Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And after a given amount of time, those elevator doors at the end of the first-floor corridor open up; as it was last week, the ride down is smooth and quick-moving, even if there are less of you this week. (Technically, you're only down by one in the elevator; Bruce has ensured that Pearl is with you in some way, albeit unconventionally and by the grace of Ziploc.) However, when the doors open up to the podium circle standing in the middle of that black void of a courtroom, there's no mistaking the fact that there are fewer people present than there were last week – Kamui and Pearl have joined those with podiums draped in black, their framed profile portraits watching the proceedings in shades of grey. It's still impossible to tell exactly where the Kingmaker is watching the proceedings from, though it's obvious that he is; he'll wait until everyone is settled before he speaks, his voice coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once. "Devoted has been taken from you. All of you know what the stakes are now, but this happened anyway – looks like someone's determined. Whether they succeed or not is up to you." Twenty-four Survivors remain. We'll see how many are still standing by the end of the day.

Comments

[cherryblooded]

That's true. Normally, you'd try something a little simpler than a sledgehammer to kill someone - so it was probably someone who knew about the rock... But that could have been anyone, really. We all knew she was an alien.

[happysweets]

But it'd have to be someone she spoke with enough for them to know the rock was her weak spot!

[cherryblooded]

Can't say I knew her well enough to know that, or to know who she spoke with often.

[lackinginfaith]

I'd certainly think she'd leave a body, or that she could be killed some other way, but apparently not.

[bloodisthicker]

Honestly, I feel like it doesn't take advanced knowledge of alien biology to guess that hitting someone in the forehead with a sledgehammer would probably kill them.

I think the more pressing question is who would have the arm strength to accomplish that.

[cherryblooded]

It's not that you wouldn't know it would kill her - it's that it wouldn't be my first choice to kill someone. There are no shortage of weapons here, and a sledgehammer is not the most practical.

[bloodisthicker]

True, but it's hard to say that it wouldn't get the job done if you could use it right. If anyone specifically knew about that, it would definitely make them more suspicious, but I think we should keep open minds about the whole thing.

[cherryblooded]

Fair enough. Hard to prove what someone knew or didn't know.