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

[feistytrader]

...What if she was knocked out?

[It's... Not a perfect theory, but here he goes anyway.]

The killer left the explosive chemical stuff in the billiards room, because they didn't want to risk it exploding. Then later, after hanging out with Chiyuki in the game room, they knocked her out, dragged her back into the room, and threw it at her.

[foundfate]

Why not just leave her in the game room and blow up the game room, then? It's a lot easier to just walk over, grab a bomb, and throw it than it is to drag her over, take the bomb, walk back to the other room, and then throw it.

[feistytrader]

[...That's a good point.]

But she couldn't have fled to the billiards room, right? At the same time, something happened in the game room, because her shards and paint flakes are in there.

[Damn. What the hell?]

[avoidcomplications]

Why blow up anything at all?

[thus spoke the neat freak]

It doesn't make sense. Surely they would have known the scene would be discovered regardless.

[foundfate]

Maybe a frame-job?

[He's not saying that Kimbley generally looks like a guilty motherfucker, but.

Kimbley generally looks like a guilty motherfucker.]

[avoidcomplications]

...Or maybe that was just their specialty.

[kimbley usually does look like some measure of guilty motherfucker.]

[neverheardofhim]

I think Kimbles is too smart for that. He would have known that all eyes would be on him.

[neverheardofhim]

... Unless that's what he wanted us to think. [No, Varric, don't go down this rabbit hole.]

[avoidcomplications]

He is certainly very clever.

[alchemicals]

I'm flattered at the level of masterminding you think I'm capable of. You have an accusation to go with it, or are we just screwing around?

[foundfate]

If I were known for something specifically, I would probably take extra care to not use that way to kill someone.

[It's safe everyone, you'll never have your food poisoned by Watanuki.]

No, this is probably someone who knows about chemicals, but has been keeping it quiet.

[avoidcomplications]

If one has a specific area of expertise, it's only natural they would fall back on it in a desperate situation.

[foundfate]

And it makes sense that, if that expertise was something like making bombs, they would be quiet.

[He understands that at least. He kept his own 'profession' a secret for nearly two weeks before he finally trusted people enough to tell them.]

[alchemicals]

If you've got something to say, Kira, go ahead and say it. You're not going to hurt my feelings any.

[avoidcomplications]

Oh, I'm not saying anything yet. We wouldn't want a repeat of blaming Elda just because she was the most suspicious one in the room, now would we?

[alchemicals]

Maybe not. But you're doing a good job of implying it anyway.

[feistytrader]

Probably to frame Lord Explosions.

[avoidcomplications]

That's an unimaginable risk to take just to frame someone. As I said--they would have to know what they were doing with a chemical like that.

[feistytrader]

So someone knows more about chemicals than they let on. It's only been three weeks. It's not like we all intimately know every detail about each other.

[foundfate]

...intimately know...

[Suddenly, Watanuki has a thought.]

The motives. If whoever did this has been keeping their chemistry skills quiet, then they probably have been keeping their secret quiet too. That would explain taking the time to make a bomb too: it's not a crime that happened in the moment because of an argument, this was planned. Probably because of the motive this week.

[plegia]

That's a pretty solid theory, actually. Who here didn't take the motive well?

[gangrel why don't you pay attention to these things...???]

[feistytrader]

I can vouch for some people in here, then. Around a third of you shared your secrets with me. Several were directly from the envelopes.

[tsugomori]

[ He'll laugh from over here. ]

It'd be quite a surprise if we did.

[quadruples]

Maybe they wanted to destroy evidence?

[foundfate]

That might not have been enough to stop her from running? Unless it was Varric or Judy or Nick who did this- which I sincerely doubt, by the way- whoever attacked her probably would have been tall enough to hit her on the upper part of her body. That wouldn't keep her from running unless it knocked her out entirely.

Actually, were there any spots on her that looked like they had been damaged before the explosion?