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

[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...

[captainobnoxious]

What about it?

[happysweets]

Well, she's probably too young and fit to have something like that, but...

[goodforsomething]

Was he banged up bad enough to bleed more?

[captainobnoxious]

Doesn't sound like it. Maybe like, a nosebleed from hitting the ground with his face too hard or something like that, but otherwise it's just falling down the stairs.

[amygdalae]

The only spot on his body with a substantial amount of blood was at his head. But the only injury he had there were the ones on his face that mostly likely came from having impacted against a hard surface.

[ratingspoint]

So he probably fell and caught himself. With his face.

...That would also explain the broken neck. Probably.

[isafraid]

...Hmm.

[There's Speedwagon's thinking noise.]

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

[garudynamic]

Yeah?

[isafraid]

Yeah.

[He's not sure if this actually means anything, but maybe...]

Some time ago, Tarrlok told me how people in his world could 'bend' the elements. Most people can only use one element though.

[garudynamic]

...but Tarrlok lost his powers like the rest of us that have them, right?

[isafraid]

Hard to say for certain-- a couple weeks ago, I caught him hurling a bucket of water at the elevator.

[He's not quite sure what to think of it.]

Then again, mister Kamui managed to keep a trick up his sleeve.

[goodforsomething]

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

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

[isafraid]

It's possible, he seemed like a bloke that could normally do something with that power.

[goodforsomething]

He mentioned it to me before. We were mostly talkin' about the one where people control blood.

[pokexplorer]

"Bloodbending"... It is listed under "dislikes" on his profile, isn't it?

[ratingspoint]

He can't have done anything to Lynne with it, though. Tarrlok-darling died first, remember?

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, plus he didn't have it anyway...

[notjustawriter]

When we first arrived here, he asked me about "bending", said he wasn't able to do it.