Episode 2

## Episode II

**Future Foundation Episode 2** (also known simply by **Episode 2**) is the second competition of the **Future Foundation Server**, and the second Episode of Season 1. The Episode included 21 participants and 2 hosts.

Sign-ups started on **December 5, 2022**. The Prologue of the episode started on **December 11, 2022** and lasted until **March 19, 2023**.

## Gallery

For more images of Episode 2, see Episode 2/Image Gallery.

## Creation and Development

**Episode 2** centered around the usage of the first map of the server: gm\_wendylin\_island by users jlowe3 and Brute. The idea of using this map was originated by Alejolanz and Tough Stuff in an attempt to create an experience similar to that of Danganronpa 2. Eventually, collaboration on this map would eventually create the server of the Future Foundation. As the name was kind of disliked, the users and admins would name the island: **Arcadia Island**.

As a result, this map had a lot of emotional value for the Island Administration Squad, and thus an eventual episode would be set to happen on this map.

Although originally intended to be the first Episode (with Episode 4 being another possible contender) with the codename: **Alpha Centauri** (Alpha being the first letter of the Greek alphabet), The delays of the map's creation and the insecurities about the lag pushed the season to Episode 2 instead, since it wasn't so sure if everything was going to work alright.

The idea of the episode was centered about **Remembrance**. Inspired by concepts like Unus Annus, the game would explore two killing games instead of one. The events of the Tragedy Across the Seas as well as it's own killing game. This was to counter the idea that the users would be aware that this was a "**Simulation**" and therefore no lives were really in peril. Although some secrets would spice things up as well, ensuring that although no lives were at stake, results worse than death itself could still happen.

The Episode centered about one character: The Host Overseer and his experience during Danganronpa 4. The Participants would be allowed to explore his memories through areas across the map, including buildings flooded by the waters of a rising beach (The Flooded Buildings) where the more vital pieces were found. Every chapter the participants would discover two to three terminals, all exploring different participants of said killing game. Their behavior, talent and fate. The whole purpose of this experiment was to help Overseer find answers with regards of what happened. If he had missed something, or if something was to be missed. In the end however, there was no answers. Memories can only go so far, and the real answers were to be found within the Events of Episode 2, instead of the memory terminals. Once he realized this, the Killing game would reach its final stage.

Episode 2 is notorious for its longevity and the constant issues surrounding its several delays. The Episode started on December, which was meant to contain 2 chapters and to resume on January 6th. However, issues with DeSync on the map made it very difficult to host, and frustrated players alike, leading up to the prologue not continuing through Chapter 1 as intended. Attempts to fix this were done with the help of various users and removal of 300/500 props, but to no avail. As a result of this, Chapter 1 would be the last chapter played for that month, taking the spot of what was meant to be Chapter 2.

January was also heavily problematic, as the Moving of Alejolanz to a new state further delayed things into the middle of the month instead of January 6 as was intended. Moreover, an attempt to do Chapter 2 at the middle of January was done to a surprising Failure due yet again to DeSync. This pushed the two Hosts Alejolanz and AlexZurp7 to consider canceling the Episode and continuing to Episode 3. However, due to the optimism of AlexZurp7, several attempts to fix the DeSync issue were done, which included removing 1000 of the 2500 Props on the map, as well as replacing texts with images and installing render distance addons as well as a fog that would both help to decrease lag. Eventually this issues would reduce DeSync substantially. The discovery of the Church Building acting as a way to fix the Desync for Players inside the game was also a helpful thing altogether.

The Episode would resume a month later than intended, on February 11, and would have a very groundbreaking second chapter. Kokichi Oma would become the first participant to die to a motive instead of being killed. The chapter had an interesting trial with an interesting killer, and a Execution that while long, led to an unexpected outcome. The next chapter however (Chapter 3) would be the inverse of Chapter 2, and be notoriously infamous for it's bad results: The complete disregard of the motive; the killings of two rising characters; a trial that contained a vast amount of clues as a consequence of ignoring the motive, yet failed regardless of the hosts attempt to help the Spotless; the execution of the only two individuals that got the trial correct, who were also rising characters; and the sabotage of one of the executions due to the player ignoring the hosts and doing whatever he wanted, led to a disaster of a chapter that would stain the Episode. To further complicate things, there was a gap between Chapter 3 and 4 due to the lack of consistence with the Summary of the Episode in the Discord Server. As the Summary was extremely behind the episode, Alejo decided to push the chapter later for the summary to be allowed to catch up.

Regardless, the episode would move forward with four surprisingly good chapters. Chapter 4 would be a mixed bag, With a good Aftermath and Daily life, as well as a shocking execution, but a very one-sided trial due less for awareness of the culprit and more for allegiances with "The Family". A group that consisted of three players who would all back up each other regardless of logic. Likewise, Chapter 5 had a surprisingly effective motive, shocking reveals and a wonderful trial and execution. However the death of one of the victims was tampered by the hosts, which caused notoriety with a small group of players, though in the end the same death would happen later on in the same chapter.

Chapter 6 would end up being the best of the Episode however. As the players thought this was the final chapter (only revealed at the end that a Chapter 7 would take place, breaking the Danganronpa Trope of ending the game at Chapter 6) This chapter would reveal one of the characters in the memory terminals as a "Surprise Host" and they would participate in the Minigame Trial (Volunteer's Dilemma) which would result in a slightly cheesy but unpredictable death of a beloved character. As the participants got to the exit door of the game, they hosts (Lolla and Rouxls) would dissapear, leaving the players to wonder around the island until they found Overseer. He would give a speech to them about the ambiguity of morality of this simulations, and his new found resolve to end "All Killing Games", and he would proceed to dropping multiple Nuclear Bombs to the island, announcing that a final chapter would happen. As planned, Chapter 7 would be occurring a day after Chapter 6.

Chapter 7 would bring all of the deceased players (with a couple exceptions) to the island as Zombified or ghostly versions of themselves to participate in the final trial. This trial would reveal that there was an user carrying a [**KEYGEN**] and this user, if selected, would be the sole survivor of the episode. However, if this user wasn't selected, they would die alongside the user that was selected as well. This created a strong dilemma as the [**KEYGEN**] holder was none other than the kid Sunny Hidaka. In the end, the participants would select him and he would become the final survivor of the Episode. Concluding with him leaving the area, and the executions of the final three competitors.

## Plot Summary

### Chapter 1: Noisy Neighbors, Our Dystopic Utopia

[MOTIVE]: The first motivation for Episode 2, was the Hip shop and its trusted owner Roulxs, the Hip Shop was a place for students to buy one of a kind items from there, them being weapons and secret “inteleth” that Roulxs wouldn't tell them what intel it is. The only way to buy from the shop is to earn Coupons, COU for short, to earn COU was quite a simple process: it was earned by working for Roulxs. Along with that, there would be a work schedule. They could buy anything within the shop as long as they worked their shifts. this was not, in fact, enslavement, but capitalism. Roulxs finished off his economic strategy by telling the group that 2 participants each and every day would work to earn COU to spend on goods and services. This motive would carry on for multiple upcoming chapters.

### Chapter 2: Melting Sands Forge Unspoken Bonds

[MOTIVE A]: When the students arrive to the church, two brand new motives await them, the first motive was a continuation of the Hip Shop motive, Roulxs and Overseer have added a list of weapons that can be bought in the Hip Shop with Cou, the following weapons added were:

1 COU - Camera, Motion Tracker, 2 COU - Melee Arts Weapons, C4 Piece 3 COU - Riot Shield, Manhack, Crowbar 4 COU - Tazer, Road Sign, Instakill Katana 5 COU - Magnum Gun, C4, [ REDACTED ] 6 COU - Manhack Gun (OPC), Chainsaw

\*: DO NOT SELL; GUNS, CROWBARS, ILLUMINA, KATANAS, ROAD SIGNS, PROXIMITY CHARGE, TRUE PUSH BROOM, OR ZWEIHANDER. OPC; ONCE PER CHAPTER

[MOTIVE B]: In the Church Overseer would tell the students that the air conditioning had been shut off, and Señor Kuma is attempting to fix it, that's why he has not presented any food at the restaurant, the motive wouldn't be noticed until later on, as the whether had gradually began to grow hotter and hotter, eventually it had gotten so hot that the rain started to burn everyone on the island, people sheltered in buildings but due to the lack of air conditioning the heat would still effect them. The lack of water and hydration settled into the students as they start to feel a lack of energy, And would even start to take damage. This wouldn't stop until a murder, and nobody was murdering. The heat was too much, and so a student fell, Kokichi Ouma.

### Chapter 3: A Dance of Needles and Strings

[MOTIVE]: Senor Kuma would announce that he is taking blood tests of all the students on the Island, whilst people didn't know why, they all participated to do so, Señor would call two participants at a time to the Doctors Hut, and proceed to take samples of their blood, once all remaining students test were done Señor advertised that the participants can see what blood type they were in the doctor's office. The blood types were listed as such:

A - Miles ; Tsumugi ; **Kokichi** ; Sunny ; Overseer

AB - Kizuna ; Celeste ; **Trucy** ; **Hutao** ; Ranmaru

B - **Ryoma** ; Gundham ; Sara ; Yukio ; Nao

O - **Korekiyo** ; **Juzo** ; Chester ; Mari ; Keiji

Oil: **Keebo** ; Aigis

Overseer revealed the blood tests they took that day were… perfectly safe. the important thing about the blood tests was for to receive their blood types. He then got a little 𝓭𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓪 as he displayed the blood types on the board behind him. Everyone would be assigned a specific weapon tied to their blood type. The weapon they’d receive would be unique, and couldn’t be exchanged. As an example, those who were AB could potentially get a cavalry saber, and everyone in AB would know each of them has a cavalry saber. Overseer then included the fact that if they kill with their assigned weapons, they will receive one of four random benefits. Death without consequence, one less clue during investigation, no minigame during the trial, or a negative minigame during the trial. Finally, Overseer then informed “today’s killers” that there’s another reason for the blood test they took today. Using their DNA, they created a vaccine capable of making them immune to any disease for the duration of their trip.

### Chapter 4: Radioactive Shores and Trapped Facades

[MOTIVE]: As the volunteers adjusted from the previous deaths, they explored the newly opened long-abandoned floors of the hospital, they noticed a warning sign. “The water of the hospital was contaminated with Uranium due to the collapse of the radiology room.” The closer they approached said room, the more deadly the effects would be. This was revealed to be a test of a new method of killing: “Death By Radiation”. A new virus had been released and was infecting the volunteers one by one, later on the disease's origins would be found due to Chester Sasori, the Electrical Supply area had been filled with a radioactive substance.

### Chapter 5: Heavy Weather

[MOTIVE]: The island had been affected by a severe thunderstorm, with the potential of a hurricane passing by, for the safety of the volunteers, they were all put inside houses to take shelter in and locked inside. **They would not be able to leave until the weather clears**. The 8 participants were divided into 3 groups:

Kizuna, Ranmaru and Tsumugi

Keiji, Mari and Sara

Chester and Sunny

Each group was confined to their own house, and to be able to leave they would need to **buy a portal to other buildings** at the cost of **1 COU** each. There were 4 areas they could go to if they chose. **The Hip Shop**, which allowed them to work for more **COU** and buy weapons. **The Restaurant**, which gave them access to **FOOD**. **The Church**, to discover someone’s **TRUTH**. And the last option... **[REDACTED]**.

The volunteers however **couldn’t connect directly to the other houses**. Instead, they would have to connect **first with one of the four areas**, and from there they could connect to another house. Other than that, it was business as usual. Just waiting for someone to kill someone else and the motive would end. Though with everyone segregated like this it’d take some time.

### Chapter 6: Nuclear Truths and Selfish Cooperation

[MOTIVE]: the so-called “**Prisoner’s Dilemma**” was now A **VOLUNTEER’S DILEMMA**! The participants remained silent as the rules were laid out flat to them. They had two options: **COOPERATE** or **DEFECT**, and everyone would be making these decisions at their trial bench. **Cooperate** means you will **lose -20 Health**, but everyone will **+10 health** for your sacrifice. **Defect** means you will **not lose any health**, and if someone cooperates, **you will receive 10 health per person Cooperating** for your help. If **everyone Defects**, then Everyone loses **-30 Health**, but if everyone **cooperates**… then everyone only loses **-10 health.** This game will last five rounds until someone dies. If no one dies by Round 5, then **Death Match** happens.

### Chapter 7: Fallout and Zombification

[MOTIVE]: No motive is presented at this time.

## Awards

### Overall Best Performance Award

Ultimate Virologist
Former Ultimate Detective
Ultimate Violinist
Ultimate Anthropologist
Ultimate Animal Breeder