Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten

***Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten*** is the seventh installment of the series and served to continue the plot begun in the previous season. Gameplay wise, the Discord Danganronpa Bot received an update prior to this season which allowed doors and objects to be able to be locked. This season also continued the trend of including a cast of 18 players. For this season, anyone from past seasons were allowed to apply with no specifications.

## Synopsis

18 students have just been accepted to the brand new high school in its opening year, Rimoto Piozumu Academy, run by Rimoto Hakka. Directly after the induction ceremony, the 18 students who were accepted walk into the school and wake up in an town based on the wild west, where the killing game will begin.

## Gameplay

This season again employed the use of a bot made specifically for roleplays such as this one, made by UniqueImpact. This bot includes commands that allows players to move throughout rooms, check descriptions of items, put on clothes, lock doors, and pick up items to a virtual inventory. Click here for a full list of commands for the Discord Danganronpa Bot

Interacting with other players would still be done through the host, and any actions towards another player would be followed with a message in the room they are currently in asking them to react within a certain time frame to do something about said action if they would like to.

Following the last season, Plight of the Forgotten also used a relationship chart to keep track of the cast's feelings toward one another, linked here.

## Game Events

*(The events in-game take place in the lore from July 13th, 2020 to September 9th, 2020)*

### Chapter 1

The game began in an area outside in which everyone stood in front of a stage. From the stage emerged the mechanical robot Fukushu. Fukushu would announce the general rules of the killing game and released 18 keys, 6 to each of the buildings meant to serve as bedrooms for the group. It added an extra motive in the form of the natural heat in the desert area they were in, saying all of the water would be turned off until someone died.

A few days into the game, Jackie Dive was able to convince Slime Rimiro to kill Kitani Okura and then himself with a little bit of convincing. The plan would be that Jackie would get them alone in the outhouse, where Slime would kill Kitani. This plan worked perfectly and Slime did so following the plan. However, he began to feel guilty and killed himself as a result. Jackie would also tell Ayako Suzuki about what was meant to go down.

At the trial, due to them both knowing exactly what happened but refusing to say any exact details, the group began to get upset at the both of them. Despite this, the group would still correctly vote for Slime.

### Chapter 2

At the announcement for this chapter of the game, the players were immediately ambushed by a gas which removed their ability to feel happiness in any way. Fukushu would then tell them that they would be given the antidote at the next trial. The new areas also opened, which included a music room, an art room, a bar, and a locked room. The night of the announcement, Fukushu told everyone to meet at that locked room.

When they all gathered, Nathan Kabet (announced immediately to be an alt of the host) emerged from the room, claiming to have just woken up and did not know what was going on. This, however, was a cover story, as an excuse to put himself into the killing game.

After a few days, Ren Aiuchi decided to begin their murder plan and set up a trip wire at the entrance to the music room. Koroku Machimalus would be the one to walk into the trap and be attacked and knocked out after the fall. Once he was unconscious, Ren would shove him into a locker and form an iron maiden trap, further injuring and killing Koroku.

At the trial, there was a heated debate which ended in another of the participants, swearing off of the game, refusing to vote, and left the trial room (this person being Ferris McGrath). Despite this, though, the group would pin Ren as the killer with part help due to him showing signs of happiness before Fukushu announced everyone would have the effects of the poison removed. Ren was then be executed.

### Chapter 3

When everyone was called to the main clearing area, Fukushu announced that Ferris McGrath would be facing an execution right then, and was put on display for the rest of the alive players. For a motive, Fukushu said that every 24 hours that someone did not die, he would kill a loved one of a random person alive in the game. People received videos that showed the loved ones being gone from where they normally were in order to confirm this. There were no dead bodies shown as a result of this motive.

After a while, which included many loved ones passing, Shinpi Fukitsuna would eventually give in and plan out their murder on Akito Ito. Since Akito was a robot, Shinpi used water from the washrooms to fry the circuits, and then would drag Akito to the newly opened weight room, where his head would be smashed.

Though the trial went for a while, the group was eventually able to pin Shinpi down as the culprit and she was executed shortly after.

### Chapter 4

This chapter, rather jarringly, received an announcement that came over the speakers rather than in person. This was later revealed to make this killing game more like the one hosted by Nakata Yataro. The motive for this chapter was that the killer would be able to ask one question to Fukushu, and that question would be answered truthfully. In terms of new areas, there was a counselors office and a nurse's office, both being accessible by two different spiral staircases in the same building that was opened.

Still being partly affected by the previous motive, as well due to seeing his dog seemingly die, Dachi Maru began his murder plan on Isuma Tsutsumi. He would do this by killing Isuma independently and then place them in a position in the nurse's office so that the next person who walks in would be made to seem like they killed Isuma. The person who walked in would end up being Jackie Dive.

The night before the trial, Dachi asked Fukushu who was behind the killing game, to which he received the response: Nathan Kabet. Dachi wrote this on a page in his notebook after learning this. However, after Dachi fell asleep, Nathan snuck into his room and erased parts of his name and added new parts to instead spell out Nakata's name.

At the trial, many people suspected Jackie, but in the midst of all of the accusations, Dachi admitted that it was him. He told the group that the answer to his question was in his book under his pillow, and once they get out of the trial, they should all go look. Dachi was executed, and when the group looked at the book they saw Nakata's name in replace of Nathan's.

### Chapter 5

When it was time for the announcement, Fukushu began to speak on what the motive would be and then stopped speaking, claiming it will be more fun if it was a surprise, only giving the hint that something will happen every 3 days. The motive would be that every 3 days, everyone would receive a dream of something. The dreams would feature events such as the students losing the things they love as they crumble around them, being locked out of the academy despite any pleas to be let in, and the missing person posters being ignored by people walking by until they all go away.

During this motive, Nathan Kabet would accidentally give himself these dreams, where he would see himself and Nakata Yataro making it into the academy together as his deepest desire, which surprised him since he was the reason Nakata didn't make it into the academy in the first place. This would cause Nathan to think if he was right in what he did and would question his morals.

During this phase of the game, Marcelle Treillard would burn down the building that served as bedrooms for the entirety of the game in an attempt to kill Jackie Dive. This failed as the only accomplishment was the houses being burnt down with no one being injured. A few days after this, Jackie would instead kill Marcelle while everyone was asleep in the newly opened observatory, slipping in and out as an alibi.

At the trial, the group eventually realized that it was Jackie but a few people required more convincing because they could not imagine him killing Marcelle, mainly Ayako Suzuki. Jackie would eventually confess, though, and allowed the group to vote for him.

### Chapter 6

The announcement for this chapter came very abruptly, and as a motive, Fukushu very coldly told the group that if no one was dead in 72 hours, then everyone would be killed as a result.

During this phase of the game, using a string of numbers found throughout the game to this point, a couple of students were able to access a secret room.where they found a book that detailed the events of the first killing game (Danganronpa: Shallow Words), leaving out the part about who stopped the killing game and leaving a blank in that spot.

A day before the deadline, everyone would receive a note asking each person to meet in a different spot of the area. At each of these locations, Fukushu would be there and talk to these people. One of the notes, specifically to Ayako Suzuki, would serve a different purpose and would involve traveling to the secret room that included the book detailing the first killing game.

When Ayako would arrive, Nathan Kabet would be waiting, where Nathan would propose his plan to Ayako. He wanted to fight Ayako, making it so the winner would face the final trial before the game ended, and that if he won, he would make sure that everyone else made it out alive. Nathan told Ayako that he wanted to end the killing game and now realized that what he was doing wasn't right and he needed to face punishment for what he did. Nathan also said that if Ayako did accept this deal, Nathan would write in the book that Ayako was the one who stopped the first killing game and came to this one, not as a player, but to stop Nathan, unfortunately unsuccessfully. Ayako accepted and was killed by Nathan as Akira Hashiru walked into the room, all to Nathan's plan.

During the investigation phase of the chapter, some students would find evidence that the group they were in was not accepted into the academy and their memories were falsified, which would later be confirmed by Nathan. He explained that was why no one had come to find them, since they weren't important in the society that existed.

And at the trial, after attempting to lead the trial in his direction, the group still believed that Akira was the mastermind due to there being no evidence of Akira being in their application group. However, in response to this, Nathan would begin compiling evidence towards himself, telling the group to trust Akira. Nathan would break down yelling at the group to *"SEND THEM TO HELL"* when referring to the one who was the cause for the previous killing game and orchestrated the current one. Though they took a while to understand, they eventually saw that Nathan was asking them to vote him as the mastermind of the killing game, and did so.

### Post-Game

As the consensual execution for Nathan Kabet was about to begin as he revealed everything to those still alive, Fukushu dolls appeared and broke off the chain dragging him towards the execution. This was followed by Nakata Yataro, who said that Nathan was not allowed to die a death on his own accord, as that would be too easy for what he'd done. Nathan attempted to apologize to Nakata for everything he had done, from getting him kicked out of the academy to starting the second killing game. As Nakata beckoned for the survivors to leave, Nathan realized his apologies wouldn't do anything, and he prepared to fight Nakata.

Opal Petrovich, Akira Hashiru, Charlotte Dupont, Kazuoki Doko, Hironaka Haruka, and Garry Grater all made it outside successfully, and they walked away to the city in the distance to tell of what had happened. As they walked away, the town they had been trapped in began to blow up, destroying all of the buildings within it. They eventually made it to the city and the academy, where Opal would split off from the group and leave them. The other 5 would head to the academy and tell Takai Kado, the school counselor, about the killing game and what happened there.

Some days after this, a man and a woman would observe the wreckage of the killing game, looking for clues on Nathan and Nakata's whereabouts. They would pick something up from the bedrooms area, and would also uncover the security room that was left unharmed, finding something that has not yet been revealed.

## Cast

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## Trivia

* Opal Petrovich is commonly referred to as the protagonist of the season.
* Ayako Suzuki was not the planned Chapter 6 victim until Chapter 6, where they were given an actual choice by Nathan if they would accept the deal. Before this, Jackie Dive had offered out of character to be the Chapter 6 victim before they became the Chapter 5 killer.
* Nathan was created to be the "so obvious it's not obvious" mastermind of the season, which worked very effectively.
* This season had a total of 30 applications.