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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.

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[Colress is about as solemn as he's ever been as he starts into his findings once Bruce is finished with the description of Tarrlok's body.]

I will provide some information about the scene of the body.

As you all saw, there was very little blood at the scene, but there were still some items out of place for the location. I discovered several bottles of chemicals from the laundry storage room both near the body and on the stairs. They were all sitting upright and still had liquid inside. As for their intended purpose for being there, I cannot say. It seems as though they had not been put to use.

Stranger still, just like Mr. Banner discovered on Tarrlok's body, there was glitter attached to a few of bottles, as discovered when I picked them up to examine them.

Edited 2016-04-02 16:20 (UTC)

[ So that's where it went. ]

I investigated the laundry room--the one upstairs, and I noticed the chemicals were all gone. All of them--not a single bottle was left.

[ ... ]

I found something else, too. Someone used the sign-out sheet.

...people actually use that?

I'm more surprised by that than any murder.

Who?

[A valuable clue! Reveal away, Aqua!]

[...]

Who was it?

... It was Tarrlok.

[ She even has the sheet with her! ]

Figures it'd be him.

[thanks for your contribution, sigrun]

[What.]

Is the sheet with you? [What is he asking, of course she has it.] Can we take a look at it?

Of course.

[ She pulls it out, passing it around for everyone to see. ]

Can someone verify if that's actually his handwriting?

I might be able to, lemme see it.

[You gotta be able to recognize handwriting if you're gonna forge it, lol]

[ Passing it on over to him!! ]

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

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[Colress actually kind of agrees with Sigrun. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THAT.]

Then the bottles were from him?

[He squints a bit, thinking this out as Bruce asks for the sheet.]

Hmm...

...well, his name is on the sheet, the body had glitter, and there was glitter on the bottles you found, too.

The problem is what he wanted the chemicals for.

Edited 2016-04-02 16:29 (UTC)

That, and I am also considering the bottles themselves.

Not all of them had glitter on them, and they looked as though they were neatly placed. That is to say, if he had actually fallen down the stairs with them in hand, wouldn't they be scattered all over the place?