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

[isafraid]

Not at the moment, no. I wouldn't want to believe that someone would go around and murder again right after this.

[But the thought was out there now. Not much he can do.]

You really think it could be the Kingmaker having a go at a real murder?

[sleepingkogoro]

As I said: it's just a possibility.

It isn't like I found anything worthwhile, just what Pines-san saw and what Bruce-san found about the strangling wounds. Cherryblod-san found that sink in the bathroom but I'm not sure of the significance yet.

If there's no more evidence then I can't say there's proof pointing towards a concrete person here. After all, a throwing knife can be obtained anywhere. The Kingmaker himself has shown to have access to the weapons.

[Notes and motives were given with butterfly knives, and what was with the King was a pike, wasn't it?]

[captainobnoxious]

[-- Well, Sigrun seems to relax a little, grin returning.]

Anyone's fair game, like I said. But Cherry's got a fair point in that the culprit's probably not too experienced in killing others.

[amygdalae]

...its not like its an impossible assumption at this point.

[With Glory's warning and the Kingmaker's apparent silence?? Who knows.

Anyway, to everyone at large:]

Has anybody tried to contact the Kingmaker ever since Tuesday?

[penduli]

Not this week, no. I didn't think he'd have anything to say to people he was apparently deciding to kill off regardless of what we decided to do this week, so I didn't try.

[goodforsomething]

Not me. I got sick of dealin' with him a while ago.

[isafraid]

I barely contact the blighter at all. We never did get off on the right foot.

[cherryblooded]

Not me. We don't really get along.

[sleepingkogoro]

Not me, either.

[garudynamic]

Nothing on my end- haven't even tried.

[captainobnoxious]

[A shake of her head.]

[pokexplorer]

[Colress shakes his head.]

I haven't spoken to him in weeks, honestly.

[notjustawriter]

I stopped bothering weeks ago.

[amygdalae]

[Bruce nods as he hears each person, humming quietly after that.]

If that's the case than that makes me the last person to get in contact with the Kingmaker - that was on Sunday.

[goodforsomething]

And Tuesday didn't exactly go accordin' to plan...wonder if he's havin' some kind of trouble.

[notjustawriter]

I wonder.... if one of us tried to contact him right now, would he respond?

[amygdalae]

Should we try?

[...is it even worth a shot?]

[goodforsomething]

Let's find the fuck out.

[Stan takes his phone, dials, and holds it to his ear.

..........]

Nothin'.

[amygdalae]

[Welp that was a bust.]

Tuesday is the last time any of us heard from him then, in this case.

[...which probably doesn't mean anything, but.]