[...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/15.png#sprite) [Chiaki?](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/15.png#sprite) Can we talk? Mahiru and Hajime are here too. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/06.png#sprite) think... I think it's too much for me to handle, guys... [It's](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/15.png#sprite) like my memory drive of a mind is going overload... there's too many files. It's glitching. [Usually](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/13.png#sprite) when this kind of thing happens, you just reset, I think... And, maybe, that's what they were doing... I, I feel like I might need that too. Or I'm gonna get a blue screen. That's how I feel. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hajime/19.png#sprite) understand, Chiaki... it's overwhelming. Too much info. It's hard to know what to think of it. [We](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/mahiru/17.png#sprite) just have to get together and put everything into place, organize everything, right? If it's too much info, maybe we can try to take each memory once at a time? [No,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/06.png#sprite) I think it's more complicated. Listen... [Believing](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/19.png#sprite) in people is not just believing... That's just a lie. [I've](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/13.png#sprite) always known that... in this kinda situation, the way to really believe someone is to overcome doubt first. [So,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/06.png#sprite) that's how it goes, right? If you think someone did something bad, and they tell you they didn't do it, you have to go through what makes it seem like they are guilty... [And](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/19.png#sprite) when you finally understand *why* they can't be bad, that's when you can have faith in them. [That's](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/13.png#sprite) how my mind operates things, I think. If it shows me an object A, I need to understand why it's not.... um, B. I guess. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/07.png#sprite) wonder if that makes sense... [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/08.png#sprite) think I'm seeing your point of view... [My](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/15.png#sprite) mind is telling... I should believe it's object A. But, that object looks like object B. It moves like Object B. Its stats are of Object B's. Then... what? [Can](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/19.png#sprite) my system ignore this evidence and still imagine it as Object A? [That's](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/06.png#sprite) just... a lie. It's blind faith. [Chiaki,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/04.png#sprite) I'm sure that if we look at our past, you're gonna see more evidence pointing at your friends being good rather than not. [Think](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/08.png#sprite) of Hajime, for example, he might've done some bad things in the past... but he also helped solve cases in countless other pasts. For every wrong, there's ten rights. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/07.png#sprite) dunno the exact terminology for it, but... I imagine that if an object happens to act in a weird sorta way, but acts normally most of the time, you have to analyse the circumstances rather than the object itself. Right? [But...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/mahiru/06.png#sprite) then, we need to decide what's 'act normally'. And for that, like I said earlier, we need to go through this with each other. [Like,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hajime/01.png#sprite) group therapy sessions? [That](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hajime/09.png#sprite) might work actually! It's gonna give us something to do and talk about. A place where we can vent our feelings and hear each other! [Let](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hajime/00.png#sprite) us prove that we're worth of overcoming doubt and being friends. So, what do you think, Chiaki? [...Okay.](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/chiaki/04.png#sprite) I wanna do it. Thanks, guys. *The next day, the students reunite at the Hotel Lobby to discuss matters, as they'd planned to.* [If](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/01.png#sprite) you have the slightest hope of me attending these 'Group therapy sessions' where we hold hands and pretend to be friends, you have to give me the right to establish some ground rules. [Here](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/fuyuhiko/02.png#sprite) it comes... it better not be something like making us brew you tea every morning or some shit like that. [No,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/02.png#sprite) but you make a wonderful suggestion. [First.](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/07.png#sprite) no more parties. Ever. There's a clear indication that it brings bad luck to whoever's present. [Two,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/06.png#sprite) this should be obvious, but do not follow any kind of notes telling you to go somewhere. If you find a note of any kind, leave it at this hotel's message board to be public to everyone. [Three.](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/14.png#sprite) leave cooking to Monomi. It's revolting to think of the many things you've eaten before. [Alwighty!](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monomi/18.png#sprite) I'll do my best to cook the pewfect food for my dear students! [Ibuki](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/ibuki/02.png#sprite) agrees that too many of Ibuki's parties have been ruined in the past by dead bodies... Kinda awkward. Do you just like edgy and bloody parties more? Ibuki can do something like that maybe, tomorrow? [Have](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/03.png#sprite) your lost your hearing? I said no. No. Parties. [Mhm,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/celes/07.png#sprite) I do not believe I see anything wrong with these rules. They are not too incisive, perhaps too generic, but seem to address some pertinent issues. [Well,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/celes/03.png#sprite) then. If we're ready to start the session, I'd like to start a retelling of that one trial I won against you all. It just can't seem to want to leave my mind. *When Celeste finishes her turn, everyone gets a chance to talk and speak their mind as well. At first, the conversation is rough, but the rhythm picks up as people open up. Newfound friendships and traumas, the things they wanna try again, and those they want to avoid doing the most.* *In a world where these students actually discuss their troubles and try to navigate them through dialogue with their peers, what can stop them?* *A few days pass.* *A motive about revealing their darkest secret doesn't work. They've already seen the worst in each other.* *A month passes. Threatening their loved ones is not gonna stick. Lowering the temperature and raising it at alternate times is easy to handle with swimming pools, blankets and people to hug. Two months pass.* [Gggrrrrr...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/02.png#sprite) Just you see, I'll get you! I'll find something that you can't get help with! [The](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/nagito/02.png#sprite) Ultimates have gone through so much... it seems like the scenario is perfect to nurture the brightest hope ever. If I push things just a little bit further... [But,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/nagito/01.png#sprite) I can't be too greedy. Right, guys? [Well,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/mahiru/16.png#sprite) we're glad you're being honest, at least... [...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hiyoko/03.png#sprite) N is for 'Noonewantstohelpyouwithamurderplanweirdo'. *Four months pass. Monokuma has tried motive after motive. Our ultimates find a way to group together and defeat him everytime.* [MRrraaaaah!!!](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/05.png#sprite) I'm banning therapy! Therapy is banned, forever! [Man,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/yasuhiro/11.png#sprite) I'unno, I feel like I've connected with my pal Makoto at a deeper level, that just spending time together is good enough for therapy, yannou? [...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/00.png#sprite) [Storyteller...if](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/gundham/15.png#sprite) you are finding yourself unable to verbalize these satanic visions from our past; do not forget that you can transcribe them to parchments so we may benefit from their wisdom at a later hour. [You're...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/touko/03.png#sprite) r-right.... [Why](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/01.png#sprite) is this not workinnnnnggggghhh??!!??!? Stop smiling at each other like you know what the other is feeling! It's so gross, I'm gonna puke! The next time someone smiles, they're getting punished!!! [Is](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/celes/03.png#sprite) something wrong, Monokuma? [You](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/02.png#sprite) cannot punish all of us, can you? That'd defeat the whole purpose of this killing game. [Stop](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/05.png#sprite) smiling!!!!!! *Six months after they first arrived here, Monokuma tried locking all the food away until someone committed murder. [We](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/kazuichi/12.png#sprite) just have to resist... we just have to resist... no food, no food, no food... no water, no food... [Waaaaaah!!!](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/kazuichi/13.png#sprite) Just give up, Monokuma!!! You're gonna have to kill us all before we kill someone! [Even](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/05.png#sprite) Nagito and Togami and Celeste and Sayaka and youuuu, Kazuichi?!!!! At least one of you should have done the deed by now!!! Whaddaya mean you're willing to die for the sake of the others here?!!! You haven't forgotten Yasuhiro is here, have youuuu?? [We](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/15.png#sprite) promised each other, M-monokuma... *cough* No killings. Ever again. [It's](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/byakuya/06.png#sprite) a... *cough* ...a matter of honor, at this point. I have put my dignity in line, to never give the chance for you to put me in a world where my name is dirtied. [Are](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/celes/15.png#sprite) you just gonna let all of us die, Monokuma? Surely.... t-that's against how you're coded, right? [What](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/01.png#sprite) about you, Hajime? The next time Chiaki faints from hunger... she might never wake up again. Are you letting that happen? That's on your hands, you little bastard. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hajime/05.png#sprite) know she can power through this, like everyone... [And](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/hajime/04.png#sprite) if anything happens to any of us, it's on you, Monokuma! It's in the rules, you cannot punish anyone who hasn't gone against a rule! [GrraywaaaaaaaaaAaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/05.png#sprite) *Monokuma's motives fail one after another, as our students manage to push through no matter what he throws against them. There's always a way. Always a plan. He even tried to Despair Diseases again, all kinds of them, but there's always a plan when you have your friends. They reach the eight months mark.* [Glad](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/fuyuhiko/01.png#sprite) you're back to normal, bro. It was really hard seeing you acting so freaky. [The](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/gundham/18.png#sprite) Four Dark Devas come together to thank you personally for not giving up on the overlord who had forgotten his name. [.......Thank](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/gundham/03.png#sprite) you, Fuyuhiko. [Don't](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/fuyuhiko/20.png#sprite) mention it. We're in this shit together. [...](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/08.png#sprite) [...I'm](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/08.png#sprite) retiring. I've run out of ideas to make you bastards kill each other. [YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/ibuki/08.png#sprite) WE WOOOOON, WE WOOOOON, WE WOOOON!!! [Wait,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/sonia/16.png#sprite) really? No more motives??? Forever??? [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/19.png#sprite) tried everything! Everything! What did you think was gonna happen??? [Congatwulations,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monomi/18.png#sprite) my dear students! You've defeated the big bad!! [Bore](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/monokuma/08.png#sprite) yourselves to death. Bye. *And so, a whole year has passed. Four months without Monokuma showing up even once. Just them, for themselves, and Monomi.* [Oh,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/07.png#sprite) yeah, I remember that confession... [Dude,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/fuyuhiko/01.png#sprite) I swear, I seriously don't even remember what was going in my head at that time, I think I was just frustrated or whatever. [Well,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/00.png#sprite) I think it's good that you can connect with me through the fact that we both have annoying younger sisters... [That's](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/fuyuhiko/07.png#sprite) a fucking good way to see it, Naegi. Man, there are just so many things I could've done better. [Well,](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/fuyuhiko/14.png#sprite) it's pointless to think about that now... [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/kazuichi/11.png#sprite) dunno... a part of me... thinks it was actually kinda fun. Rallying up together with everyone against a big bad. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/yasuhiro/23.png#sprite) ain't judgin'. I ain't judgin'. [I'm](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/kazuichi/07.png#sprite) not sayin' I want it back, dude! But I'm tellin' ya, it wasn't all bad. [I](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/04.png#sprite) can sorta see it... It's a good feeling to overcome difficulties. But, this is it, Kaz, this is our happy ending. [Let's](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/makoto/15.png#sprite) work together to maintain it! [Heck](https://ik.imagekit.io/drrp/sprites/kazuichi/01.png#sprite) yeah, man! *A happy ending.* ----- Hey Hey Everyone. Lance here stealing the attention away from Mako's preview for a second. Don't tell him i'm moving in on his territory though or he'll cry and he's an ugly crier. Like really bad. Speaking of crying, in the interest of trying to make sign ups as painless as possible for everyone I figured I'd provide some details about what to expect. - Sign ups are at 10:00 PM UTC-0 on 17 January 2023. - The input fields will be your reddit username (/u/ included), discord username (discriminator number included), your top character choice, and then your 3 backup choices. For character names we will take last names or first names so long as it's obvious who you're asking for. Host's choice is also a viable choice and can be inputted as HC. Good luck and we hope to see you at sign ups or you're all dead to us! Wuv wuv ❤️