[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]

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.

[homeecspacecop]

There's always just enough evidence to catch the murderer, but not so much that it's really obvious.

[Or the murderer isn't allowed to confess!]

[cw_suicide]

We caught all of our culprits in the Winchester house--even though at least one of those was pure dumb luck. The evidence made sense after the fact, though.

[homeecspacecop]

Even when...

When I was framed, there was enough evidence to point to the real killer.

[oceanicbutterfly]

In my case we didn't find enough to point specifically to the right person, but... I don't think that means it didn't exist.

[dereban]

[pipes in here]

There is only one exception to that...

But I think that's because of that game's particular setup.