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

[goodforsomething]

So what, we're thinkin' only one person did this?

[Stan looks around the circle, then throws his hands up.]

What the hell?

[isafraid]

[He shoots Stan a questioning look.]

What do you mean, 'what the hell'?

[goodforsomething]

I mean, what the hell? Wasn't offin' one person enough?

[isafraid]

Doesn't seem that way. Looks like someone thought they had to take out two.

[ratingspoint]

Maybe...? Who knows, maybe someone was feeling ambitious last night.

[That...probably is not the point, but.]

[captainobnoxious]

Maaaaaybe one person. Maaaaybe two people. I mean, it's not like the causes of death looked similar to me.

[one had burny water and the other was warned by a webcomic]

[garudynamic]

Well it's not like we plan our murders so there's no scheduling conflicts. It could easily be two people that both wanted to try to be crowned. We'll just have to see what the clues say.

[prismbloom]

It's... entirely possible, I suppose. We have been in here for quite a while.

[ Cabin fever, and all that. ]

[isafraid]

It's a terrible thought.

[But totally possible, nevertheless.

Yeeeesh.]

[goodforsomething]

...wow, that makes it sound twice as douchey. "Crowned."

[prismbloom]

It... does sound rather self-important.

[sleepingkogoro]

There could be more than one culprit, Hell, it could even be possible Tarrlok-san or...or Lynne-san is a culprit too.

[He really doesn't want to think Lynne killed Tarrlok, but it wouldn't be the first time a detective or inspector kills someone]

[notjustawriter]

This is disgusting.