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

[garudynamic]

Still dunno WHY though... but maybe she was wet cuz the killer tried to flush the bleach out?

...or maybe Lynne did it to herself? I know in Chem we have that shower to rinse if we get something in our faces?

[happysweets]

Oh, oh, that's right, they always have those in the science lab! Even the little ones that squirt in your eyes!

But where would she have gotten the water from?

[garudynamic]

Dunno. I mean, we have bathrooms on every floor. But there's no shower in the sauna or anything.

Which is kinda gross, now that I think about it.

[happysweets]

There probably should be, right? I mean, instead of you having to go downstairs being all sweaty and stuff.

[ratingspoint]

[AT...RISK OF ASKING A DUMB QUESTION...]

...Why was she doing all of this in the men's sauna, of all places?

[sleepingkogoro]

Lynne-san's body was moved too, maybe?

[garudynamic]

Or she was lured or chased in there after she got soaked? Then just... leaked all over the floor?

[ratingspoint]

Why not put her in the women's, then, if that's the case? That would make more sense, if it was to look like she just-

[...just...uh...]

...How...did Lynne die, anyway?

[happysweets]

...Isn't that the question of the day?

[ratingspoint]

...Was Lynne injured at all? No one has really mentioned anything outside of the burns on her face, and unless the bleach was somehow applied directly to her brain by way of her chin I don't think that has anything to do with her actually dying.

[captainobnoxious]

That's the weird thing. I mean, a weird thing in a case of weird things. There's no other signs of injuries. Just those burns.

[ratingspoint]

So she just keeled over for no apparent reason. This is a murder...how, exactly?

[captainobnoxious]

Your guess is as good as mine, sweetheart. I kind of wish I could've just taken the first body and left the chemicaly stuff to the scientists.

[Since they know what they're talking about, apparently.]

[garudynamic]

Nope, no signs of a struggle on her. I think Speedwagon and Sigrun checked the back of her head and everything. Nothing.

[happysweets]

No injuries on her, either?

[amygdalae]

[No injuries, nothing, Lynne was in the sauna--]

...this is a stretch, but--if the sauna was on while Lynne was still alive and she was somehow trapped in there...

[happysweets]

Wouldn't she have, like, roasted to death, then?

[ratingspoint]

Incorrect - the door was open, according to Sigrun. So either someone found her first or Lynne could have left anytime she wanted.

[amygdalae]

[...yeah, they have no idea how she died, do they.]

It's clear that it wasn't from bleach; Hanamura mentioned that much.

[happysweets]

Cyanide, maybe?

[garudynamic]

Stan said that it couldn't be arsenic- I dunno about other poisons. She didn't look strangled... I dunno, Bruce, doesn't smothering leave signs too?

All I can think is that she was drowned. It'd explain why she's all wet too.

[happysweets]

Drowned in what?

[captainobnoxious]

See, that's what I want to know. We have a lot of guys, if they didn't want the body discovered why didn't they just do it in the women's?

[amygdalae]

...the sauna wouldn't be my first choice of a place to rinse off, personally.

[And the men's sauna, at that.]

[garudynamic]

Yeah, I doubt she woulda gone in there on her own.