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

[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.

[amygdalae]

[It wasn't closed?]

How big was the bottle of bleach that you found?

[captainobnoxious]

[you're asking the eloquent viking]

I don't know what your standard size bottle of bleach looks like, so I can't tell you if it was bigger than that or not, but it's pretty big.

[amygdalae]

[...he'll just assume its fairly large, then.]

If we assume that the bottle wasn't full, then perhaps there is the possibility that the smell of bleach might have already dissipated.

...but that is assuming not much was used in the first place, and its hard to confirm that.

[isafraid]

The bottle was right empty when we found it. I can't say how much was used though.

[amygdalae]

It's probably impossible to determine, but its something to keep in mind, should we come back to it again.

[sleepingkogoro]

Did you try smelling the burns?

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

[captainobnoxious]

Why would I do that?