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

[garudynamic]

So they planned it but couldn't pull through?

[cherryblooded]

Probably. Especially with a knife around - odds are he intended for this to be a stabbing and couldn't work up the nerve, went with a strangling instead.

Less messy. Easier. Also harder to actually kill someone with.

[amygdalae]

The strangling could have been a precursor to the stabbing - it only takes about two minutes to lose consciousness without any proper airflow.

[Which means that Gabriel was completely defenseless, but then... apparently stabbing didn't go through??]

[cherryblooded]

Either way, stabbing was intended, didn't happen.

[amygdalae]

More or less.

[isafraid]

Or they thought they'd done the job well enough that they didn't need to stick around.