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

[garudynamic]

[He shuffles back and forth nervously. Look man, he doesn't take confrontation well]

Well, since your rose was on your hand it'd be the easiest to cause transfer to things you picked up.

[Sorry Sigrun, he doesn't really think Mettaton did it- but he has to talk this out]

But taking off her mask could do the same thing to Misa so there's that. I'm still stumped on how Lynne actually died though- drowning is only what I'm going with cuz nothing else makes sense yet...

[ratingspoint]

Either that or it's like Mouri said - somehow she was killed with no physical contact from the culprit.

[garudynamic]

Like she just literally fell over dead.

[He's at a loss. MIND BULLETS?! Look he only knows ONE person here with that power and not only are powers borked but he's not going there ever]

[ratingspoint]

I'll volunteer two bits of information for you right now, just to get them out of the way. They'll get inconvenient for me later if they ever come up, and I like having control over my situation.

One: I'm capable of making a human being fall over dead like that when my magic is working, which it currently isn't.

Two: If it had been me, not only would I not be telling you this - it's like confessing to anything else straight-out, it's boring! - but none of us would still be in this ugly little building.

[garudynamic]

...that's kinda terrifying. But yeah, our powers are gone. I think only stuff that's like... biological doesn't count? Like Kamui being a vampire.

...but what do you mean 'none of us would be here'? If you mind crushed someone or whatever wouldn't just YOU be free?

[ratingspoint]

...Well, you being dead would also count as "not being here." If you're going to be morbid. But that wasn't what I meant.

[garudynamic]

Look man, this place MAKES you morbid. But what DO you mean?

[goodforsomething]

Think he's sayin' he would've busted us out. He tried it the first day.

[ratingspoint]

Got it in one, sweetheart!

If I had enough magic to kill her that way, then after I'd done it I'd definitely be able to manage something like that.

[garudynamic]

Ohhh, that makes sense. Just blow a hole in the place.

[happysweets]

But how is that even possible?! It wasn't like she was shot or something! The best guess Misa-Misa has is poison, but, how did she even get poisoned?

[isafraid]

Out closest bet would have to be the bleach, but it doesn't seem like it was enough for that.

...If there were other chemicals at work here, would we even know?

[happysweets]

I-I guess not, but...

[isafraid]

And there were several bottles missing...

[captainobnoxious]

Can bleach make you pass out? Because if she was awake and then she wasn't, that'd be a way to stop being awake.

[isafraid]

...Sounds about right. If it can burn your skin, I'd hate to see what it could do to your lungs.

[notjustawriter]

If breathing in bleach made her pass out, y'all should have smelled it at the crime scene.

[captainobnoxious]

Unless the door was kept open after she died to air it out. How's that theory?

[uro_cyon]

It typically doesn't dissipate that quickly, it'd take 24-48 hours most likely.

[captainobnoxious]

Huh. Last week I learned about the internet, this week I learn that oldworlders and their chemicals are definitely nothing I ever want to be interested in.

[amygdalae]

[Yes, Aiden, thank you. A nod here too.]

The smell would still probably stay - as Hanamura and I mentioned, the smell of bleach isn't easy to get rid of so quickly, even with proper ventilation.

[pokexplorer]

Should we perhaps return to the idea that the bleach was instead used in an attempt to remove something on Miss Lynne, then? Were there burns anywhere else on her? I cannot quite remember what was said.

[He looks to anyone who was investigating Lynne, since obviously Bruce was downstairs with Tarrlok.]

[notjustawriter]

It's possible, but you should still have smelled it on her at the very least.

[amygdalae]

[Nodding in agreement with Gabriel.]

It would be more than noticable,

[garudynamic]

...maybe if you got a BIG inhale of it? I don't THINK so? Maybe some of the other chemicals though?