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

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.]

[amygdalae]

[He's right here with you, Stan. Except without the bird flipping.]

[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!]