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

[garudynamic]

Might not have been the killer that did it at all. I mean, if Pearl was doing laundry... there's no real way to know for sure.

[penduli]

If her body was just a projection, wouldn't her clothes be part of that? Like a hologram. [ Or something. ] She wouldn't need to do laundry.

[ ...he's setting aside his awkwardness for now, you should too. ]

[garudynamic]

[His lips are a little tight- but now isn't the time for that]

True. We just don't know enough about how she works... worked. Maybe the killer lured her there instead?

[lackinginfaith]

She might've been washing something else. We were all using that laundry room.

[notjustawriter]

Something she got from the vending machine, maybe?

[garudynamic]

True... plus, the laundry room would kinda be the best place to use a weapon like a hammer. It'd be- [gulp] a mess. You should rinse everything off faster in there.

If they didn't expect Pearl to turn into a rock, they might have panicked and thought up the stair cover up on the fly and forgot the blood.