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

[garudynamic]

[HUffhuff!]

Yeah well my hair isn't important right now!

[amygdalae]

...she must have had some very good pain tolerance or just an amazing amount of determination to withstand that.

[Because... yeah, having it poured on you certainly is Not Fun.]

[captainobnoxious]

"Looking nice" only works so well until you're dead and then no one cares.

[prismbloom]

That's true. His hair does look nice.

[ Even if it's a LIE. ]

[penduli]

Aren't all of your fawns infected, Miss Sigrun?

[garudynamic]

[Thank you Black ; 3;]

[happysweets]

Uwaah! So they used Misa-Misa's handwriting to lure him out?

[amygdalae]

[...!]

What if the note was used to call for Detective Lynne?

[garudynamic]

It won't KILL ME!

[Maybe blind him horribly, but that's all?!]

[penduli]

We still dress the dead in nice clothes so they look good for the afterlife, wherever they might be going, so... yes, people still care.

[sleepingkogoro]

That is...not a bad idea. 'Tarrlok, there has been an accident, come help'. It would explain why it would be burned, if anyone recognized Misa-chan wrote it then she would be immediately the prime suspect.

Supposing she is the culprit, of course.

[penduli]

Right. That's true for pretty much anything you put your mind to.

[captainobnoxious]

Thankfully not! You can tell because of their eyes, but it's not like the animals born infected. They just become it.

[captainobnoxious]

It's going to seep into your brain.

[goodforsomething]

[Not. Saying. A. Word.]

[garudynamic]

...aw. Thanks Aqua.

[pokexplorer]

To claim that Tarrlok was involved in an accident? Then his body certainly couldn't have been at the bottom of the stairs at the time if Lynne went all the way upstairs...

[captainobnoxious]

... You guys really should just burn them. It's way easier.

[happysweets]

Lynne and Misa-Misa are good friends! If she saw a note that looked like I wrote it, I'm sure she'd come running!

[sleepingkogoro]

That is another possibility.

The note was either intended to be for Tarrlok or it was about Tarrlok.

I suppose the only way to know for sure is to know who died first.

[garudynamic]

That's not a thing that happens.

[isafraid]

[you think this hair is any better

try getting it into a ponytail.]

[penduli]

[ oh ew. ]

That's... good to hear.

[isafraid]

It could do that?

[happysweets]

...But nobody's perfect, so, why practice?