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

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[amygdalae]

Thank you.

[He will be the most gentle, don't worry--and now Bruce will make a valiant attempt to look at the pieces and see if there's anyway to recognize the handwriting, or if its too singed to really be able to make out anything.]

[trustharder]

[Well, it certainly doesn't match Tarrlok's, but that's a given.

It does match somebody else's, though. Misa's.]

[amygdalae]

[...considering the last time he saw Misa's handwriting was last night...]

...this isn't Mister Tarrlok's handwriting, as far as I can tell.

[But what does this even mean...]

[goodforsomething]

It'd be kinda weird if it was. Does it look like anybody else's?

[amygdalae]

Yes.

[AND JUST... going to slowly look at Misa here.]

It's... Miss Misa's.

[goodforsomething]

[Also...turning to look at Misa.]

[happysweets]

U-uwaah?! B-but...I didn't write it!

[amygdalae]

It's hard to forget your handwriting - especially considering the crossword and invitation in this last week. I'm quite positive this handwriting here is yours.

[HE DOESN'T WANT TO SUSPECT HER, BUT... THIS NEEDS SOME EXPLAINING.]

[goodforsomething]

Well...I ain't sayin' this happened. But if you were gonna forge someone's handwriting around here, she'd be a good bet. Like you said, we've got a lotta samples.

[prismbloom]

It would have to be someone with a careful eye and hand. Is there anyone with a talent for forging signatures?

[captainobnoxious]

I don't think they'd come out willingly about that, Aqua, if we've got it on the table.

[prismbloom]

I'm not saying they would--it would be more surprising if they did. It's more that I was thinking out loud.

[amygdalae]

None that instantly comes to mind.

[And really, who would admit that?]

But as you said, anybody with a good eye and hand could probably be able to do it, too.

[happysweets]

T-that's true! And it's not like they didn't have time! Misa-Misa sent out those things on Tuesday, and she's wrote a bunch of stuff all throughout the weeks. And it's not exactly like it's all that hard to copy, I mean, Misa-Misa doesn't write in fancy script or anything...

[isafraid]

There would be no small amount of things to copy off of, at the least.

[notjustawriter]

[...Also staring at Misa now.]

[captainobnoxious]

[... Sigrun's also going to look over at her.]

Her? You're sure?

[pokexplorer]

[Also staring...

Colress can't say he expected this.]

[isafraid]

[He glances at Misa, but it's not long before his attention snaps back.]

...Not like we can say for certain just yet, right?

[prismbloom]

[ ... ]

It does, actually.

[sleepingkogoro]

Really? So it was faked!

[notjustawriter]

......what makes you think it was faked?

[sleepingkogoro]

I had the wrong idea about it.

[amygdalae]

I only said it wasn't his handwriting. I never said that it was fake.

[sleepingkogoro]

I had the impression it was likely Tarrlok-san could have written that burned note at some point in the past

After all it didn't make sense for anyone else to have written something about Tarrlok just to burn it. Maybe someone could have tried to get rid of something Tarrlok wrote at some point.

But it seems you have debunked that theory.