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]

... 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...

[captainobnoxious]

She could've, huh. Like if someone scared her bad enough? I didn't really take her for the faint hearted though.

[happysweets]

Me neither! More like the opposite. But I guess anything's possible..?

[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.

[amygdalae]

Probably. The possibility is there.

[goodforsomething]

Isn't that kinda weird? Most people would try to catch themselves like this if they fell - [Stan holds his arms out.] - instead of just eatin' it.

[ratingspoint]

[Actually...]

...Even if your hands are occupied?

[goodforsomething]

...I'd drop the shit and try anyway, but good point. We were talkin' about him carrying the chemicals.

If Lynne was checkin' out his body, she might've picked 'em all up and set 'em aside like we found 'em.

[ratingspoint]

There we go.

[...]

Although that...doesn't sound right either, now that I think about it? There was glitter everywhere, and that probably didn't come from Lynne...

[captainobnoxious]

And if she did touch them like that, there would've been some on or around her too.

[... Why can't things just be literally cut and dry like they used to be.]

[goodforsomething]

Nah, and if she'd touched them some would've gotten on her hands too...

[Glitter gets everywhere, he knows]

[uro_cyon]

Depends on how good your instincts and reflexes are.

[ratingspoint]

A politician with his arms full of chemicals is what we're looking at, so...