yeah, we can't confirm or deny it either way.

[She shakes her head.]

Sorry.

No need to apologize. I know that you want to get to the bottom of this.

I do, but at the same time... the idea of 'solving' the 'greater mystery' that the entity poses... scares me.

It's kinda...cosmic-level spooky, ain't it?

[ Marisa has been quiet so far, but she speaks up now. ]

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