[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

[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.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Or even were never aware of in the first place. None of us knows everything that happens in the Foundation.

[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?"

[ugly_split_ends]

... tack on a "Common Era" to the end?

[dereban]

I think that sounds fine to me.

[finalring]

Okay.

[ HE'LL TAKE THE REVERSI STONE OUT. ]

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?

[foundationmods]

[The Stone flips to white...

Then to it's edge.

Then back to white.

Then back to the edge.

Then back to wh-

BOOM

....

The stone exploded.]

[le_mat]

[Ren yelps, throwing his arm up to protect his eyes from the explosion]

Ugh... is this the rock version of 'ask again later"???

[lovecolored]

It's...confused?

[improbablenotimpossible]

That's... unexpected.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Aaaah!

[cw_suicide]

... uh.

[dereban]

... what the fuck?

Iiiiiis that a 'yes', or what?

[onemolife]

[ Grabbing Solomon to pull him back just in case... ]

I uh. Think that's a bad sign.

[finalring]

[ well he uh.

uh.

what? ]

I believe that the answer... is most likely yes.

[le_mat]

My head is spinning a little with all this rule lawyering, but I'll go with what you decide Boss.

[finalring]

Legal documents are not fun to write or read.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Really? I'd have thought it would be a skill you'd want to learn.

[Karen, the whole point of doing crimes is that you don't figure out a way for them to be legal.]

[romancekiller]

Yeah, I think with how specific that is, that sounds good.

[justonezero]

Let's do this!

[CHEAT CHEAT CHEAT.]

[accessorytomurder]

...do we count as the same team, even after the time loops?