[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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[cw_suicide]

[--and then the pain's back and even worse than ever.

and pretty much anything he might say or think is drowned out by incoherent screaming bUT HE WOULD IN FACT NOT MIND THE STOP BUTTON JUST NOW TOO BAD IT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE]

[homeecspacecop]

[They feel it, both of them, all in a rush. ]

Sympathy!

[And Chuuta, quite suddenly, does not exist.

There are three of him, all at once, wings outstretched and SPH glowing blue as it fires from Drew's mouth at the tentacles in bursts of slicing energy shaped to cut those twisting tentacles into neatly-sliced bits. But he isn't real? He can't be attacked back, because Chuuta no longer exists.]

[foundationmods]

[That's neat -

except another tendril from another gray being rises up and slaps all three of them.

...]

[justonezero]

[Oh, he... he can see them again...

Any numbers with useful information that won't make his head explode trying to read them?]

[backspacing]

[I mean. Staring at the Abyss isn't a good idea. Yoshi is going to start to feel the familiar sensation that goes along with eye-bleeding.

But after a second of that, his vision will be taken up by Red's numbers, because she is absolutely hugging him and being a human shield right now.]

Don't look at it.

[sageking]

[


Well. Gate of Babylon sure as fuck was open, and he can absolutely control the trajectory of his weaponry so no friendly fire worries.

Also he was spamming swords, spears, and what have you at the gray being, tendrils, and such. So. KINDLY EAT SHIT, CREATURE. ]

[foundationmods]

[Destroying one causes more tendrils to erupt from other gray beings around, but it's clear from the noises that it's not fun to get yeeted at by a bunch of weapons.]

[finalring]

[ OH WITH HIS POWERS BACK he is going to try attacking one of the tendrils with magic. ]

GET AWAY FROM HIM!

[foundationmods]

[It does work, a minor shriek echoing in the area. Stupid Noble phantasms stripping away it's everything.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

Precure Metamorphose!

[Cure Aqua doesn't even bother with the introductory speech, jumping straight to hitting the nearest tendril with an Aqua Stream.]

[foundationmods]

[PRESSURE CUTTERS HURT AND IT'S ALL WET NOW]

[accessorytomurder]

OSAMU!

[She acts with animal, thoughtless speed, trying to FIGHT him, to get him away from that thing, to do something.

If it works...

She'll immediately slam that shiny new PROVOKE button.]

[foundationmods]

[It's a good effort! But the problem is that trying to pull up the menu on Dazai also pulls up the menu on the tentacles, since they're all taking up one space right now. And while she would be able to FIGHT Dazai normally, the tentacles makes it exit out, just like it did before.]

[white_camellia]

[Okay, you know what? First thing's first. She is immediately transforming and applying her Skills.

Remove all enemy buffs, reduce enemy defense, increase all allies' attack.]

[finalring]

[ he will be casting his own team buffs as well! attack up for everyone! ]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Let's begin!

It's rudimentary, my friend.

[A bronze sphere appears behind him - the ruler leaping on top of it as several man-sized lenses appear, focusing brilliantly bright light onto the gray figure, his own eyes glowing an intense green as he whispers, his fingers steepled together]

Elementary my Dear...

[With that, he points, and the intense lights focus on the figure, becoming blinding - strip away the mystery, strip away the means that prevent the solution, and reveal the solution to everyone by exploiting openings what he sees]

[foundationmods]

[Interestingly, Sherlock will actually see something. A bit of the mystery being stripped back.

A white door with a symbol on it, hidden in darkness, with the sound of water nearby...

That's all he gets though.]

[le_mat]

Kohryu!!!

[god it feels good to summon again, but as much as he'd like to attack he sets to work healing Dazai

But as he's doing that he will open his Third Eye wide, trying to sense all that belief and hope, like from the fight against the Grail. If their determination, their faith in each other, their everything... if it's here then maybe he can use That Attack again...?]

[foundationmods]

[There is a bit....but there's just a little missing for that attack.]

[ugly_split_ends]

[There's a buzzing of Fukawa's stun gun, a cackle of manic laughter, and Genocider Shou comes out to play.

A pair of scissors flies through the air at the tendrils!]

[foundationmods]

[the scissors go in!

....and start slowly being eaten up.

...Yikes?]

[onemolife]

[



Ah.

Quck. There aren't any bodies near by to use, and who knows if Atsushi is a Popsicle.

So he's going to bring his flute to his lips to play a soothing song to help ease the pain, and strengthen Dazai's soul. Please work please work]

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[onemolife]

[ He watches as more tendrils shoot up to replace the previous ones. With Ren on healing, he'll switch the tune of his song to something more desperate and filled with anger. His eyes will start to glow red.

Come on. Dazai is in danger. You want to help, right?


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A few moments later, there will be loud roaring from some where outside of the core ]

[lovecolored]

[ Well, she's delighted that she can use magic again, but it's not so delightful that it's at the cost of...this. Marisa floats up into the air and pulls out her hakkero. ]

Master Spark!

[ It's a massive rainbow-tinted, white-hot laser she's aiming right at the tendrils, though it...seems to just be a pretty light show for everyone else. Might be a bit disorienting, though. ]

[foundationmods]

[That nets a shriek, one tendril dissolving as more shoot out.]