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

[cherryblooded]

That explains where the missing blanket from the supply closet went. I was about to bring that up.

mod ping

[garudynamic]

Hey Cherry, gimme a hand with it?

[He wants to stretch it out so they can all see the blood stains more easily. If it was used to carry her while she was still bleeding maybe the blood is all in the middle? But if it was used to mop things up the blanket should be saturated all over. That's his thought, anyways]

[trustharder]

[It's saturated all over.]

[garudynamic]

Yeah, about what I thought. Though if she was still... bleeding... and was on it with that wound who knows how much it might've spread around. Still, guess it's just a really big towel.

[He doesn't want to think any of them would haul her around while she was still alive, after all. That's a bit much]

[prismbloom]

How fresh was the blood when you found the blanket, Yosuke?

[garudynamic]

Still wet. See?

[He steps out from his podium a bit so she can see his whole body. There's smears of blood on his hips, as if he wiped his hands on himself. With his red jumpsuit they are only now starting to show as the blood dries out.]

[prismbloom]

...

I'm not too familiar with anatomy, but would the cut to her thigh be enough to draw that much blood?

[sleepingkogoro]

Definitely. It's an artery, there would be enough loss of blood for death in matter of minutes.

[In other words: yep]

[garudynamic]

If the vein was hit just right, I think? Like how it would if you get the artery on the neck? I couldn't tell you where it is other then 'leg' though. Heh... I'm a strong C average, ya know?

[prismbloom]

[ She'll accept that! ]

If she had lost enough blood to die... why the bruise on her head?

[garudynamic]

It had to be before she died. So she was completely bled out before she was hung. I think you have to have blood to bruise. I dunno if you can get marks like that after you die, but I don't know anatomy well enough to say.