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.

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[amygdalae]

[Bruce doesn't turn his gaze away from this.

It never gets easier watching any of this, but Misa made her choice, and now this is... just the price of it. It said as much in the rules, didn't it? Everyone had to take responsibility for their actions...

To his credit, he only flinches once at the first gunshot; after that he's silent as he watches everything else, only letting out a breath after Misa drops to the floor, now dead.

He only moves after the lights come back on; as everyone begins to leave once more Bruce goes around to pick up the portraits of the ones who had passed between last week and now - Norman, King, Tarrlok and Lynne. None for Misa for now, of course, but... hopefully, they'll never have a reason to come back down here again.]