[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

catherd time!

[le_mat]

Looks like weapons are a no go unless someone is hiding something. We can probably narrow things down a little bit if we compare the smallest thing in the clothing pile to everyone- if we're assuming all the clothing was actually worn.

... we should also think of a number for our little project and get the Boss to sign off on it too.

[He lifts a finger to his lips in a 'shh' gesture]

[ugly_split_ends]

You wanna go treasure hunting after all? Ahahahahaha!

[le_mat]

[He sputters]

We're not body checking yet-!

1/3

[ugly_split_ends]

Even better! Work yourself up a little...

[pause]

2/3

[ugly_split_ends]

...uhuhuhuhuUHUHUHUH.

[Suddenly, Genocider Shou starts to convulse.]

3/3

[ugly_split_ends]

[Before her expression settles back into Fukawa's]

[oceanicbutterfly]

...that's true, we can't just assume the killer was wearing everything.

Re: catherd time!

[justonezero]

I think the smallest clothes looked about medium size to me, so that's still a lot of people.

[accessorytomurder]

Let's keep it to four digits; not too long and not too short, with memory issues in play.

[...yeah, that is totally the concern here.]

[dereban]

[Passes this over as discreetly as she possibly can.]

It has my suggestion as well.

[accessorytomurder]

Oh, that should work.

[finalring]

SCP-8000...it does have a ring to it.

[ he chuckles. ]

But the Winchester Incident has its own designation as well. SCP-5734. But that's me nitpicking.

[oceanicbutterfly]

That's a good choice.

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He gives a nod of approval]

[homeecspacecop]

[Are we going to keep working on the mystery?]

It really wants us to spend a lot of time solving this.

Why are we giving it what it wants?

[finalring]

It says that the win condition is to vote, but why would it be telling us how to win if it wants to destroy us? Either it is contradicting itself, or it's trying to fool us.

[cw_suicide]

They do outnumber us a little...

[looking at those gray beings]

[dereban]

... I don't really want to solve it, either.

But it's scary to think of what it might potentially do if we don't at least vote.

[onemolife]

We want to identify the last person it took over just in case it takes them over again or tries to grab them anyways.

[improbablenotimpossible]

There's a change in the circumstances of the investigation and trial - I'm interested in finding that 'why'.

[sageking]

Hmph, ridiculous. We don't plan on doing so in the end, so it hardly matters if we 'seem' to follow things as it were, at first.

[finalring]

I believe that there are some things that can be assumed that the killer wore. The sleeves and pant cuffs were soaked, right? maybe they had those on. We'd have to see the sizes for them, however.

[accessorytomurder]

If they were bent over to get to the body, we could cobble together their height and reach, to some extent. ...right?

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He gives the nod, giving the Spider a bit of pie before returning it to his inventory]

It's likely the weapon came from elsewhere so we should put that aside... so checking clothing, if they're wet, it's unlikely someone longer-limbed was wearing the smaller sizes.

[le_mat]

Did someone bring the clothes, we can compare the wet items and at least cut down the list a little.