Take Responsibility.

[wordsmithery]

Again, the elevator is waiting for you after the allotted time for investigation is over; it idles almost patiently at each floor, waiting for everyone to be on board before sending all of you up to the courtroom high above. Over a third of your original number is dead. The losses are made all the more apparent by the addition of several greyed-out portraits around the podium circle at the center of the room; Kira, Mercy, Judy, Nick, and Kimbley have all joined the ranks of the deceased, their podiums draped in black. Meanwhile, the lectern above stands empty. The Wordsmith waits for everyone to find their place in the circle before he speaks; once that much has been done, his voice can be heard easily throughout the room. "Welcome back, Apprentices. The past several days have been troublesome indeed, and I need not point out that your number has dropped significantly. But a matter even more pressing requires your attention at the moment. In accordance with Rule Seven, the guilty seeks to leave the university and rewrite history. If you wish to prevent that, hold them accountable and have them take responsibility for the fate of Incendiary." Nineteen Apprentices remain. However many leave here at the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[uncouthhatcher]

[he sees how it is

you guys get to talk about kinks and shaming them but he doesn't get to ask watanuki about his hot or not list

discrimination right there]

[iaspis]

[.........]

He didn't seem the type to be swayed so easily. But then, I never asked him much about his past.

[elepe]

Perhaps that was simply his luck.

[Shrug.]

...He may have hit his head on the pool, actually.

[foundfate]

['a fake human'

Something about those words strikes a chord within Watanuki.]

A fake human? How can a human be fake?

[tsugomori]

Hmm...I don't have quite an idea yet, but I don't recall seeing any bats around here or hammers. So maybe not those two. It's just a guess though.

[plentyfriendly]

In that case, it's most likely those are chlorine tabs.

[uncouthhatcher]

Either way, that's... a lot to go through, what the hell. Someone have a grudge against the guy?

[foundfate]

Yeah, that's why cleaning chemical bottles always warn you not to mix different products.

[neverheardofhim]

I only ask because I'm wondering the same damn thing as Lucy. He might have hit his head on the pool.

[iaspis]

He asked me why the pool smelled of chlorine.

But I didn't think much of the question. I didn't know the answer, anyway.

[plentyfriendly]

More or less.

[She's not... quite there on the details.]

[foundfate]

[OH WAIT]

The tablets, Silver said they smell like a pool. Chlorine is used to clean pools, right? Could someone have taken them to use to try and make chlorine gas?

[iaspis]

He told me, after he broke himself out of prison, that a man took him in.

Maybe it was this Greed person.

[oyashiromama]

I... We talked some. [This sucks-] But it was more about his...thought process regarding war and life.

[foundfate]

Well, Chlorine is used to clean pools, I think.

[Though that makes him realize something else.]

[elepe]

The only one who likely did died last week. Unless someone else was harboring decidedly intense emotions about that man.

[...which doesn't sound like her, really. She's not exactly sure, either.]

[matchbreaker]

He was a [ Hmm.... ] Ho...mon...cu...lus?

A human made with alchemy.

[iaspis]

...Yes, that's about what I discussed with him, too.

[plentyfriendly]

Any idea what that glass might have looked like intact?

[Was it flat? Curved? How thick was it?]

[uncouthhatcher]

[... A look at Varric, but he's not saying anything. Just thoughtful.]

[matchbreaker]

[ See here ]

[feistytrader]

...Varric did threaten him last week.

[It's a little too early to say anything one way or the other, but he's throwing that out there.]

[matchbreaker]

No, no blood that I saw.

[neverheardofhim]

In my experience, gas is never used to poison just one person though. [His expression shifted, turning darker.]

I knew the blighter was going to try something.

[foundfate]

[Watanuki is not actually familiar with that word, but the explanation makes sense!]

Huh. I didn't know that kind of thing was even possible.