Take Responsibility.

[wordsmithery]

The ride up to the courtroom occurs, as before, after an allotted period of time for investigation; the elevator waits patiently for you at each floor - third, second, first - before sending you upwards and on your way to the courtroom high above. As always, the trip is a smooth one; granted, after everything that the morning had been, any small comfort that fact may bring is likely not helping much. There are three less of you this time around, a fact reflected in the podium circle standing in the middle of the room; Alani, Milla and Chiyuki have all joined the ranks of the deceased, their podiums draped in black and their portraits in greyscale keeping a watchful eye over the rest of the trial circle. There's still no one present in the lectern above; however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith's voice can be heard throughout the room. "I can see that matters are beginning to seem dire for you, Apprentices. I am sure that you all cared for Sympathetic in some measure—all except the guilty party. And now it falls to you once again to determine who that is. For your own sake as well as Sympathetic's, hold her killer accountable and have them take responsibility for their actions." Twenty-four Apprentices remain. We'll see how many remain at the end of the day.

Comments

[alchemicals]

No, it definitely is. But screaming at him about it isn't going to do anything now, is it? He's acting superior, but one of us just killed the hell out of that woman, and there's not much avoiding that.

[acherontiastyx]

...yeah, you're right. I'll write him a nasty letter later.

[...he thinks about it.]

...so this is probably gonna sound accusatory if I don't preface it like this, but I think you'd have to be really dumb to murder someone with chemicals and expect to get away with it because your the chemicals guy. Like, you don't strike me as a total bonehead.

...so what chemicals would've maybe blown Chiyuki up that we can get here.

[alchemicals]

...I think it's interesting that sodium azide is missing, but no one was poisoned. That's highly toxic, you know, and it's colorless besides.

Mix it with something, though, and you could probably get a pretty nice bang out of it.

[iaspis]

You're saying it's possible that's what killed Chiyuki?

[acherontiastyx]

...like alcohol, maybe? Would that work?

[alchemicals]

I wouldn't bother using it to make a molotov or something, if that's what you're asking. I'd use something else, personally. Ammonia, maybe.

[acherontiastyx]

...

Did someone pee in it?

[alchemicals]

...If you're peeing ammonia, you might want to talk to Mercy.

[modernmedicine]

[Shaking her head.]

Did anyone check the laundry room? I know there was bleach there, it's possible there was ammonia.

[introspects]

Kimbley-san, how long would it take for an explosion to set off after the sodium has been mixed with other ingredients?

[alchemicals]

Depends on what you mix it with.

The first things to come to mind are low-sensitivity. They're not going to just explode from the chemical reaction itself. You'd have to do something to it first. Drop it, throw it, kick it, whatever.

This was a really deliberate thing done by someone who wanted to see a few fireworks, is what I'm saying.

[oyashiromama]

Do...you think someone was intending to poison her, but...was unable to, because of the state of her body?

[That's an awkward way to put it but how else is she going to ask this question]

[feistytrader]

...Wouldn't an easier plan B be to smash her with one of the bottles of alcohol or something instead of blowing her up?

[oyashiromama]

...Aah, yes... [Hm.] I can't say I can figure out what was going on in that person's head, if that's the case.

[uncouthhatcher]

[...................]

Well, if they tried, they uh. Failed with makin' a poison. 'Cause I'm fine.

[he licked the evidence]

[feistytrader]

[Don't worry, Silver's already smacking him on the back of the head for everyone.]

[uncouthhatcher]

[a true friend to all

he knows he deserves this, he's just also pettily slapping him back]

[quadruples]

Don't go tasting the evidence next time, Gold.

[uncouthhatcher]

[AUGH]

I smelled it before I did! Just to make sure it wasn't chemically!

[...]

But I, uh. Yeah. I won't.

[elepe]

Gold...

[child today is already sounding like a ride why do you have to do this]

[oyashiromama]

[.........]

Please refrain from putting evidence in your mouth, Gold.

[alchemicals]

That's a good question, isn't it.

[matchbreaker]

Her body tasted like some resin or plastic thing [ . . . ] Would any of that react with it?

[ It seems good to ask.

... Don't ask why she knows that ]

[alchemicals]

On its own, the sodium azide wouldn't.

[matchbreaker]

Okay. [ Ugh her foot hurts but she'll spit out a, ] Thanks.