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

A....CHECK?

[foundfate]

[ACTUALLY while all of the attention is on Gangrel and Estelle like this, Watanuki is going to look around the circle at everyone.

Where is everyone standing, and what are they doing? He's specifically looking for anyone that might be reacting weird to this shouting match (like smiling or something).]

[introspects]

[ your not!girlfriend is here at her podium being angry ]

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda's been trying to reassure Lusamine a little, but mostly she's sort of angrily pensive, trying to work this out ]

[elepe]

[Lusamine's kind of shaking and attempting to stan for the tyrant, and very angry.]

[iaspis]

[Jasper's right next to Gangrel, looking pretty neutral.

Not suspiciously neutral, but the sort of serious/blankish look a bodyguard focused on their job might have.]

[oyashiromama]

[Her usual spot, looking pensive but very tired.]

[deofoled]

[ Doing what he's been doing for 90% of this trial, which is eating.]

[sportadork]

[stress eating an apple core bc everyone's yelling and this is hard.]

[tsugomori]

[ He's rather focused on the trial, and as always hes managing to look calm ]

[byday]

[he's at his podium and angrily glaring at gangrel and his defense squad]