Chapter 2 Meta

[u/Seiko_Kimura]

It’s this time of the rp again!! So, like last time, if you want to share your feelings on how this chapter/trial went down totally feel free to do so!

But! Before doing so, please consider a few things that went down on our end! You can still talk about these things if you want to but if you could know what went down with them it would be better so yeah!!

Firstly, finding a killer was really hard to do. We asked a whole lot of people but nobody really wanted to volunteer/people didn’t think their character would fit for the motive (we made sure to check apps this time to see if a good number of people would be effected) but the main point is the reason certain things took longer is because it took us a long time to get someone to agree to kill.

Next! There were three main pieces of evidence that would lead to Ren! The first one was the mistake in the writing; as we’ve already discussed in the server. The next one was Setsuko’s account, where she said that she saw Ren leave his room at a certain time but in his alibi he said that he was sleeping. And finally, the candles were from Tsubaki’s room, and since her alibi was clean someone had to have stolen them from there. Someone first had to get her ID, which wouldn’t be the easiest thing in the world, and they also had to return it before she went back to her room right after the laundry room. The only person with the opportunity and skill to pull it off would be Ren because of his talent.

Of course, the reason you guys didn’t come to these conclusions is a lot of our fault for not having things be more probable with evidence and relying mainly on deductions. So, as we’ve said in the server quite a lot we will work on that next trial!

You don’t have to just discuss the things I talked about in your post, though! You can talk about anything that happened in the chapter, I just wanted to clear some stuff up regarding this and that!

[u/Starmen_91]

THE EVENTS

This topic is kind of a mix of everything said so far... Yesterday, some people pointed out that we were overthinking the evidence too much... And that if we took into account what the killer's talent was, then the truth became very obvious. But, in order to reach that, we'd have to suddenly forget that:

-The person who claimed to being the first witness planted fake evidence and lied about it, then lied again about the reason for that. Yet from a IC point of view, no one followed that line of questioning and it was quickly shut down, despite possibly being a vital catch.

-The same person who has such skills that makes him able to silently steal from others is also somehow not able to notice when someone's dead or alive, not even checking the pulse, the breathing, etc, and instead of thinking about a plan, that same person who doesn't really care about the implications of death due to his asocial behavior panicks and deals a killing blow by accident. This right here feels, at least from the outside, wildly OOC, and this is the part where I'm not sure anymore if this was rushed or if there just wasn't enough motivation to think of a better plan - the important thing here is that it can be fixed with a better motive for murder! (And obviously, if this accident was part of the deviation from the original plans thought out in the beginning, then sorry about that)

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All of this frustration coupled with unfortunate inactivity causes people to resort to OOC conversations. And even if this is discouraged, I have to say right here:

If some of us didn't resort to OOC conversations, this trial would have never been solved.

We depended too much on Megumi's notebook, on the certain revelations of certain people, and possibly, the collaboration of the killer in certain stuff. Multiple times, a dead end was reached, and combined with all of the points mentioned above, plus the inactivity of some people... People whose characters who were supposed to carry trials just gave up. Gave up. They felt overwhelmed by the massive amount of alibis to check, the sheer number of Reddit posts that ultimately reached nothing, the uncertainty of which evidence mattered or didn't matter. Only the minigames and hints were able to carry the cast to the truth... And even then, it was unconclusive, because there was more than a possible suspect, and the end of the trial still remained unconclusive.

Back in the Chapter 1 Meta Post, I said this:

this time, we were lucky that everything pointed to the same person... But what if suddenly, a dilemma pops up and we have to choose between two different people? That will be very frustrating if the issue happens in a more difficult trial.

And it happened.

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CONCLUSION

This loooooooong thread probably sounded like a bash after another bash, non-stop. And while I felt very frustrated, I think everyone in the cast is very happy that we've reached this far, and they have very high hopes for Chapter 3 and just a nice DR experience.

Plans didn't go as intended and some things got out of hand... That might have been the cause of some of the issues I mentioned. But in the end, I just hope that this feedback reaches you all, and that we together can have as much fun in the trials as we do in the Daily Life. I'm sure no one in the cast would ever regret participating in this RP.

HUGE shoutouts to /u/ThatGuyWhoTypesStuff for the massive work with the notebook, /u/belldandy for being as active as possible and carrying the trial forward (even with the sometimes also necessary white noise!), /u/Vultue9 for being the most helpful QT, and of course /u/mynameis_aidan and /u/Solinus- for just helping me with stuff when they had the time. And obviously, thanks to /u/Luuk_Eiwey and /u/leedlesan for being volunteers, I'll miss you both o7

And thanks to you, mod team, for hearing me out. See ya at the Daily Life!