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

[isafraid]

It might be safer then anything to assume it was just being used to wipe up an unrelated mess.

[capyper]

The only way that could be the case is if somebody were doing their laundry earlier in the night, right...? I don't think we can just throw it out like that.

[amygdalae]

In that case, is there the possibility that Pearl herself was the one using it when the incident happened?

[There was the dust in the room after all. Not a lot, but some.]

[capyper]

What would she have been using it for, laundry...?

[amygdalae]

I'm not sure. But if we want to account for the towel, we have to see every possibility.

[isafraid]

That's what I've been starting to assume. If we start the night's events from there, then maybe everything else will fall into place behind it.

[Because why else would a towel be damp?]

[amygdalae]

Perhaps. We need to have a clearer picture of exactly what transpired.