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

[uncouthhatcher]

[Oh boy!!! He's alive, he's alive!]

It's the same! Hook me up with a glass of that after all this, I'm gonna pour one out for Chi!

[please he needs to be Drinking]

[neverheardofhim]

[Shifty eyes. If he says yes everyone will yell at him.]

Come see me after the trial and we'll have a talk about your bad habits. [Translation: Keep quiet and don't get me in trouble when I hook you up.]

[uncouthhatcher]

[oh......]

Fiiiine. [hell yea]

[elepe]

Gold, you are far too young for drinking.

[DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT YOUNG MAN]

[uncouthhatcher]

It's just gonna be for her, Lusa, not for me! She worked at a bar, you know? She probably knew exactly what was in it.

[A pause.]

... She might've made it then, huh.

[plentyfriendly]

She revealed her own secret at the meeting. I'm not going to rule out that she had another motive for killing someone, but isn't that strange?