[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]

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"???

[finalring]

More like something was probably trying to pull it back from answering.

[ ... ]

We shouldn't focus a lot on this. What we've ascertained is that we should not cheat.

[le_mat]

Well fuck... so what now? We can try the clothes, do a strip search. Or we can go with the 'project'

[lovecolored]

It's...confused?

[improbablenotimpossible]

That's... unexpected.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Aaaah!

[cw_suicide]

... uh.

[dereban]

... what the fuck?

Iiiiiis that a 'yes', or what?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Either the question was too specific for a 'yes' or 'no', or... there' interference? An overload?

[dereban]

Goddamn it.

So - what now? I assume we shouldn't go for it, then.

[onemolife]

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

I uh. Think that's a bad sign.

[finalring]

[ hE'S A LITTLE SHELL SHOCKED BUT HE'S FINE? CONFUSED BUT FINE? ]

It was never black. Therefore I think we can assume that the consequences will either be neutral or bad.

[finalring]

[ well he uh.

uh.

what? ]

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

[romancekiller]

[uh... what the hell was that?] What is that even supposed to mean?

[justonezero]

It couldn't tell which one?

[white_camellia]

...I feel like pointing out that even as it was shifting, it never shifted to black. If I were to guess...

The stone itself was trying to point to "yes", but something was trying to force it to give no results.

[cw_suicide]

Or it's a "yes, but..."

It was a pretty, ah... in-depth question.

[accessorytomurder]

Or... maybe it was trying to give results for each member of the team, too.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Or "consequences that may or may not be considered negative."

[homeecspacecop]

[Drew thinks it doesn't know.]

So it... might be okay but it might not? But it doesn't mean it's automatically going to be bad...

I wish Chief Laine was here...

[sageking]

[ ...

...Sloooow eyebrow raise? ]

That seems to not only include a 'yes', but so much so that the consequences were clearly too great for this answering device to bear.

[accessorytomurder]

...So, mostly yes, but also maybe, and then... an error. Like...

[Deep breath.]

Like a glitch. But not no.