[ A little before lunch, Nagisa will ask everyone to meet up in the Julys food court. He'll wait a bit so that everyone has time to grab some food, then stand up in front of everyone.
...It's a little unnerving how easily they all fit around these few tables now after how many they started with. ]
Thanks for coming. There are a few things I wanted to address this week.
The main one is what we know about the possibilities for ending the game, specifically with regard to the previous round. When I'd spoken with the Cat about it previously, she'd told me that all thirty-one of the participants in that round had been "disqualified" because so many of them had broken rules. Having found out more about that round's cases since then, though, it looked like they'd only actually had one death resulting from a broken rule in the first eleven weeks, so that didn't seem to add up.
I asked her about this more recently and was told that everyone in that round had been disqualified because the remaining participants toward the end had taken what she called a "forbidden action" -- meaning the actions of a few resulted in condemnation for everyone, including victims of earlier cases who hadn't done anything wrong and had no say in the actions of the living at that point.
The two possible conditions she gave for ending the game and reviving the participants via the Queen's Glass Game are --
One: having someone get away with a murder, as we've been told since the beginning; or, two: someone taking this "forbidden action." However, if a majority of the living participants are involved in that action, then everyone both living and dead will be disqualified.
Given what she said about Sakuraba's attempt to kill the Queen at last week's trial, and that porcelain dust that Uno found by the damaged elevator door before, I think it's probably safe to assume that the murder of the Queen is the forbidden action. ...So in actuality, everyone in our group who attempted to attack her may have been on the right track, looking at the big picture. Anyone who succeeded on their own would be disqualified, but everyone else would supposedly be brought back and the game would be over.
With that in mind, I need it to be clear to everyone that teaming up to take her down is quite possibly the worst course of action we could take. I can't in good conscience encourage attempts to act as a lone martyr, given how miserably every such attempt has failed so far, but if one were to actually succeed... that would likely be in everyone else's best interest.
[ So. He won't necessarily try to hold them back from trying anymore, either. ]
The other thing I wanted to address is this week's motive, for anyone who may have been tempted either last week or now. We know that the Queen, who was dead before this, is only able to exist in this world. For that reason, I would suspect that if the Cat were to bring someone any of us knew back from the dead, they may also be confined to this world. You'll note that they didn't specify that these reunions with our lost things would actually take place in our own worlds. This restriction may not apply to missing objects or living people, but I would hope that no one would take such a risk for something like that.
Anyway... sorry for going on for so long. As always, please share your thoughts and any findings of your own.
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...It's a little unnerving how easily they all fit around these few tables now after how many they started with. ]
Thanks for coming. There are a few things I wanted to address this week.
The main one is what we know about the possibilities for ending the game, specifically with regard to the previous round. When I'd spoken with the Cat about it previously, she'd told me that all thirty-one of the participants in that round had been "disqualified" because so many of them had broken rules. Having found out more about that round's cases since then, though, it looked like they'd only actually had one death resulting from a broken rule in the first eleven weeks, so that didn't seem to add up.
I asked her about this more recently and was told that everyone in that round had been disqualified because the remaining participants toward the end had taken what she called a "forbidden action" -- meaning the actions of a few resulted in condemnation for everyone, including victims of earlier cases who hadn't done anything wrong and had no say in the actions of the living at that point.
The two possible conditions she gave for ending the game and reviving the participants via the Queen's Glass Game are --
One: having someone get away with a murder, as we've been told since the beginning; or, two: someone taking this "forbidden action." However, if a majority of the living participants are involved in that action, then everyone both living and dead will be disqualified.
Given what she said about Sakuraba's attempt to kill the Queen at last week's trial, and that porcelain dust that Uno found by the damaged elevator door before, I think it's probably safe to assume that the murder of the Queen is the forbidden action. ...So in actuality, everyone in our group who attempted to attack her may have been on the right track, looking at the big picture. Anyone who succeeded on their own would be disqualified, but everyone else would supposedly be brought back and the game would be over.
With that in mind, I need it to be clear to everyone that teaming up to take her down is quite possibly the worst course of action we could take. I can't in good conscience encourage attempts to act as a lone martyr, given how miserably every such attempt has failed so far, but if one were to actually succeed... that would likely be in everyone else's best interest.
[ So. He won't necessarily try to hold them back from trying anymore, either. ]
The other thing I wanted to address is this week's motive, for anyone who may have been tempted either last week or now. We know that the Queen, who was dead before this, is only able to exist in this world. For that reason, I would suspect that if the Cat were to bring someone any of us knew back from the dead, they may also be confined to this world. You'll note that they didn't specify that these reunions with our lost things would actually take place in our own worlds. This restriction may not apply to missing objects or living people, but I would hope that no one would take such a risk for something like that.
Anyway... sorry for going on for so long. As always, please share your thoughts and any findings of your own.