The Final Trial

[parasomniacs]

The Final Trial ‹ Mastermind ›

The dream world that they enter is shrouded in darkness. What was always an everlasting night has now taken even the stars from them. The only light comes from small, floating torches that flicker. Through what little light they have to guide them, they can see a small familiar form waiting up ahead.  Coming closer, they can indeed tell that Sheepy is waiting.

Now more than ever it is important that they arm themselves with the evidence that they have collected regarding the mastermind behind all this. Because this is the only chance they'll ever get to present it. Though death has always been the risk, now it's all or nothing.

Sheepy waits for them all to join her before grinning.

"Well, well, well... here we all are. Not all that many of you left, are there? Ah-- but then... maybe there won't be any of you left after this. Keheheheheh!! So let's make the most out of this last little session, shall we? Think you have it all figured out? Well let's find out. Like you were told, you gotta name all the remaining gunmen as well as the mastermind. So. Let's begin."

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[parasomniacs]

You don't think you're already divided? They clearly have different goals then you do~

[parasomniacs]

Well if you won't identify them well... then you'd fail the test and be unable to leave the experiment.

At least... you wouldn't leave alive.

Are you all gonna die just for some people who would have killed you too if it came to it?

[scythegun]

Maybe, maybe not. I really don't think you're going to get anywhere trying to argue with us about this!

[devilsnight]

What're you planning on doing with them, anyway? Assuming that we all play nice. You gonna kill 'em?

[parasomniacs]

My personality hasn't changed. Perhaps you are the one who has changed.

It's a trial-- naturally that is where you go to uncover guilty parties, isn't it? And these are the guilty parties you need to convict. Otherwise you fail~

[spatial]

I won't deny that we have been, and I'd like everyone to go home, which is why I revealed myself. [ But, amazingly enough, she smiles. ] Do you know why we've been killing, Lady Sheepy?

[parasomniacs]

Hmmm... fair enough I guess. The choice is yours. But so is the price of failure. So think long and hard about it, whatever you choose~

[unlikelyend]

[ ... The amount of unimpressed Duke is impressive. ]

Hypothetically, if all the guilty parties are voted for, would you say that none of them would receive a punishment, then? And if they wouldn't, what would happen to them?

[ Not that he's going to vote for the gunners unless by some miracle something takes over his body and makes him, but he has to ask. ]

[scythegun]

Oh don't worry, I'm not going to fail.

But... I am a little curious, Sheepy... What exactly are you getting out of all of this?

[unlikelyend]

I see...

[ LONG PAUSE. ]

So the multiple 'button pressing' technique is not always successful.

LORE PUZZLE-PIECING

[respring]

[ After a short while, Sakura clears her throat and speaks up. She seems a little reluctant, since she's not the best with public speaking, but damn if she'll try. ]

Um...I think figuring out exactly what happened here is also important.

[ She shuffles through some of the papers in the evidence pile. ]

There's a lot of people involved, a group called "Ranarium", and some sort of clothing company.

[ Thinking for a minute. ]

It's a small guess, but I looked it up and saw that a "ranarium" is a place where frogs are bred. Didn't someone find a frog in the garage, today? There's...a big theme of frogs, here.

[scythegun]

Surprisingly, it isn't! And here I thought I had learned so much, too...

[s i g h we will never master technology]

[parasomniacs]

The guilty gunmen would be properly punished per the experiment. Then with the Mastermind uncovered, we would properly end the experiment and the rest of you would all go safely.

[parasomniacs]

...getting? I guess. The answer would be... data?

[Sheepy doesn't seem to understand-- or if she does, she doesn't seem to have an answer.]

My job is just to watch over you guys and relay data. That's all.

[parasomniacs]

Yes of course. The guilty gunman will be executed. Then the rest of you will all be free to go.

[scythegun]

Do you really enjoy that? It doesn't sound very interesting. But you always seem so lively when you're talking to us, so surely there's more than that...?

[scythegun]

[...]

And what happens if we get it wrong?

[vigilantims]

Yeah. It looked like one of those robots that they'd use in someone's execution. It was near some other equipment that also seemed to be execution items.

But... Aside from that were there anything else in relation to frogs around here? I think there's more evidence pointing to this clothing company.

[parasomniacs]

This is just the personality they gave me I guess. I never really thought about it a great deal.

[She is... what she is. Why think too hard about it?]

[anindomitablewill]

[ You know. This whole mess has been grating on his nerves slowly these past two months and it's pretty much what's showing now. ]

Don't you dare make this about me. Whether I changed or not is not relevant, you tasteless little beast. You're the one giving not only me but everyone else attitude that's a little hard to ignore and frankly, it's annoying.

[ A breath inhaled and then exhaled. No. He wasn't going to lose his cool much more than that, okay? ]

It should just be the mastermind we need to find and vote for. The other ones seem irrelevant and yet whether we live or die is hinged on that, but more importantly... what the hell do you intend to do with those guilty parties anyway?

[scythegun]

Hmm... Sheepy, why did you take over after Sandra died? Did they tell you to do that too?

[devilsnight]

[That...that makes him laugh a bit, actually. Quietly. Aggressively. It's not a nice sound.]

For all your fuckin' data, you're overlooking one fairly important thing, friend - that being that the idea has become the institution, and the idea is we're getting the fuck out of here by any means possible. All of us.

I'm not here to argue about the bonds of friendship and all that, because I think that's full of absolute shit. We can and will backstab each other, we've all done it before. Maybe we could be encouraged to do it again, but not by you.

Fuck you, and fuck your establishment. These people are my guys - some of them because they chose to be, some of them because they fuckin' earned it, some of them just on merit of not being you.

If we have to burn this entire fuckin' shitshow to the ground, then so be it. Fire it up. But we're gonna do that before we burn each other.

[unlikelyend]

All I have deduced is that Ranarium seems to be a group that is political in nature, so we can likely categorize it as a political group of some sort.

[ ... ]

Either way, I suppose that is where they happened to get their name from.

There was a name of interest regarding a company called Dressing, which may be the clothing company in question.

[parasomniacs]

[....Lady, huh?]

Not a clue.

[parasomniacs]

Yes. I was asked to look over you since Sandy couldn't do it anymore. Someone had to.