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The elevator doors slide open at the end of the allotted time for investigating, and the ride down is quick-paced and smooth; there's a lot more space in here than there was at the start of the game, that much is obvious.

But then, perhaps that's to be expected with almost a third of your original number dead.

The doors slide open when the courtroom is reached, the podium circle waiting as always in the middle of what still seems to be an endless dark void; Yato, Taichi and Megumi have joined the ranks of the dead, their podiums draped in black, greyscale portraits set upon them. Watching the proceedings.

And as always, they aren't the only ones watching.

The Kingmaker waits until everyone is settled at their podiums to begin speaking; it's still impossible to tell where his voice is coming from – other than, perhaps, 'everywhere.'

"Protective has been taken from you. Looks like the guilty thought their secret was worth more than her life... Or maybe they just wanted out and decided to be the one to succeed at Rule Seven where everyone else has failed. Whether they succeed or not is up to you."

Nineteen Survivors remain. How many are still alive at the end of the day is your decision.

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[Oh. Ah.

...also thank you, Sigrun, for being so helpfully informative.]

Its a... website. [Brief pause as he realizes quickly that Norman probably doesn't know what 'website' even means. Or 'internet', for that matter. ...Bruce also doesn't use Facebook at all so this is going to go well.]

Its sort of a thing where people use to talk to each other and share things like pictures and audio. [That's... close enough right.]

...I'll try to explain it better after this.

[This probably requires diagrams and a better explanation when they're not busy solving a murder.]

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[listens... accepts this entirely. because what else can he do.]

Well, as long as they're, um, not real faces.

I can most definitely assure you no real faces are involved.

[You know, he was also in the "fuck's a Facebook" boat until-]

...Oh, it's social media! It's like UnderNet.

[GOD HE SOUNDS SO PROUD OF HIMSELF he gets this reference though c: ]

[...]

What's social media?

[THIS IS WHY BRUCE IS REFRAINING FROM USING 'SOCIAL MEDIA'.

Also the fact that he's no as up to date as well.]

...I'll explain that later, too.

Okay. I guess.

Oh, darling, you'd love it! You take a device similar to the one the Kingmaker gave us and use it to write things, only the whole world - or at least everyone in the world with another one of those devices - can see what you're writing. You can post pictures too!

Basically, you can tell the whole world how great you are. As much as you want! And post photographs proving it. If you're good at it, everyone will know who you are and about your glory.

[holy shit someone who actually explained it

this is why she loves you???]

You are so easy to understand, sweetheart. So it really does have nothing to do with spiders? Because honestly, not too fond of them.

...It doesn't, but you've made me realize that I need to find some way to tell Muffet to get a phone after all of this is over.

[SO MANY BAKE SALES yet her advertising is so basic

who the fuck uses posters anymore]

[mettaton you have a poster with your face on it]

... Is Muffet a spider?

[it's different if it doubles as merchandise]

She is! She's adorable, though, you'd love her.

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[WELL AT LEAST METTATON KNOWS HOW TO PANDER TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

THANKS

HE GUESSES.]

[IT'S ALL PART OF HIS JOB, DARLING, HE'S GOT THIS]

...A website.

Sounds like it's a pain to get to.

[Look, Gabriel is used to dial-up where you spend five minutes listening to the thing trying to connect.]

Internet-related technology is very different in 2010 compared to your time.

[But thank god at least Gabriel knows what internet is.]

I don't suppose much of this is important to the current case at hand?

[said the confused man from the 1800s]

...no, it isn't.

[THEY SHOULD

GET BACK ON TOPIC, YES.]

We're learning a lot of things about people, fluffy. It's important to know who uses "social media" and who legitimately would put your face in a book.

There's plenty of those second ones. [ ............ he should clarify-- ]

Pictures, that is. Pictures of faces. Like yearbooks.

[........... why.... is everyone sayin things...]

Books that last for a year? All the ones I've collected have lasted like, a hundred. Mostly. If they weren't damaged.

[ n....n........... ]

They're just a record, sort of, of what's happened over the school year. And you get them yearly for extraordinarily expensive prices.

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Ohhhh. So it's a digital book full of your face. Facebook. Okay.

[That. That makes sense, it'd been bothering him.]

...I mean, you're technically not wrong, I guess. There's an album function on the site and tons of people upload their faces so people can tell them how cute they look. [ SO... TECHNICALLY... ] But it's used for a lot more than that--

this isn't really important right now.

Only reason I would think for putting a face in a book is if you're cross with someone.