Taking Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And a while after that strange, dark floor is accessed, after you've had time to look things over and get some idea of what's happening...well. There won't be any sort of official announcement to tell you to get downstairs, nor will there be a personal invitation for you to do so. Instead, the doors at the end of the corridor (were they there before? You find that you don't remember. It doesn't matter anymore, though-) slide open, as they always do, and the elevator ride to the courtroom is probably the first familiar thing that's happened all day. It's smooth and quick, though it seems to take a bit longer than it usually does. And when the doors open at the end of the line, the courtroom looks different. The dark, weirdly cylindrical room is largely the same in and of itself, but the usual twenty-seven podium circle is gone; instead, there's a smaller setup in the center of the room - ten podiums total, and you'll likely find the way your spots have been distributed to be very familiar indeed. Of further notice is the balcony - there's a structure that wasn't there before in view of the courtroom, situated high above, barred-in by a railing that'd probably be at about waist-height on your average person; there's no one up there just yet, however. There are so few of you now. It seems that today there are no speeches to give; maybe the Kingmaker is absent, maybe he just doesn' have anything to say. Either way, however, the implication in the fact that you're here at all is clear. For one last time, make the guilty take responsibility.

Comments

[cherryblooded]

We all call each other by our names, yet you've just been dropping title after title in the past five minutes. Mettaton's the only one I've heard you call by name.

Try lying a little better, Pretentious.

[kingmakereffect]

So what? I'm allowed to call him whatever I want.

[captainobnoxious]

Your age is showing.

[Just pointing it out. Peanut gallery, though she's curious too.]

[goodforsomething]

What're you, twelve?

[captainobnoxious]

I've talked to him enough to know what it means, that's all!

Mostly when he gets comfortable with someone, as often as you'd think that is, or when he's flustered by something.

[Whether it's put on the spot or upset-flustered.]

[goodforsomething]

[He was talking to KM, not you, dear]

I can't believe a guy who's that bad at lying won a murder game.

[notjustawriter]

.....I'm surprised a guy that bad at lying is a serial killer.

[goodforsomething]

Can't have ever been interrogated by the cops, they'd break him in no time.

[notjustawriter]

....I guess it's safe to assume he was never caught. He's already fallin' apart on us, no way he'd survive cornered by some cops.

[goodforsomething]

So he's good with leavin' clean crime scenes, and that's probably it. Makes sense!

[captainobnoxious]

[Excuse me, everything is about Sigrun.]

You don't need to lie to win a murder game. You just need to make sure that you can out vote whoever's... left over.

[... Oh....]

[isafraid]

[......oh.]

That... is all it takes, isn't it? Making sure that the votes at the end weigh in your favor.

[goodforsomething]

If you took out everyone but two, all you'd need is to convince one person.

[cherryblooded]

You're allowed, certainly. You're allowed to call us by our names as well. The important thing here is that you don't.

It's not because he's a kill switch. You have moles and ex-moles you refer to by title. So what is it that separates him from us...?

[kingmakereffect]

Do you really think I'm going to tell you that? Figure it out on your own!

[amygdalae]

...you knew him before.

[There's no other reason why, right?]

[isafraid]

.... That could explain how they turned him into a kill switch.

[Right.....?]

[amygdalae]

If you know a person enough to know how to get to them the right way... yes.

[It's possible... not fully certain, of course, but possible.]

[cherryblooded]

Alright then. Let me give you a theory.

You know each other because you're from the same world. That's why Alphys is important as well - obviously you'd be a little more invested in people from your world than all these strangers.

[kingmakereffect]

Nope. You're wrong.

[cherryblooded]

...Hm, and I thought that had a good chance of being right.

If he's someone you know better than all of the rest of us, though. Then you might have had contact with him between rounds.

[kingmakereffect]

Wrong again!

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

Was Mettaton in the same round as you? He said something kind of funny to me once. Was real sure of it, too.

[cherryblooded]

You're awfully worked up about this. I thought he was just a player in this game like any of the rest of us.

[Give him a minute to come up with another theory, he's running dry.]

[notjustawriter]

...There's something the two of you have in common, isn't there? Mettaton didn't really make it a secret that he killed people for entertainment.