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

[neverheardofhim]

Yeah, it's like we said earlier -- this solution is too easy.

An attempted frame-job, maybe?

[plegia]

Kimbley's not an idiot. He wouldn't do something that would obviously connect to him. While a frame job is certainly possible, I'm not sure how likely it is. How many of us would know what chemicals to use to create an explosion that wouldn't end up killing us too?

[modernmedicine]

It is entirely too easy, I agree. It's certainly possible it's an attempt to frame someone...

[neverheardofhim]

If we were back home, I would admit to being able to have made something like this but... I think there are a few people here who can attest to what I a miserable job I was doing with this stuff. [Phi? Jasper? Estelle? Anybody remember his week 1 experiments with bleach and meat?]

[plentyfriendly]

It's true. The smell was awful, which is normal, but...

[Then there was the distinct lack of safety measures. That seems to be something of a theme.]