Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

For the third time, those elevator doors at the end of the first-floor corridor open up at the end of the allotted investigation period; the ride down is, as ever, smooth and quick-moving. You're down by five. When the doors slide open, the podium circle still stands in stark contrast to that now-familiar black void of a courtroom, and once again, it's changed to reflect your losses – Caren and Mion have joined those with podiums draped in black, their framed greyscale profile portraits staring out at the rest of you. (The portrait of Pearl hasn't been removed from her room, but it seems the Kingmaker has replaced it with another; either way, her photograph is in the courtroom along with the rest.) As before, the Kingmaker waits until everyone is settled at their podiums before he speaks; he still isn't visible, but he can clearly be heard, his voice coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once. "Capable has been taken from you. I'll confirm one thing for you so no one will waste time asking – the killer wasn't me. Looks like the guilty decided to take a shot at Rule Seven after all – and whether they succeed or not is up to you." Twenty-two Survivors remain. We'll see how many the group has lost at the end of the day.

Comments

[penduli]

That's the first thing I went looking for and no, there wasn't.

[captainobnoxious]

Maybe they thought she was dead with the hit to the head and when they realized she wasn't they bled her out instead. I'm thinking she might've ran to the art room to hide if it started in the game room.

[cherryblooded]

--no, that's not it. I've gotten more than one of that kind of sword out of the vending machine - I doubt it's Mion's.

[garudynamic]

Point... then I have no idea the order of this played out. It's a mess.

[capyper]

Think harder! You're in the prime of your youth, you can't go wasting your brain cells already!

[notjustawriter]

Damn.

So much for that theory.

[cherryblooded]

That's what I thought. So if that's not it, then they might have been looking for something, but - what? What do you even need if you're planning to escape?

The and rope blanket are from the storage room, not her room. If they already had the sword...

[goodforsomething]

She did like to gamble. We played a few hands of poker earlier this week.

[captainobnoxious]

What if he didn't have any to start with?

[capyper]

If you're following the logic of a bet, then how about this for a possibility. Mion went there with the killer willingly.

... She had her own sense of responsibility, after all. I don't think she'd back out on the terms she'd agreed to!

[capyper]

... You said it, not me!

[ Buuuuut he's also not defending Yosuke's honor here sorry Yosuke ]

[captainobnoxious]

... Knocked her out, hung her up in the art room, took her key to get the sword, and let the blood out? If they didn't already have it, I mean.

[cherryblooded]

...The art room didn't have that many signs of a fight, did it? I was only in there briefly, but it looked like a couple stools knocked over and a tipped easel.

That could be staged.

[penduli]

That doesn't really discount it being Mion's, does it? She could've gotten it just like you have. [ ...erm, this is probably a bad time to admit to this, but-- ]

I've gotten a handful of weapons from the machine too, but I don't know what to do with any of them, so I just leave them in my trunk most of the time. [ Don't come to his room for a murder weapon it's always locked. ] She might've been the same way or something.

[cherryblooded]

That brings us back around to what they knocked her out with.

[capyper]

... You guys. Really? You don't need a weapon to knock somebody out...

[captainobnoxious]

A table.

[cherryblooded]

Have you gotten more than one of anybody's personal effects?

[He doesn't know about renewables, shh.]

[pokexplorer]

If she went out of her way to run down to the second floor to hide, she may as well have gone all the way down to her room. She would have at least been able to safely lock herself inside.

Granted, her key appears to missing, so that may not have been an option...

[ratingspoint]

...Darling, if you thought you were going to die, is there anything you'd ask someone to do? Like let your family know what happened?

Or maybe take something back to them, if you had something?

[cherryblooded]

Fair. I didn't see the game room, so I don't know how much of that was disturbed.

[cherryblooded]

You do need something.

[captainobnoxious]

Maaaan, I've gotta say, I already miss when we could cut someone and it'd be over with. This is a lot of thinking.

[cherryblooded]

...Oh.

[Well. That makes a lot of sense.]

[capyper]

But you don't need a weapon. Unless you're counting stuff like the floor or a wall as a weapon?