Week 4

[airlockedmods]

[After everything that this case was, you probably don't want to deal with anything else. But you wake up on Sunday, just like before, with some new memories, and some new stores to check out.

Let's see what this week brings.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Don't forget to check in, and check your memory regains! You can also stop by the gacha machine and Xander's office hours. ))

Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

I do kind of wonder about the motives in general, and why some people get off relatively light some weeks. Maybe Church is onto something. Maybe the game is rigged towards certain outcomes, and if so, we might want to think about what they get out of doing that.

I also want to point out that, as far as I remember between last time and this one, the trials and investigations seem engineered to always happen on the same day of the week, even when a time limit to the motive isn't specified. I want to know how the hell they're doing it.

[burninglight]

Indeed, I hesitate to call the timing of matters sheer coincidence. And I'm rather in agreement that the motives are...questionable. I told Church myself that I think there to be nothing I would kill for here.

Which, in the interest of full disclosure, is not a way of saying I am remotely above murder for all manner of reasons. I simply can imagine nothing I could be offered worth more than killing Xander and his superiors.

[misanthropicprinciple]

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[That Junpei can doesn't need to be said. Wherever his train of thought goes, it comes back out the tunnel as:]

The memories, too. If they can mess with our heads like that, who's to say they're not doing it to get us to kill? And if they're not, figuring out why not may be just as important. Is it the deaths they need, or our willing participation?

[burninglight]

Xander's referred to this whole thing using the word 'experiment', for what it's worth. Which implies several different ways to interpret the matter.

[misanthropicprinciple]

There's the experiment aspect. We've talked about the formation of the Ultimate Champion, also. If they just wanted to create someone who could get away with murder, though, why not kidnap a bunch of assassins for it? There's gotta be something else they're after, I just... I just don't know enough.

[ratherdoweddings]

A schedule... You're right. It's almost like those people who would go for a motive or what have you are being manipulated to some degree to do it at certain times. Maybe that's the experiment.

[cyan_maid]

But what use even is an Ultimate Champion? What would they be for? Apparently they'll be able to get things they want, but that's all we really know about the prospect. If anything, it rings hollow compared to the promises in the motives.

[imnotfat]

It's possible the winner himself or herself isn't important. It could be that all of our deaths is what they want, for whatever reason.

[cyan_maid]

But why us specifically - not just this group, but the others too - and why have us do it to each other? If all of our deaths are the real goal, why bother with the game and the "experiment"?

[imnotfat]

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[He had kept this information as a secret because he didn't want any hysteria, but given Lady Consequence's existence and stuff...]

I'm only speaking based on what I know from the many killing games I have seen, but they have always been broadcasted to someone. The Hope's Peak game was shown to the world, so they could see 'the hope of humanity killing each other'. The Jabberwock game was broadcasted to me and my closest comrades as a way to lure us into a trap. Many other smaller unsuccessful games were broadcasted just to make us watch the bloodshed.

If this one is like the games from my world -- which it seems it is -- our deaths or survival is important in some way to someone, or to a group of people, or to an entire world.

[Also:]

This Lady Consequence individual knows what we're doing in real time, doesn't she? If she truly is on our side, then wherever she is definitely is receiving a broadcast from this place. The exact reason why it's being shown to her is unknown, but it could be the key to finding out why we're here.

[ratherdoweddings]

...Togami-san, do you think it's that person? The Champion we can't remember. The one who ran the meetings. Everything else is so clear, but not them. But if the last Champion is Lady Consequence, that would explain why we don't remember her!

[imnotfat]

That's a likely possibility. It'd give that person a reason to try to help us.

[ratherdoweddings]

We should keep it in mind. At least it gives us a reason to believe that our captors have more sway over our memories than we thought, and you're right that it's a valid reason she would have to know about us.

[cyan_maid]

...You think Lady Consequence is the Champion Mystery?

[ratherdoweddings]

It's only a theory, but who else would help us, and who else would be taunted with a broadcast if Togami-san is right?

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna's been listening and thinking for a while, and something about what Togami has said seems to help make things click.]

...I believe my group may have known what the purpose of all this was.

[ratherdoweddings]

Really? Why do you say "may," Arianna-chan?

[daughterofthemark]

Because I cannot recall what it was. But I also cannot recall us ever wondering about it, beyond our initial confusion when we arrived.

[burninglight]

...Arianna's right, now that I think on the matter. I have memories of talking to Kip several times, but I can't recall what we spoke about no matter how I might try. And I can't place a time when ever we contemplated the reasoning behind our being brought to the mansion.

[daughterofthemark]

It must be something we are not meant to know... but then why would we have known before? Unless the reason has changed.

[tokencanadian]

...Do you think that maybe something is blocking that memory?

[cyan_maid]

...Well...I have to admit, that's a sound point. After all, we are being filmed, that hasn't been made secret to us.

[Lol but who would really want to watch a bunch of strangers kill each other without bringing down the full force of the space cops]

[daughterofthemark]

Were you recorded in your previous "game?" I'm fairly certain that we, at least, were.

[cyan_maid]

I...think so? Yes - yes, there was a rule about not tampering with the security cameras.

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps, then, that was to be shown to someone as well.