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

[penduli]

That's probably just a side-effect, according to Glory.

...so they probably weren't meant to make us forget anything. They just sort of did.

[notjustawriter]

Seems kind of strange for us all to have memory problems on accident, but maybe whatever they gave us was just that powerful.

[goodforsomething]

If all this is true, we've been kept out for a good couple months. Multiple doses, sure, but that's strong stuff.

[amygdalae]

It certainly has to be something incredibly potent.

[Especially since if this isn't his real body...

...

Yeah.]

[goodforsomething]

...wait, why the hell would Mettaton have had memory problems? Sure, you could probably hook a robot into a virtual world, but you can't drug him.

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

Maybe something got messed up on the way? He told me once that the hot body he was in actually wasn't all that energy efficient, but when he asked KM about it that guy told him he wouldn't have to worry about it.

[isafraid]

Maybe the Kingmaker is smart enough to fix it?

[pokexplorer]

From what I could tell, he wasn't exactly a normal robot. It was simply his body that was robotic for the most part.

[He'll glance to Sigrun for clarification.]

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah, just a metal body with a monster soul inside. He used to be something I'm sworn to secrecy about.

[And so is Mouri. Mouri is also sworn to secrecy, her glance'll remind him.]

[goodforsomething]

Can you stick a needle in a soul?

[cherryblooded]

You can touch one. Don't see why not.

[goodforsomething]

Eeeeeegh. That's creepy.

[captainobnoxious]

As long as you don't have the intent to kill him or hated him in any way, you could've done almost anything to his soul and he would've been able to take a couple dozen hits.

But that's not common knowledge unless you're from his world, so it would've been a fifty-fifty chance for them. I can't see why they'd risk it, and if I find out anyone but me touched his soul, especially to do that, they're losing their hands.

[No one hurts her boyfriend except her, goddammit.]

[amygdalae]

All the same, its not as if chemicals that affect us would affect him similarly.

[He has the body of a robot, which is the main point here.]

[pokexplorer]

Oh, I completely understand that.

If we want to focus on his body then, there are plenty of ways to remove memory from machines.

[goodforsomething]

That puts us back to it bein' done on purpose.

[penduli]

Maybe it glitched when he was... uploaded or... whatever'd have to happen for a robot to be here too, and that caused his memory loss?

[pokexplorer]

That is possible. It isn't as though data corruption during transfer is uncommon. As...unfortunate as it tends to be.