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

[quadruples]

[ Viktor looks a little uncomfortable as he heads over to his podium; he hates this, he hates having to do this. It doesn't get easier. ]

Orihime and I investigated the chem lab. Some containers were sitting out on the counter; methanol and various solvents, plus copper chloride. [ He whips out his phone to check the picture he took to make sure he got the names right. ] They've all been used.

Additionally, we found some notes. Some of it was written in German and we couldn't understand it, and there was a layman's explanation on making chlorine gas.

[ He'll also pull out this. ]

This was in one of the drawers. It looks unfinished, and the handwriting matches the other notes we found in the lab.

[acherontiastyx]

...wait. Isn't that the stuff you can accidentally make if you mix bleach and ammonia.

[foundfate]

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

[quadruples]

[ ...Ah, wait, one small correction. ]

Concentrated chlorine gas, to be more specific.

[firstaid]

Forgive me for not knowing, but what is the significance between the chlorine gas and concentrated chlorine gas? If anyone knows.

[quadruples]

I don't know. I was never good at chemistry. [ somebody who knows chemistry please help... ]

[plentyfriendly]

The more concentrated it is, the less it takes to kill someone.

[That's about all there is to it, isn't there.]

[firstaid]

[Hmm...]

I suppose that's all the explanation one would need.

[matchbreaker]

So it's toxic? Like to breathe?

[plentyfriendly]

More or less.

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

[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.

[firstaid]

[She has to think a moment on this...

...then it hits her.]

Do you think... he was trying to actually--

[She can't even finish that thought to be honest.]

[quadruples]

...Could he have been planning to kill everyone?

[iaspis]

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

If true, I doubt he was thinking of it, but it wouldn't have killed me.

[uncouthhatcher]

So it'd just be you and him if that's what happened?

[...]

Wonder what would get happen then, if it got down to just two people.

[neverheardofhim]

You were still on his list. He still cared about you. Maybe he wanted to keep you alive. Let you walk free?

[feistytrader]

...If he and someone else did this, they'd only need one person alive to vote for to get out of here, right? Two would be a majority.

[foundfate]

[Well that is a horrifying thought.]

It kind of makes sense, in a sick way. You can't have a trial if everyone else except you is dead.

cw LET'S TALK ABOUT SUICIDE

[oyashiromama]

[...]

Kimbley told me he didn't care if he lived or died, though. In fact...he was waiting to die. He might have just had enough.

[Kill everyone, one fell swoop, himself included..]

[neverheardofhim]

[Varric shook his head, trying to scrape up some amount of benefit of the doubt.]

We talked last week. He said it would take something big to shift his thinking. Before that he said he had people he cared about...

[Now he shifted.]

Kira died. Chiyuki was gone. Elda was crossed off. If Jasper was all he had...

[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?

[feistytrader]

[Copper... chloride? Was it copper chloride?]

I think the copper stuff makes blue fire. Kimbley showed me once. I don't know anything else about it, though.

[plegia]

Is that what he used? He showed me how to do that as well, though I'll admit I wasn't paying close attention to the names of the chemicals.

[feistytrader]

I think so. He said it was safer than burning the poison stuff.

[plegia]

Right, he did mention that it had to be disposed of carefully!

[SETTING IT ON FIRE IS CLEARLY THE WAY TO GO]