[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

[foundationmods]

....

then
I

will ask you


[[Are you sure you want to cheat?]]

[cw_suicide]

[.......... hmmm...

pulling out his reversi stone.]

Will we Bad End if we cheat?

[y/n, stone?]

[foundationmods]

[It lands on black.]

wAIT

yOU

.....

aH

I S ee

agaIN

hoW IntEresTing

iT is

IntegRaTED th at deePLY

your

strings

[cw_suicide]

So that's a "no" to Bad Ending.

[white_camellia]

...I still feel this is a bad idea, but...

I have already concluded that I shall not get in the way of everyone;s decisions on these matters.

[le_mat]

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[finalring]

I'm not sure if it's criticizing us or...

[ the narrator feels her sins crawling up her back. ]

[cw_suicide]

I'm trying not to think too hard about it except "black means no".

[oceanicbutterfly]

It might not be something "we" can fully understand from our perspective.

[improbablenotimpossible]

...Like before.

It seems to be playing on two levels.

[dereban]

Looks like we have no reason not to now, huh.

[finalring]

We might as well. The only thing is whether we asked the correct question or not. And our actions after we do this may influence our "ending" as well.

[onemolife]

Not necessarily. It says bad ending, but what counts as the ending?

[sageking]

Not necessarily.

[ Sip. ]

[cw_suicide]

The answer is we won't Bad End.

But that's not to say going about it this way will get us a Good End, either.

[justonezero]

So... should I say it, or...

[Should the narrator?]

[romancekiller]

Yeah, though just because it's not a bad end doesn't necessary mean something bad won't happen as a result of this. [she still has concerns]

[homeecspacecop]

[Chuuta, Drew doesn't like this.]

I know.

[Ask it about the strings, Chuuta.]

What... do you mean? What are you talking about?

[foundationmods]

your

strings



I cannot

explain further

[accessorytomurder]

...I don't...

[Hitoka?]

I don't think that's a bad thing, if it's true.

[Her voice is small at first, then strengthens.]

If we do have puppeteers, if we do have strings—then, at the very least, they've been pulling on us to keep moving forward, this whole time. To live. To... to find people and reasons to live. To win. ...e-even if we're trapped here with you, that means... it means, we're not fighting alone. We've got people rooting for us, and working hard for our sakes. So, s-so, um... if they're really watching, then...

[Hitoka...]

Thank you, so much. Please continue supporting us all, as we move forward.

[She'd bow, if she knew just where to direct it.]

[finalring]

It did say that the one of the narrators "likes" Inaba, no?

[ ... ]

Well, a "Player" would rarely put their piece in a game with the intention of losing. Therefore, whatever or whoever they are, they're still our allies. We cannot think of them as our enemies.

[le_mat]

... I don't like it, but if we are puppets then the one moving us would kinda be our SOUL right, in a weird way. If we wouldn't 'move' without them. If it's like that I guess I can accept them.

...if not I'm gonna shoot them once I figure out how.

[cw_suicide]

[... actually, Dazai can't even argue this. his sitch has gotten pretty good, honestly? so uh.]

Hitoka isn't wrong here.

[justonezero]

Even with everything that's happened... it's always worked out, hasn't it?

So... I don't think they want anything irreparably bad to happen to us, either. I think they're trying their best, too.

[justonezero]

Ask me what?