Taking Responsibility.

[transmittable]

Despite the lack of a body this week, you've had more than enough to explore and investigate; some of it may have answered some questions, while the rest...well, the rest may have just raised more. However you feel about it, the fact remains that as soon as you all step out of that new section above the third and make your way back toward one of the primary hallways, the lights quite suddenly go out, casting the hospital into complete darkness. Several seconds pass before something seems to happen and what sound like backup generators kick back on; the lights struggle their way back to life, only to immediately flicker and die again. It happens twice more before the power seems to stay on for good - they're feeble, but they're on, and at least it's enough to see by. It seems the power is stronger in one place in particular, however, and it shouldn't be a surprise which it is; the courtroom remains just as illuminated as ever, the seats ringing the old operating theater remaining as starkly unoccupied as they always do, and the podium circle that awaits you seems to have been set up in its final configuration. Sakura Kashima's portrait has joined the ranks of the deceased, her podium draped in black cloth. A final reminder of all you've lost here. Perhaps it's upsetting. Perhaps it'll only serve to make you more determined. The public-address system remains eerily silent, even after you've found your places in the circle; once in a while the quiet is broken by soft bursts of static, by a heavy, electric-sounding humming noise. Occasionally, whispers can be heard; whatever they're saying, it's probably not for you. Regardless, however, one thing is obvious: this is the end of the line, wherever it may have taken you. Eight Patients remain. Good luck.

Comments

[georgeous]

Then that is our final question left... How did we come here? Which event enabled this?

[journalname]

It would make sense if it were more nuclear radiation. But I cannot imagine that we all independently encountered some...unless it can reach beyond worlds?

[georgeous]

I don't think that's it...

A third party must have gotten hold of us another way. The Risen cannot permanently revive anybody, yet some of us are dead.

It's something else.

[journalname]

As I have said, whatever power could have brought me back is entirely beyond my knowledge. My body had collapsed into dust.

[cthulwho]

[Hmm.]

George...didn't you say that the Chalkboard entity spoke of multiple games? And that the Risen did not create the game itself?

We hypothesized that the Transmitter may have been brought here to participate in a game as well, and that the Risen somehow tagged along, so perhaps...we should look at it that way.

[journalname]

Ah, that is true! If the Transmitter won her game, then...perhaps she, and the Risen by extension, inherited its trappings? Whatever brought them both here?

[cthulwho]

Yes. That could be so... We just have to determine what that is.

[georgeous]

Yes, agreed.

Transmitter was Submerged and the Risen were with here... She won and they negotiated something, likely running this game.

But how did the Transmitter get into another game? She said they followed her 'even here', so where did she go?

[cthulwho]

She...could have been brought to this same place. The entity told me that it has observed many games and...it was already aware of the sort of environment that the dead are in.

[dangerousfool]

...oh! Right. Let me think...

[Wheatley connects a few dots]

What if the Transmitter was taken to a game? And by then she already had the Risen in her? Then that Submerged title could be the Risen. And then they won the game and got everyone killed, and the reward they got was to be able to make these games?

Could that be right?

[georgeous]

And that, in turn, explains why they cannot disregard the Transmitter.

The reward is tied to her because she was the one who technically won the game, part of what earns them this price. Without her, the deal may fall flat?

[journalname]

They won -

[Asgore starts to say something, and then his jaw snaps shut with an audible click. It's several moments before he speaks again, claws digging into the sides of his podium.]

In the...recordings. She asked what they had made her do.

[arebetter]

... They used her to kill someone. At least one person. There's no Case 4 because they won.

[positivespin]

Yeah, that's the only explanation. She won, but it's tied to her--possibly tied to her body? So they need her body. That's why despite the whole...void progression thing, they want to pull her back when it gets too much.

[journalname]

Killing Wesker's body counted as a murder. It must be tied to the body, and not whatever was using it.

[georgeous]

And that's how she has so much weight with them - because she could take this thing away from them.

[journalname]

It is no wonder they were so upset when she refused to speak to them...

[After Sakura and Rin.]

The poor child.

[arebetter]

It's alright. We're gonna kick their asses.

[journalname]

They could not even let her keep the photos of her friends...

[arebetter]

Of her...

[ Oh. She takes out Photo 4. ]

... they didn't do whatever happened to this one, did they?

[journalname]

I do not expect so.

MODS

[arebetter]

That means... this one is probably important.

[ Hey... from what she can see, what are the two in this picture wearing? And do they recur in the other photos? ]

[cthulwho]

What was done to it, exactly...?

[He isn't sure if he ever got a good look at the photos themselves now that he thinks about it.]

[journalname]

It is torn, so that the face is gone.

[ossifragant]

[Oh god.]

That.... makes too much sense, doesn't it?

The poor girl.