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

[ratingspoint]

...That would actually narrow down who could have done this quite a bit, wouldn't it. Tarrlok-darling wasn't a small man. In the best of ways, of course! But it isn't like most of us could carry him.

[happysweets]

Wasn't he the biggest one here..?

[prismbloom]

He was. It would take someone with incredible strength to move him.

[happysweets]

Well, at least that lets a few of us off the hook for Tarrlok's murder, if we assume he was moved after all!

[ratingspoint]

He was! So unless someone else here is secretly something unnatural, we've got a narrow set to choose from.

[happysweets]

Let's hope that isn't the case, right?

[ratingspoint]

[...you know, between the vampire, the mermaid, the literal god, and fucking everything that Norman Bates decided to be- ]

Actually. My hopes aren't high.

[happysweets]

People do tend to love their secret identities here, don't they?

[ratingspoint]

We're four for four right now, sweetheart!

[goodforsomething]

It's a tough habit to kick!

[captainobnoxious]

Those stairs are a pretty straight way down, in my opinion. If someone, say, was pushed from a certain amount of floors up, couldn't nature just take its course?

[happysweets]

Misa-Misa's not all that curious about falling down them and trying it herself...

[captainobnoxious]

It's too bad we couldn't just use one of the bodies as a test dummy.

[happysweets]

We could always volunteer Mr. Kingmaker.

[captainobnoxious]

You are coming in hot today, Misa, I guess even the sweetest looking person's got her spiteful side.

I like it.

[happysweets]

Well, he's gotta take responsibility too one way or another!

[isafraid]

[what are you people talking about]

Can't say that would work... but it would be worth the ask.