[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

[finalring]

What do we have in common outside of being in the Foundation?

[improbablenotimpossible]

You are all in relationships with people who are here with you is one that comes to mind.

[finalring]

...

And those loved ones have been involved in a case in one way or another. But why would Dazai's finger not have a lock of hair on it?

[improbablenotimpossible]

That is the rub: either it's intentional or they ran out of hairs.

[finalring]

I don't believe that it was unintentional. They could have taken hairs from the other two, for example.

But one rarely wears rings on their middle finger, no?

[onemolife]

Huh. That is pretty strange.

[finalring]

It is. I'm not sure what to make of the message it was trying to send.

[white_camellia]

...And thus there is an issue with a third one here, as well...

The possibility of it being linked to Ren-san also came up, but once again, while it matched at first, there was a third one that was out of place...

And then we had a possibility of connections to Astushi-san, but the one to Solomon-san is an odd one out...

[No matter what, we can make a connection between two, but the third doesn't fit?]

[finalring]

Indeed. There are too many things that are out of place...I don't want to believe that this is a mystery that cannot be solved but...

Well, perhaps it shouldn't.

[improbablenotimpossible]

If we focus on what we knew about previous murders, what if...?

[finalring]

What if what?

[improbablenotimpossible]

We had seen it possess two monsters during a trial.

[finalring]

Ah... so you're suggesting someone may have been the one to push Atsushi off while another fished him out when he had drowned?

That could explain some of the disparity in the clothing sizes.

mods?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes. Also may explain the different - Ah, did we ever check if the messages was in the same handwriting?

[foundationmods]

[I mean.

writing anything in the snow is extremely difficult and will never resemble someone's handwriting anyway, so.

EDIT BECAUSE I AM A FOOL: all three names in the snow are written in the same style though.]

[accessorytomurder]

There were only two sets of footprints, but... no sign of a struggle...

[improbablenotimpossible]

We've been assuming the footprints is culprit and victim? What if two culprits carrying a victim?

[white_camellia]

...There is still a problem there. Only one set of footprints returned to Snowdin.

[dereban]

... you don't think that they possessed multiple people during - ?

[SHE DOES NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!]