[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

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[foundationmods]

THE CULPRIT

HAS TO BE SOMEONE

IN UNIVERSE


THAT IS THE RULES

[white_camellia]

And yet, here you are, active in this universe, interacting with us.

[sageking]

And yet, it is you who is sitting upon the throne, right in front of us right now.

In a way, you are in-universe now, aren't you?

[finalring]

Indeed. If you do not count as in-universe, then neither do any of the 6350s, who all hail from their own universe.

[foundationmods]

NO

THEY COUNT

BECAUSE OF THE NARRATORS

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RECITE TO ME

WHY I AM WRONG

I KNOW MORE THAN ANY OF YOU SUBJECTS

[finalring]

Just because you know what our Narrators are saying does not mean that you know what they are thinking. They will find the gaps in your faulty logic because you are not a perfect being. You will never be a perfect being.

[ he smiles. ]

How would you know if you don't have a Narrator of your own who is plotting your very own demise?

[sageking]

...First of all, you're wrong because WE are not your subjects, you insolent creature. Before you stand two true sovereigns, which something like you could never dream of becoming in the first place.

Second, you're wrong because you can't know everything. After all, only I am one who has Seen Everything, and something as pathetic and miserable as you cannot hope to achieve such a thing even in a long lifetime.

Third, you're forgetting the moment you took a form in this universe that you subjected yourself to its rules. Since you are the culprit, and have been voted for, it's now time for you to submit yourself to the ultimate form of punishment!

[finalring]

[ under his breath: ] Took you three trips to the Underworld to realize anything though.

[accessorytomurder]

You never notified us of that. How do we know you're not just making that up right now so you don't lose?

[Like an angry, sore loser of a little kid in an escalating game of imagination.]

[foundationmods]

YOU

CANNOT KNOW

YES

OH, I SEE.

I CANNOT BE MAD

AT THE TOOLS

[le_mat]

Oh, don't try to make yourself feel better by saying it's the Narrators alone that did this. Without us, they'd have nothing to 'narrate' anyway.

[justonezero]

[Also this narrator wanted to cheat personally so fuck u SCP-8000]

You keep saying a lot of "you cannot know" and stuff like that... what are you talking about, exactly?

[foundationmods]

THERE IS

AN ALLEGORY

FOR THIS

YOU ARE ALL

STILL IN THE CAVE

I HAVE

WALKED OUTSIDE

TO TRY AND EXPLAIN

WHAT I HAVE SEEN

WOULD BE

IMPOSSIBLE

[improbablenotimpossible]

[His eyes widen slightly]

[lovecolored]

Try us.

[ try to explain, o scary one ]

[finalring]

So you were a puppet too, once upon a time.

No no, I believe that you still are. Perhaps you blinded yourself when you stepped out, so you do not know what real light is.

[dereban]

... Plato's Cave?

What about it?

[ugly_split_ends]

...So, Plato's cave.

[sageking]

What, you are attempting to state that the story of your so-called ascension would too difficult to explain to those you consider beneath you? What rubbish.

[dereban]

You've made two mistakes.

By speaking to us, you've become a part of 'this universe'. By sitting down on that throne, you have become a physical part of it. You can't take that back now.

[foundationmods]

NO

THIS IS JUST

AN OUTCROPPING

A COLLECTION

OF DESTROYED DATA

OF DELETED BEINGS

THE SCRAPS OF MEAT

FROM THE ABYSS

[dereban]

Except you're utilizing that 'data', correct? Which means all their input, all their controls... they're all you.

[oceanicbutterfly]

As far as any of us can tell, you are in universe. Right in front of us, in fact.

[I gotta say, I agree.]

[foundationmods]

[SILENCE, NARRATION]

SILENCE

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Eat my entire ass, Courier New.]

If you know so much more than us, you can't be surprised when we don't obey the rules you never told us about.