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

[cherryblooded]

Even if all of us have missing memories?

[kingmakereffect]

As long as it's a necessity, yes.

[cherryblooded]

I see. Thank you.

[Well that was actually more helpful than anticipated.]

[happysweets]

T-that's...we don't even know if those are actually memories! T-they can't be!

[cherryblooded]

And how are you so sure about that?

[garudynamic]

...great. Now someone is gonna request a bazooka.

[cherryblooded]

I don't think you could spin a bazooka as necessary. A knife would do, or any sharp weapon, and there's certainly plenty of those around...

...unless you're terrified of them?

[happysweets]

Because if they are memories, then that means Light is dead!

[sleepingkogoro]

I don't think the Kingmaker would give anything that could help us escape. I'm pretty sure a bazooka would fit that category.

[captainobnoxious]

Honey, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they're definitely real memories. Remember that nasty wound I had when I got here? Got it protecting a non-immune.

[... Sigrun really doesn't want Misa to be suspect, but the leader part of her's driving this forward now.]

[cherryblooded]

...And you'd do anything to undo that, wouldn't you.

[He sounds a bit more sympathetic than he had been sounding.]

[garudynamic]

...it'd be pretty awesome though.

[garudynamic]

Like say if I wanted to kill someone that was scared of something specific? Or if... I was too scared to kill someone the normal way?

[happysweets]

...Oh no. Don't think that you can turn this back on Misa-Misa like that, that's not..!

[cherryblooded]

That's not quite what I meant.

Misa would never be able to use a knife to kill someone. She had enough problems with the bloodletting.

She would definitely be able to make a case for needing a different way to kill someone.

[happysweets]

B-but, there's no way of knowing if they all are..! It could have just...been a bad dream, right?

[notjustawriter]

......I'm sorry, Misa, but I doubt it.

[cherryblooded]

Miss Misa, it is your handwriting, and you are the most suspect person here.

I have nothing against you, and you can scream my secrets in this trial room if you want, but I'm not letting anyone die today but the culprit, no matter what their motives were.

[happysweets]

S-stop talking like Misa-Misa's guilty here..!

[pokexplorer]

What exactly would it be, then? If she doesn't know or remember the method this "Kira" uses, how would she know what to ask the Kingmaker for? Or if it came from the vending machine, would she recognize its capabilities straight away?

[He doesn't mean to be play devil's advocate, but...]

[happysweets]

But...L-Light, he can't be...

[ The stress of it all is enough to make her start to cry... ]

[cherryblooded]

We're only throwing around theories. Nothing more than that.

[cherryblooded]

There's a few options.

She might have remembered what it was in between the conversation we had about it and now, and simply be lying. She might have known enough to specify it in a vague sort of way. She might have gotten it from the machine and been testing it, or its function was obvious.

For all I know it comes with an instruction manual.

[garudynamic]

...if she had that kinda power though, why push Tarrlok at all? Unless the power is what made him fall or something?

[cherryblooded]

Generally it's hard to keep your balance during a heart attack.