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

[captainobnoxious]

Say that he is and Lynne was tricked. Wouldn't someone be smelling like the burny water?

[amygdalae]

...why would you say that?

[That's... not what Bruce had been expecting.]

[captainobnoxious]

Aiming in the dark. But I mean, it is a strong smell. Couldn't it just... you know, work like that?

[amygdalae]

[Well, maybe, but...]

...its hard to say. Like what Hanamura mentioned, the smell of bleach doesn't exactly come off easy - and the amount of bleach used is rationed to how much time it needs for the smell to come off. And the three of you in the sauna didn't smell any bleach at all, I believe?

[captainobnoxious]

Nope, no strong smell in the room.

[amygdalae]

[No smell in the room...]

...I haven't really seen the sauna for myself, but I assume the room was closed before you went in and discovered the detective?

[captainobnoxious]

The door wasn't closed.

[sleepingkogoro]

Did you try smelling the burns?

[Because if there's anyone who would it is Sigrun]

[captainobnoxious]

Why would I do that?

[sleepingkogoro]

She could have been burned by a different chemical, though. It isn't 100% confirmed bleach caused the burns, after all.

Tarrlok-san's crime scene had many corrosive chemicals in bottles, any of them could have done the trick.

[happysweets]

Actually, can we ask why he had so many of those chemicals to begin with? If that sign-out sheet is true, he took them out himself...what was he planning?

[captainobnoxious]

... Cleaning?

[happysweets]

They seemed pretty heavy-duty. I don't think he'd need that many.

[prismbloom]

All of the bottles were missing. It does seem a bit excessive...

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah, well, you guys have fun figuring that out. I don't use stuff like that.

[isafraid]

...And, they were all found, weren't they?

[He doesn't know, he was spending the whole investigation staring at bleach.]

[notjustawriter]

Maybe he was stress-cleaning?

[happysweets]

He did seem a little bit stressy this week, didn't he...

[ You're one to talk, Misa ]

[isafraid]

He seemed a bit out of sorts, last time I saw him.

[goodforsomething]

He's been stressed all week. Never saw him cleaning, but he kinda seemed the type.

[captainobnoxious]

Bleach was the only one at the scene though.

[sleepingkogoro]

The chemical bottles were left where Tarrlok-san was in a way that showed those can't just have fallen around with him.

There's no harm on keeping that possibility in mind, even though there was a bleach container in Lynne-san's scene.

[pokexplorer]

The strange thing is that none of them seemed to be used just yet- they were all rather full.

[...You know...]

There is the matter of glitter as well. I imagine it could have been washed in the sauna somehow, but was there any of that at Miss Lynne's crime scene? As I said, some of the bottles downstairs has glitter on them.

[isafraid]

Not a bit of it, actually. I can't say I saw any during my time in the sauna.

[isafraid]

With an entire bottle of bleach sitting at the crime scene, I'd wager it was probably used.