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

[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.

[garudynamic]

So you think he'd be the type to use water against someone?

[isafraid]

I'd bet money on it!

[His whole thing seemed like it would be water.

Not to judge a person by their appearance...]

Course, there's the matter of the fact that he couldn't use it here.

[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?

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, he said it's illegal. Sounded pretty freaky, too!

[happysweets]

So...do you think he can use it to manipulate how wet a person's blood is?

[goodforsomething]

...well, probably not here. But maybe in general?

It sounded more to me like it was for controllin' people's bodies.

[happysweets]

H-how scary..!

[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.