[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

[cw_suicide]

Yeah, choosing the right words can be tricky... I'm guess its answer is probably based on what happened the last trial, though.

[we definitely Bad Ended that time...]

[onemolife]

Maybe we should have asked if cheating would be safe or if there would be consequences for doing so?

[improbablenotimpossible]

...It's not a bad idea to clarify 'would it lock us out of a good ending' perhaps?

[dereban]

.... 'true or good ending' maybe.

You can be locked out of the true ending without being locked out of the good.

[improbablenotimpossible]

That is true, there are games where the true ending is not the optimal one.

[dereban]

Yeah.

I'm still not sure if this is the right question... this would be our last shot.

[finalring]

It also depends on whether the owner of the stone will let us use it.

[dereban]

... Maybe we should ask her then?

[finalring]

...

Fukawa, can we use your Reversi stone to ask a question?

[ugly_split_ends]

Huh...? Oh, sure.

[She'll just hand that over.]

[finalring]

Thank you.

[ he'll take it in his hands, nodding in her direction. ]

[onemolife]

I don't think that would be a good idea. It's still talking about an ending, but not clarifying which. We're more concerned about consequences to this action. So we should try to figure out what those would be.

[cw_suicide]

Some people are more concerned about the overall result while others are focusing on this trial in particular, it seems...

[onemolife]

It's starting to seem more people are fine with whatever happens, so long as as the ends justifies it.

[cw_suicide]

[pokes him in the side]

And that's a button for you, isn't it.

[onemolife]

[ Grabbing that poking finger. This is his now. ]

I can admit that it is a bit of a button. I'm all for breaking this farce of a trial, but I don't like that there could be casualties or sacrifices just to get there.

[ since gestures at his whole canon ]

[cw_suicide]

No one for omelettes. Noted.

[finalring]

If we go this route, then we should clarify on whether it'll have negative consequences for us. Every action has consequences, after all.

[onemolife]

That would probably be better then.

[dereban]

That might be better...

We need to phrase it properly, though. Because 'us' is also pretty vague.

[finalring]

How about: "Will cheating bring the reconnaissance team negative consequences?"

[improbablenotimpossible]

That sounds good to me.

[dereban]

...Hm.

"The Foundation reconnaissance team sent to the Underground in Mount Ebott on August 30th, 2020"...?

[improbablenotimpossible]

...Right, it's possible there might have been another team we no longer remember.

[finalring]

Hm, so the question we're going with will be:

"Will cheating during the trial of Atsushi Nakajima bring negative consequences to the Foundation reconnaissance team sent to the Underground in Mount Ebott on August 30th, 2020?"