Take...Responsibility?

[kingmakereffect]

Unlike previous weeks in the Vault, there was no specifically allotted time for investigation; for the first time, this weekend the elevator doors remain closed at the end of the first floor corridor. There's no getting down into the courtroom from here – but then, you don't need to. After all, no one is dead. Just the same, however, a crime has been committed; perhaps not one that warrants any sort of death penalty, but one of your number was attacked by someone else still walking among you. The dining hall has been chosen as the allotted meeting place for the day; it's not the same as the trial circle by a long shot, but even so, the portraits of the deceased watch the proceedings from the far wall. Ten Survivors still remain. Let's see who wanted to lower that number by one – or nine.

Comments

[captainobnoxious]

Doubt he'll come forward. I mean, even if he didn't succeed, he did try to kill the writer over there. People's thoughts about him would change and... you know, in a place like this, stuff like that can matter.

[... Pays to be the only girl left.]

[amygdalae]

I think we've all been though enough to know that 'a life for a life' doesn't really appeal to any of us.

[And its not like Gabriel's dead, even if it had been better that nothing happened at all in the first place.]

We have a chance to deal with this properly, without going through the Kingmaker's methods. We have to prove we're better than what he is.

[notjustawriter]

That's right.

I'm not the vengeful sort; I don't want anyone dyin' because they tried to kill me. Especially not when it might involve another trial.

[isafraid]

Hmm.... I'd say that sounds about right. [He can't even argue with her using 'he'.]

But I dare say that whatever punishment we can work up on the idiot bloke is less then what the Kingmaker could do in his bloody pit.