[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

VERDICT....?

[foundationmods]

[The box with votes vanishes, and there's a moment of silence before the Gray Being on the throne speaks.]

Y

You have

Voted for....SCP-8000

....

[There's nothing but silence.

It's deafening.]

Do

you

think

you

are

funny?

[The voice is...not the spider's. It's a voice...that sounds as if it is coming from corruption itself, from static and darkness and the faintest shrieks of agony.]

You are breaking it

You are breaking the rules

This is an invalid answer

IT'S AN INVALID ANSWER!!

[....Is it....


Angry?]

[justonezero]

[EAT SHIT ENTITY.]

Huh? There wasn't a rule against it, though?

[foundationmods]

THERE IS

THE RULES

THE RULES

YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN ABLE TO CONCEIVE OF THIS

[sageking]

Is it? After all, it is the true culprit.

We're not breaking the rules if it's the truth, you miserable pile of waste.

[foundationmods]

THE CULPRIT

HAS TO BE SOMEONE

IN UNIVERSE


THAT IS THE RULES

[improbablenotimpossible]

But is it wrong? Technically, you are the culprit - we were merely weapons in your hands.

[foundationmods]

NO

NO NO NO

WRONG

STOP DESTROYING IT

[le_mat]

Not having fun anymore?

[foundationmods]

[There's something that sounds the screech one hears from a corrupted game.]

[lovecolored]

[ yeah get all the Just Monikas out of your system, buddy ]

And yet, that's how we answered.

[foundationmods]

[I CAN READ YOU, NARRATOR]

IT

IS

WRONG

[white_camellia]

Then, you acknowledge the title for yourself?

[foundationmods]

NO

IT IS NOT MY NAME

YOU CAN NEVER KNOW MY NAME

[finalring]

Are we breaking the rules?

You gave us six hours and a mission to vote for the killer. In fact, you told us that voting was the winning condition. Voting for who was never specified.

If you kill someone with a gun, that does not make the gun the culprit, does it?

[foundationmods]

BUT I AM NOT THE CULPRIT

THAT IS NOT THE RULES

THAT IS NOT THE RULES

STOP DESTROYING IT

[dereban]

It's not a joke because none of us are laughing.

[She certainly isn't, as she gives the being a rather stern look.]

If it was against the rules, perhaps you should have stated them to begin with. But in no way was there a rule that said that we could not collectively write a vote for you, and give you a name.

[foundationmods]

THIS IS

WRONG

ALL WRONG

YOU CANNOT GIVE ME A NAME

YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR ME

IT IS INVALID

[cw_suicide]

[someone is flinching pretty damn hard at the INVALID ANSWER bit because...]

[onemolife]

[ Brushing an arm against his. ]

[foundationmods]

YOU.


YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU.

YOU ARE THE CULPRIT


.....




PERHAPS

THIS IS

NOT AS TERRIBLE

AS I THOUGHT

Re: VERDICT....?

[oceanicbutterfly]

It's what we truly believe to be the correct answer. That's what you wanted, isn't it?

[romancekiller]

We voted though just like you wanted us to. [no rule breaking happening here since it didn't specify anything about being "right" either]

Why is that an invalid answer?

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[homeecspacecop]

But you did it. You're the true culprit.

VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERDICT VERD

[foundationmods]

I ONLY NEED

A LITTLE MORE

[From the gray being....

comes a tendril, blacker than anything ever seen. It swallows light. It is the absence of light. It is in that deep, imaginary shade....the darkest realm of blue to exist, the one that only appears upon pressure on your eyeballs.]

I HAVE BEEN

WAITING

FOR SO LONG

I WILL NOT

WAIT

ANY LONGER

IT MUST PROCEED

I WILL

TAKE THE SOUL

[That impossible tendril -

Snakes around them, past bodies and defenses, until...

It slams directly through Dazai's chest.

No blood...but it grips onto something.

And begins to pull.]