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

[pokexplorer]

[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.]

[sleepingkogoro]

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.

[pokexplorer]

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?

[prismbloom]

That would make the most sense, wouldn't it? But why would he leave behind something so obvious if he planned on using them in a murder?

[captainobnoxious]

... So, to be clear here, what kind of chemicals were in there?

[Because when the fucking ever does Sigrun go to the modern laundry room.]

[pokexplorer]

Heavy cleaning solutions, such as bleach. They are very strong and corrosive. That is why Aqua and I made a list of them to keep track of.

[captainobnoxious]

[-- OH OH]

The burny water! We found that with Lynne's body!

[prismbloom]

The burny--

[ sigrun ]

It's likely it was bleach, then.

[pokexplorer]

[Burny water.]

You- you did?

In what way? Was any of it used?

[captainobnoxious]

All of it was used.

[pokexplorer]

[Colress frowns deeply at this. Tarrlok's signature on the sign-out sheet seems to be legitimate, and now there's Lynne's body with chemical burns on it...]

I see... This is certainly something to keep in mind as we move further.

How strange that only one bottle was all the way on the fifth floor, and the majority seemed to be on the first, though...

[prismbloom]

Corrosive enough to do some serious damage to a human's skin, too.