Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And once the allotted time for investigating comes to a close, those elevator doors slide open at the end of the first-floor corridor, offering another of those fast, smooth rides down to that black void of a courtroom Twelve out of the original twenty-seven are dead; there are four less of you present for this trial than there were last week. That's incredibly obvious as soon as the doors slide open and the podium circle comes into view where it's encircling that dark pit in the center of the room; Norman, the King, Tarrlok, and Lynne have joined the deceased, photographs in greyscale watching the proceedings from their podiums draped in black. Of course and as always, the Kingmaker is watching too; he waits until everyone is settled at their podiums to begin speaking, though it's still impossible to tell exactly where his voice is coming from. "Assured and Perceiving have been taken from you. You guys are really getting excited, aren't you? Two people dead in one night... Whether the guilty party succeeds or not, though, is up to the rest of you." Fifteen Survivors remain. However many will be down by the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[happysweets]

Oh, I get it! Okay, okay, with that, then, here's Misa-Misa's theory. So the killer pushed Tarrlok down the stairs. Then Lynne, on the first floor, found the body and started to investigate. And the killer's hiding upstairs! So Lynne sees the killer in the middle of her investigation, and there's a chase all the way up to the dojo! And that's where stuff happened! Does that seem believable?

[garudynamic]

[He nods]

There's no other real explanation for killing two people- if they were after detectives they might have tried for you or Bruce too. So most likely Lynne showed up on accident.

But even if she was lured out it comes to the same ending.

[garudynamic]

All I can think is that the bleach was used to destroy something on her body. I couldn't find anything though.

[goodforsomething]

...I'd drop the shit and try anyway, but good point. We were talkin' about him carrying the chemicals.

If Lynne was checkin' out his body, she might've picked 'em all up and set 'em aside like we found 'em.

[garudynamic]

Maybe. Like a struggle? But Lynne didn't have a scratch on her- she wasn't super big, but a cop would know how to defend herself. I doubt someone could have subdued her unless it was a blitz attack. And then the dojo wouldn't be wreaked like it was.

[uro_cyon]

Depends on how good your instincts and reflexes are.

[amygdalae]

[Bruce sort of brought it up before, but...]

If detective Lynne did indeed find the body early, then why was the announcement not sounded for the rest of us?

[happysweets]

Ehh...that's true, Misa-Misa guesses. She wasn't hurt or anything...so maybe the culprit is the one who was caught in that struggle?

[ Is it wound check time? ]

[ratingspoint]

A politician with his arms full of chemicals is what we're looking at, so...

[happysweets]

That's a pretty good question, actually...

[ratingspoint]

There we go.

[...]

Although that...doesn't sound right either, now that I think about it? There was glitter everywhere, and that probably didn't come from Lynne...

[isafraid]

I see, it's possible someone's got to have at least a bruise from that struggle. If that's the case.

[...stripping time, again?]

[amygdalae]

That's usually how it goes, doesn't it? Somebody finds a body, and the rest of us are informed.

[garudynamic]

...actually I wonder. We haven't asked why Tarrlok was awake at all. He's been a mess lately maybe he was the one that messed up the dojo. It might not have had anything to do with the killing at all.

And it can't hurt to check. Not like any of us are body shy by now.

[penduli]

[ speak for yourself, yosuke. ]

PAGING km!

[garudynamic]

It didn't sound till we found Lynne dead even.

Hey, Kingmaker! What's the rules for when the alarm goes off?

[captainobnoxious]

And if she did touch them like that, there would've been some on or around her too.

[... Why can't things just be literally cut and dry like they used to be.]

[happysweets]

Just out of stress again? If that's true, it sounds like he had a little bit of a rough night, between that and the chemicals...

[notjustawriter]

Maybe a certain number is needed?

[isafraid]

And it wasn't ingested...

Maybe it was meant to blind her.

[goodforsomething]

Nah, and if she'd touched them some would've gotten on her hands too...

[Glitter gets everywhere, he knows]

[amygdalae]

A certain number of people to see the victim?

[...but why would that even be needed.]

[goodforsomething]

He's been havin' a lotta those.

[ratingspoint]

It's a bit hard to get that much glitter off of anything, sweetheart, and if there was that much transfer they'd be there all night trying. But that's a good point anyway.

[isafraid]

Well the bloody lot of us had seen Tarrlok's body by the time we found Lynne!