Not exactly. [Ugh. She hates talking about this. Somehow it was easier when everyone just knew already. Sure their secrets were all aired out but she never had to vomit them up herself again.

And the less time spent thinking about her, the better.]

They were a stickler for the rules. But when th-they decided not to kill anymore, they tried to skirt around them. That's how they convicted an innocent person for a murder they had committed themselves. One participant called them out on it, and they h-had to agree to a do-over of the last trial to f-find the real culprit, because they were broadcasting the killings the whole time. The point was to prove that despair would overtake us all, and that couldn't be t-true if they were breaking their own rules on the way. The whole world was watching.

[What was left of it anyway.]

Yeah, they revealed the mastermind's identity. But it's...L-look, it's much too convoluted to explain over a ph-phone! There were many layers of deception and it's just...not all that relevant here. I haven't seen signs that the s-same people are behind this at all, outside of a fake replica in that creepy museum, but there was so m-much confusing stuff in there. I think it's just to m-mess with our heads.