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

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[amygdalae]

Thank you.

[He will be the most gentle, don't worry--and now Bruce will make a valiant attempt to look at the pieces and see if there's anyway to recognize the handwriting, or if its too singed to really be able to make out anything.]

[goodforsomething]

He just wasn't...really havin' a good week.

[garudynamic]

Yeah, that's very few of us. Or someone with the training to use someone's weight.

[Like Mouri-san just taught him. Not that he could see Mouri doing this, of course]

[garudynamic]

Yeah, most of us couldn't do that on our own. But it's not impossible. He was dead for awhile after all. They'd have time to lug him.

[isafraid]

Doesn't seem like it was any of that 'bleach' stuff then, did it? Otherwise we'd both probably have burns right about now.

[goodforsomething]

You're thinkin' Lynne found him?

[amygdalae]

If you don't mind.

[Thank you as well, Stan.]

[happysweets]

They'd have to be pretty dedicated, huh...

[captainobnoxious]

Right! And I used Lynne's hand to test it.

[penduli]

I honestly feel like if people were going to burn their secrets, they would've done so by now. Or, you know, eaten them or something. That's a faster way to get rid of things you don't want anyone else to know.

[ Or like, put them in the bottom of your trunk with a bunch of weapons you keep getting you have no use for. ]

[goodforsomething]

[Passing it on!]

[amygdalae]

...no, he wasn't.

[Even Bruce could see that.

What a way for him to end, huh.]

[captainobnoxious]

I ate mine. It wasn't very tasty.

... But that aside, that is a really long time to wait for the burny machine, and just to burn the note? I don't know, doesn't seem right to me.

[goodforsomething]

There's matches in storage, you'd be better off even just burnin' it yourself. That incinerator seems kinda like junk.

[garudynamic]

The water might have diluted it, but we'd smell it if it was. So I agree.

[pokexplorer]

[Colress frowns deeply at this. Tarrlok's signature on the sign-out sheet seems to be legitimate, and now there's Lynne's body with chemical burns on it...]

I see... This is certainly something to keep in mind as we move further.

How strange that only one bottle was all the way on the fifth floor, and the majority seemed to be on the first, though...

[trustharder]

[Well, it certainly doesn't match Tarrlok's, but that's a given.

It does match somebody else's, though. Misa's.]

[amygdalae]

...it's a possibility.

[But if so, then...]

Then it brings the question of why the announcement didn't happen.

[garudynamic]

Heh, yeah. Not the most effective way to do it, but if it was on the fly or something they might not have had a choice.

[amygdalae]

[...considering the last time he saw Misa's handwriting was last night...]

...this isn't Mister Tarrlok's handwriting, as far as I can tell.

[But what does this even mean...]

[ratingspoint]

I don't see why not.

[...that's probably why not.]

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah, I moved her like that. Her clothes had damage too, I guess from the burny water, and it was wet 'cause of the not-burny water. Maybe they tried forcing her to drink it and it didn't work out.

... Still don't know what could've killed her though, short of drowning. If she was knocked out.

[goodforsomething]

It'd be kinda weird if it was. Does it look like anybody else's?

[sleepingkogoro]

Really? So it was faked!

[notjustawriter]

......what makes you think it was faked?