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

[ignorantly]

Like what? The murder weapon or something? [ Did Mion even own a sword? ]

[goodforsomething]

Maybe she got somethin' of theirs outta the machine.

[isafraid]

At this rate both can be possible. That blasted machine tends to spit out horrible weapons at us whenever it likes, doesn't it?

[ignorantly]

That'd make sense. I was kinda thinking that they knocked her out, and then took her key to get the sword from her room so they could kill her with it, but that doesn't seem likely... [ He's just throwing whatever comes to mind out there. He's not good at this stuff. ]

[goodforsomething]

If they were plannin' it anyway, they could've just got a knife from the kitchen beforehand. Or anything else, there's a lotta ways to kill someone without a sword.

[prismbloom]

If they weren't planning on killing her... Who exactly would carry a sword around? It's not inconspicuous.

[goodforsomething]

I'm just sayin' they probably didn't get the sword from her room.

But you got a point - she must've seen it comin' if they were luggin' that thing around. But it doesn't look like there was a big fight, right?

[prismbloom]

Not in her room. But when Cherryvlod and I entered the art room, it looked like there had been some sort of fight.