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]

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?

[garudynamic]

There's plenty of places. Anywhere we have standing water. Hell, it could be a toilet.

[happysweets]

That's disgusting...

[garudynamic]

Assuming she was conscious she woulda fought too- got water all over herself. But it's just a possibility.

[happysweets]

Lots of "what if"s here, aren't there..?

[garudynamic]

Ugh, yeah. All I can think is she got bleach on her somehow, ran to get it washed off and the killer was waiting for her.

But that's a LOT of speculation.

[happysweets]

We don't even know where she died for real...it's not like there's blood or anything.

[goodforsomething]

Maybe someone used all the bleach for that? But she wasn't hurt either.

[happysweets]

Nowhere she could have bled from, nothing she could have died from except the bleach and maybe the hot air...

We can't figure out who it is unless we figure out how they did it.

[captainobnoxious]

... You know what, you're right, there wasn't any blood anywhere at either of the scenes. Except on Tarrlok's body, I mean.

Speaking of people keeling over at an early age, nearly had a heart attack myself.

[Because. Mettaton.]

[happysweets]

A heart attack...

[isafraid]

...Hmm.

[There's Speedwagon's thinking noise.]

There's the matter of that water... Maybe that was the weapon?

[garudynamic]

Yeah?

[goodforsomething]

[Stan looks at Speedwagon sharply, several things all coming together at once.]

Tarrlok. He could do that, couldn't he?

[goodforsomething]

You don't need a lotta water to drown in. But probably more than that.

[happysweets]

If there was a way we could do, like, an autopsy...

[goodforsomething]

Eeeeeeesh, don't look at me.

[happysweets]

I'm just saying! We might not be looking at a murder at all here...

[goodforsomething]

She was pretty young to just drop dead. Seemed healthy...

[happysweets]

She was doing handstands and cartwheels just a few weeks ago at Truth or Dare. And she'd need to be fit to be a cop. If she was sick, she did a really, really good job hiding it.

[ratingspoint]

[Speaking of...]

She's not old enough to just...lie down and die, is she?

[happysweets]

She was pretty young, especially for a detective!

[goodforsomething]

Nah.

[.....]

And just for future reference, I'm not that old yet either!

[ratingspoint]

You know, I was wondering...? But thanks for the info, darling!

[...NO...OFFENSE...MEANT...]