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

[amygdalae]

[Bruce sort of brought it up before, but...]

If detective Lynne did indeed find the body early, then why was the announcement not sounded for the rest of us?

[happysweets]

That's a pretty good question, actually...

[amygdalae]

That's usually how it goes, doesn't it? Somebody finds a body, and the rest of us are informed.

PAGING km!

[garudynamic]

It didn't sound till we found Lynne dead even.

Hey, Kingmaker! What's the rules for when the alarm goes off?

[kingmakereffect]

Normally it's whenever three people have found the body. This was a bit of a special case though. In cases with multiple bodies, it's when all the bodies have been seen by at least three people.

[goodforsomething]

...so say two people and the killer walk in on a body...

[THIS JUST SEEMS LIKE IT'D BE GOOD TO KNOW]

[kingmakereffect]

Hopefully you haven't lost your ability to count. That's still three people.

[garudynamic]

Well, it won't help us much now, but it's good to know just in case.

[isafraid]

Seems it doesn't matter who the three people are. Damn...

[goodforsomething]

[.......raising double birds at the ceiling, but thanks for the answer.]

[garudynamic]

So it was Cherry, Speedwagon and Sigrun that found Lynne. But by the time the alarm went off we all had seen Tarrlok so there's no way to know when it would have gone off for him. Damn.

But at least that explains why Lynne wouldn't have set the alarm off.

Oh! Does the killer count in the three people?

[kingmakereffect]

[Apparently!]

[notjustawriter]

Maybe a certain number is needed?

[amygdalae]

A certain number of people to see the victim?

[...but why would that even be needed.]

[isafraid]

Well the bloody lot of us had seen Tarrlok's body by the time we found Lynne!

[goodforsomething]

So I guess it goes off when we've found 'em all. But there would've only been one for her to find then, so it still should've.

[amygdalae]

And just as Hanamura said, the announcement only came after you guys found her in the sauna.

[isafraid]

Then... we only hear them after all the bodies have been found!

[notjustawriter]

That doesn't bode well.

[isafraid]

[NOPE! it does not!]

It's a bloody awful way to get us to have a look around.

[amygdalae]

[...yeah, Bruce can see how people can potentially make use of this information.]

Would have been helpful to know this earlier.

[notjustawriter]

It usually goes off after more than one person sees the body, doesn't it?

[amygdalae]

We're all usually altogether when it happens, so its hard to be certain.

[isafraid]

...If it's anything, just three of us found Lynne. Myself, Captain Eide, and Mister Cherryblod.

[amygdalae]

So there's a requirement of three...?

[guess they have their answer.]