Take Responsibility.

[wordsmithery]

The time allotted for investigation this week is a bit longer than normal - not due to anything done wrong on the part of the Apprentices, but perhaps due to a basic understanding that two corpses are going to be decidedly more difficult to handle than one. However, at the end of the time period you've been given, the elevator is waiting for you, as cold and sterile as always in its journey up to the courtroom; you're down to almost half of your original number, and if anything is going to indicate that this shows no signs of stopping, it's probably this week. The deceased have had three more join their numbers since you were here last - Gold, Varric, and Viktor's portraits have been greyed-out and set atop their spots in the podium circle, the podiums themselves draped in black fabric. As always, the lectern above stands empty. Whether he's with you or not, however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith's voice can be heard throughout the room. "Welcome back. Two more Apprentices are missing from your number today, and I have little doubt that weighs heavily on your minds. Balanced and Capricious have been lost to you, so that the guilty may have a chance to leave the academy and possibly even gain something otherwise impossible to attain. If you wish for your fallen Apprentices to receive justice in death, then you know what to do: yet again, hold the guilty accountable." Sixteen Apprentices remain. However many leave here at the end of the day has yet to be seen.

Comments

[feistytrader]

Hey.

[Silver stands at his podium bearing a good amount of fruit and eggs on several plates. Weavile is with him and helping him carry some of it; usually his Pokémon aren't present at the trials, but the Pokémon absolutely refused to leave him alone this week.]

Come eat before we start this stuff. There's no point in going hungry.

[...This is an offer made in complete ignorance of the god damn brain matter, but he tried.]

[deofoled]

[ Killia's here with own large pile of assorted food, but he gives Silver a nod nonetheless. Who cares about brain matter, food's still important.]

I should have made curry for them.

[ Curry's the one food he looks like he doesn't have here tbh.]

[acherontiastyx]

Oh, yeah, thanks.

[he will go over, also in ignorance of the fucking brain matter]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Elda actually takes some fruit. She can't eat it, but depending, she might have a use for this ]

[tsugomori]

Oh yes, thank you.

[ Mikazuki is always up for eating, why not. ]

[elepe]

That's so thoughtful of you, sweet Silver. Thank you.

[She'll gladly take some fruit, this looks like it'll be a Day.]

[oyashiromama]

[Ah...]

Thank you, Silver.

[...she probably won't be able to eat any of it, but.]

[foundfate]

[Watanuki won't be taking any of the food, but.]

Thanks, Silver.