Danganronpa: Shallow Words

***Danganronpa: Shallow Words*** is the sixth installment of the series, and marks the beginning of a new story that takes place in a new universe than the first five seasons. This season did not include any new features gameplay wise and still used the Discord Danganronpa Bot with the same features, but there were 18 players as opposed to the normal 16 per season. For this season, anyone was allowed to apply regardless of involvement in any past seasons.

## Synopsis

18 Students have just been accepted to the brand new high school, Rimoto Piozumu Academy, run by Rimoto Hakka, the eccentric billionaire. Directly after the induction ceremony, the 18 students who were accepted walk into the school and wake up in a school-like environment with no exit, 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, and pick up items to a virtual inventory. Click here for a full list of commands for the Discord Danganronpa Bot.

To interact 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.

This season would bring back the mechanic known as Report Cards, and is the second season to utilize them. With Report Cards, every player would have a report card which held information about them such as exact appearance, likes, dislikes, ultimate talent, and name. These could be given to other players at the owner of the report cards discretion.

As well, Shallow Words was the first season to use relationship charts, a way for the cast to show and keep track of their relationships with other characters. The chart is linked here.

## Game Events

*(The events in-game take place in the lore from March 15th, 2020 to April 23rd, 2020)*

### Chapter 1

The students woke up in an unfamiliar place. After a few hours, an announcement was called over the intercoms for them to come to the gym, where a white and gray wolf-like robot announced the killing game to the students, also claiming to be the new headmaster of the academy, and ignored any questions about Rimoto Hakka. The killing game followed the same rules as normal Danganronpa. The wolf also told the group that the only room which holds food, the storage room, will be locked until someone kills.

After the announcement, Reina Zukuuya offered to kill themselves for the good of the group multiple times, but found themselves unable to do so at every turn. After a few days, Wren Claiborne would eventually give in to the killing game and kill Joltz Jones in the kitchen in the oven. Upon hearing this news, Reina would feel much guilt for not killing themselves sooner to save Joltz's life and would commit suicide shortly after.

At the trial, though the timing of certain events was hard to track down initially, Wren was eventually voted as the killer by the majority and was executed.

### Chapter 2

When the second announcement rang, Fukushu said that, as a reward, they would be able to access a new area, but under a special set of rules. In total, there were 4 rooms that were opened: the greenhouse, the infirmary, the science lab, and the art room. There would be 4 key cards for each of these rooms, and they could only enter one of the new rooms with one of these cards on their person and they could not let anyone in with their card.

This new area, with its limited access, served as the 'motive' for the chapter, though not very motivating. Eventually, though, North Jishin would use this opportunity to kill someone in one of these rooms and quickly change keycards after doing so. Dewa Hidemichi was the eventual victim of this.

At the trial, North was outed as the killer and sentenced to execution.

### Chapter 3

Because of the number of players in the game if it had not been done, the chapter after Chapter 3 was instead called Chapter 3B instead of Chapter 4. This became especially useful when the story between the two chapters became as interconnected as they were.

#### A

With the announcement of this chapter came the unveiling of a new floor that allowed access to a pool and four classrooms, each for a different subject. For the motive for this chapter, Fukushu would announce that every hour, the temperature will decrease continuously.

After a few days of everyone enduring this, one of the students who was a robot, Aui Nakatomi, would take her own life in front of two other students, Doctor (Zikona Syuka) and Kyou Kato, by falling into the pool.

Doctor was heavily hurt by this and kept denying the fact that Aui killed herself even at the trial, though the group eventually saw through their warped reality of Kyou committing the crime.

#### B

After the Aui trial, Fukushu announced that a new area would not be opened, and instead, during this stage of the game, the students would input suggestions as to what should be in the new area. It was also said that everyone would receive a personalized motive which was not able to be shared between anyone. This motive, however, was the same for everyone: if they got away with murder, they could leave with one person of their choice.

Not long after this, still comprehending the death of Aui Nakatomi, Doctor (Zikona Syuka) would kill Riku Kobayashi. After doing so, Doctor would ditch the cloak that normally covered their whole body and try and fake their own death by hiding in the rafters of the gym.

Halfway through the trial, Doctor appeared no longer in disguise and stood as Zikona, where they were pressured into confessing the murder, but they never did. Despite that, the group came together and voted for Zikona, executing them.

### Chapter 4

This announcement came in a different form than the rest and was instead delivered entirely over the intercoms as opposed to in person. The hallway that the students gave suggestions for opened up, which included a theater, workout room, trophy room, and a bar. As a motive, Fukushu says that whoever kills, whether convicted or not, will get to learn the motives behind the killing game and why they in particular were selected.

Thanks to a suggestion during the previous stage of the game, a pool party was thrown courtesy of Fukushu after a few students brought it up. It was during this party that Ghost would begin his murder plot (on no target in particular) where he would set up a trap in the elevator. Kyou Kato would walk in on the trap and make it out alive, though the trap was put back together and killed the next person who walked into the elevator (being Mike Zeal).

At the trial, after the mystery had been thoroughly been solved by everyone, Ghost admitted what he had done, and when Fukushu offered to tell him the meaning of the game, he refused, saying he didn't want to know. He was then executed.

### Chapter 5

For this stage of the game, the third floor of the building was opened to be explored. Fukushu also told all of the alive participants as to why no one had gone to find them yet - there were robots created to take their place in society, coded with their exact personalities.

At the beginning of this chapter, using a code he had found hidden around the school, Kyou Kato was able to make his way into the library, which had been locked to everyone else, and was even a mystery to Fukushu as to why no one could enter. Inside, Kyou was able to meet Miya Katumi, someone who claims to be from The Ultimate Coalition of the academy (the group that runs the school along with Rimoto Hakka) who said that she was here after seeing weird power spikes from a building the academy owned. After being informed of the situation from Kyou, Miya began working on a way to stop the game.

However, not long after this, Kyou would begin his murder plan and beheaded Alexander Phonaz in the gym. During the investigation, more of the students would meet Miya and learn of how she planned to help everyone, but she refused to elaborate further, simply saying she had to make it so she did not have to hide anymore; otherwise, she would face danger from Fukushu.

At the trial, Kyou would never admit that he committed the crime until the votes were cast and the result was in his majority. He was then executed.

### Chapter 6

When the announcement rang, the students noticed something was off as soon as Fukushu said 7 players were remaining when there were only 6. It became more strange when Fukushu said that as a motive, this would be the final trial, and after the trial ended, everyone alive would be allowed to leave. They pretty quickly realize that Miya Katumi had listed herself as a participant in the game so that she can walk around the school without hiding to form a better plan.

After a few days, the one who organized the killing game itself, Nakata Yataro, hatched a plan to kill Miya for doing this. He would also avoid Miya at all costs since he knew that if she saw him, she would know immediately that this was his doing. By putting poison into her favorite drink at the bar, Nakata was able to weaken Miya, someone who was otherwise very formidable in combat so that he would be able to stab her. He also wore a brown cloak in case anyone did see him, which Sankara Nobakku did. This also created a reason for everyone to be scrambling around the school at the time of the murder.

At the trial, the students narrowed down that the suspect had not been admitted into the academy for one reason or another. After Nakata was questioned heavily, he would accidentally admit to this being him when he claimed *"It's happening all over again... none of you believe I got in..."*. He begged the students to vote for Motoki Maekawa, who he kept saying was the one who truly did not make it into the academy. However, the majority of the votes went in favor of Nakata. After that, he revealed his motivations and why he began the killing game.

Nakata had originally been accepted into the academy, but due to actions by Nathan Kabet (at the time of hosting, this name was replaced with ??? as to not spoil the future plot), he was kicked out and Motoki, the next highest ranking applicant, was accepted instead. And so months after this took place, Nakata would kidnap his former class and give them false memories of Nakata, making it into the school instead of Nathan. As Nakata spoke about his hatred for Nathan, he hit a button on his bracelet and a chair with cut ropes is revealed to be behind the throne in the trial room.

Nakata becomes panicked that Nathan escaped after being forced to watch the whole killing game. Nathan appeared, standing above the throne, in the bloody cloak that Nakata wore to kill Miya.

### Post-Game

Nathan Kabet said that it is time for Nakata Yataro's execution, and ushers for the 5 remaining students, Sankara Nobakku, Theodore R Wyvern, Motoki Maekawa, Rei Kimura, and Asuri Torena to leave before the fight begins. Despite Nakata begging them not to leave, they all listen and leave the building. Outside, the five could see a city in the distance and began heading towards it as they heard screaming come from the building they had just left.

When they arrive at the city, they find the Rimoto Piozumu Academy building and meet Takai Kado, who none of them seem to remember. He re-introduces himself as the school counselor and member of The Ultimate Coalition. He listened to what they have to say and promised to them that he will correct as much as he can, starting with finding the robots that have stolen their lives.

## Cast

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## Trivia

* Sankara Nobakku is commonly referred to as the protagonist of the season.
* This was the first season that photos were required for all characters upon signing up for the game.
* This is the first season to feature 7 total class trials.
* Nakata Yataro was played by an IRL friend of Remotes, but on certain occasions Remote would take control of the account such as the sixth trial.
* This season had a total of 34 applications.