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

[penduli]

[ ...yosuke... ]

You do have pretty much all the knives around here now, don't you.

[garudynamic]

Not all of them, Speedwagon kept his but that's a butterfly, not a throwing knife.

[He does pull up his sleeve so they can see his throwing set on his arm, where it's been this entire gd game- still a full set]

It's not mine.

[penduli]

[ ....YOU KNOW HE'S SORT OF BEEN MEANING TO ASK ANYWAY?? ]

Why do you carry those around all the time?

[garudynamic]

Cuz I have experience in throwing knives out of my sleeves. If I didn't die in one sneak attack whoever tried it is bleeding too.

[penduli]

[ oh. ]

That's pretty cool. Maybe you can show me sometime? [ ....UH. ] Hopefully without the bleeding part..?

[garudynamic]

Oh sure! I know a few knife tricks actually!

[He does flip out one of the butterflys and flicks it open without even looking- like a greaser about to threaten someone]

[penduli]

[ ...like a delinquent... ]

Were they worth all the injuries I'm sure you sustained while you were mastering them?

[garudynamic]

[Pout]

Most of them.

[He moves to close it and drops it, point into the table]

...

Not a word.

[penduli]

[ ......okay, no words

but he's covering his mouth to try and stifle some laughter ]

[garudynamic]

I hate you a lot.

[isafraid]

[Don't mind Speedy as he pulls the folded knife out of his coat.]

Still have it right here.

[cherryblooded]

Anyone can have any vending machine item at any time, rule number one for trials.

[penduli]

Oh, definitely, I'm just... sort of amazed that anyone'd trust a teenager with most of their knives, that's all.

[ granted, yosuke is more capable than most teenagers but

yeah ]

[cherryblooded]

I'd trust Yosuke with my life - knives aren't even a concern.

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

You also trusted Mettaton with your life, too.

[just sayin]

[cherryblooded]

...So I did.

[And he slept in his room multiple Thursday nights and never came out worse for it. So as far as he's concerned, it wasn't a bad decision on his part.

Could've been worse, anyway.]

[captainobnoxious]

Mrrr.

[Yes, that's a noise.]

Nevermind. I mean, I trusted him just as much as you did, haven't got much room to talk there.

[cherryblooded]

Are we implying that I have bad taste in who to trust and thus Yosuke is a likely culprit, or are we just causing each other emotional pain for the hell of it?

[captainobnoxious]

[There's the smallest flinch before she's laughing, waving her hand.]

No, no, I'm just saying! That's all! No one's a likely culprit here, Cherry, or I should say everyone's a likely culprit here! There's nothing really special about choking someone and all!

[cherryblooded]

Well, I mean, it probably puts the more experienced of us off the table.

Like you, for example. The chances of you strangling someone, from behind, unsuccessfully, and then panicking are fairly low. I'd like to think I'd do it well or not at all, besides.

[sleepingkogoro]

[Somehow Mouri tries to hide the shiny boots Sigrun made him wear. The potential emotional pain is not a good topic when there's a big reminder of the robot they are talking about, right here]

I doubt Hanamura-kun is the culprit. It's true the scene shows traits that would indicate him, but at this point I trust him to not to attempt anything...

...especially because there's no reason to do such a thing. He is not that kind of person.

[cherryblooded]

Are any of us left that kind of person...?

[garudynamic]

Awww, come on Black, I know what I'm doing.

[penduli]

I know, I know. I'm only teasing. [ ...PROBABLY... ]

[isafraid]

There's worse sorts to be trusting weaponry to.