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

[amygdalae]

Yes.

[AND JUST... going to slowly look at Misa here.]

It's... Miss Misa's.

[penduli]

It sort of is. I'm not really sure why people get going to it first chance they get—it's really obvious when it's in use, since it gets pretty warm around there, and it takes forever to start up in the first place.

[ Thankfully for Mr. Sucks At Smalltalk over here, it doesn't take forever to cool down to a reasonable temperature. ]

[prismbloom]

[ ... ]

It does, actually.

[amygdalae]

I only said it wasn't his handwriting. I never said that it was fake.

[goodforsomething]

[Also...turning to look at Misa.]

[isafraid]

It should be rather easy to burn away a few papers anyway.

[happysweets]

U-uwaah?! B-but...I didn't write it!

[notjustawriter]

[...Also staring at Misa now.]

[captainobnoxious]

[... Sigrun's also going to look over at her.]

Her? You're sure?

[pokexplorer]

[Also staring...

Colress can't say he expected this.]

[garudynamic]

There wasn't enough water there to drown her, but at this point unless someone had poison I have no idea how else she could have died.

[sleepingkogoro]

I had the impression it was likely Tarrlok-san could have written that burned note at some point in the past

After all it didn't make sense for anyone else to have written something about Tarrlok just to burn it. Maybe someone could have tried to get rid of something Tarrlok wrote at some point.

But it seems you have debunked that theory.

[amygdalae]

It's hard to forget your handwriting - especially considering the crossword and invitation in this last week. I'm quite positive this handwriting here is yours.

[HE DOESN'T WANT TO SUSPECT HER, BUT... THIS NEEDS SOME EXPLAINING.]

[sleepingkogoro]

I had the wrong idea about it.

[goodforsomething]

Didn't I hear about some people gettin' arsenic outta the machine?

[garudynamic]

...crap, really?! How would we even be able to test for that...?

[notjustawriter]

....Christ, that's horrible to think about.

[isafraid]

[He glances at Misa, but it's not long before his attention snaps back.]

...Not like we can say for certain just yet, right?

[goodforsomething]

No idea.

[goodforsomething]

Well...I ain't sayin' this happened. But if you were gonna forge someone's handwriting around here, she'd be a good bet. Like you said, we've got a lotta samples.

[penduli]

We wouldn't be able to. [ Don't got the resources or the time. ] Arsenic poisoning has a lot of... unfortunate side-effects that go with it though, aside from the whole "dying" thing, so it'd be pretty obvious if anyone had it.

[pokexplorer]

Indeed. Her body would be a wreck, to put it lightly.

[garudynamic]

...okay, good. That's one thing we don't have to worry about.

[THANK YOU FOR BLOCKING THIS THOUGHT PROCESS BEFORE IT STARTS BLACK]

[prismbloom]

It would have to be someone with a careful eye and hand. Is there anyone with a talent for forging signatures?

[isafraid]

Seems like that machine's spitting out worse and worse things by the day.