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

[captainobnoxious]

You are coming in hot today, Misa, I guess even the sweetest looking person's got her spiteful side.

I like it.

[goodforsomething]

It's a tough habit to kick!

[sleepingkogoro]

Idiot...did you think the culprit wrote a note saying it was an accident and then decided to burn it?

[...no, that won't fly]

I think it is more likely that paper is from something like, I don't know, the secrets the Kingmaker gave a week or so ago.

[pokexplorer]

Heavy cleaning solutions, such as bleach. They are very strong and corrosive. That is why Aqua and I made a list of them to keep track of.

[goodforsomething]

[Does the handwriting seem to match Tarrlok's note from the last afterparty?]

[isafraid]

[what are you people talking about]

Can't say that would work... but it would be worth the ask.

[amygdalae]

But if it was merely an accident, that doesn't explain why the body was even moved in the first place.

[Since its at least clear that the position he was found it definitely didn't come from a fall down the stairs.]

There's also too many gaps to make it concrete.

[Actually, wait--]

Can I see the paper?

[prismbloom]

It seems Stan is confirming that.

[captainobnoxious]

[-- OH OH]

The burny water! We found that with Lynne's body!

[happysweets]

How could you tell she didn't drink it..? She didn't have any burns or anything in her mouth?

[prismbloom]

Corrosive enough to do some serious damage to a human's skin, too.

[trustharder]

[It does!]

[garudynamic]

None. Trust me, I thought she was forced to drink if our had it poured down her throat too.

[prismbloom]

The burny--

[ sigrun ]

It's likely it was bleach, then.

[amygdalae]

As far as I could tell, there weren't any signs of alcohol on him--but it has been a past a night. If he did drink, we probably can't tell without the necessary equipment.

[Equipment that they obviously don't have.]

[happysweets]

Well, he's gotta take responsibility too one way or another!

[pokexplorer]

[Burny water.]

You- you did?

In what way? Was any of it used?

[goodforsomething]

Hey! There's no reason to snap at the kid.

[TWINS GOTTA STICK TOGETHER in the absence of their actual twins and/or a good relationship with them, lawl]

[isafraid]

Right. She was face down. And despite the sauna not looking like it was used, there was water all around miss detective.

[penduli]

[ Because no one wants to step on a dead body, guys!! Oh my god.

But yes, Black'll go carefully deliver these scraps. Be careful; they are pretty heavily singed, and that makes it pretty hard to read. ]

Here you are, Mr. Banner.

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, this looks like his handwriting...still coulda been faked, I guess, but if it is whoever did it's good.

[captainobnoxious]

All of it was used.

[captainobnoxious]

The water, for the record, was perfectly safe to touch.

[goodforsomething]

You want this sign-out sheet too?

[Might be good to compare, they both include the same word and everything]

[ratingspoint]

...Maybe someone was investigating.

[Mettaton, what- ]

Wasn't the body moved a bit? Maybe someone found it before we did and was looking it over. Making notes for later.