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]

Alright, so... we have two bodies this time, so we gotta focus. Who found what? Bruce, you looked over Tarrlok's body, right?

[goodforsomething]

So what, we're thinkin' only one person did this?

[Stan looks around the circle, then throws his hands up.]

What the hell?

[isafraid]

[He shoots Stan a questioning look.]

What do you mean, 'what the hell'?

[ratingspoint]

Maybe...? Who knows, maybe someone was feeling ambitious last night.

[That...probably is not the point, but.]

[captainobnoxious]

Maaaaaybe one person. Maaaaybe two people. I mean, it's not like the causes of death looked similar to me.

[one had burny water and the other was warned by a webcomic]

[sleepingkogoro]

[Mouri only realized there were two victims when Lynne was the only other person that wasn'tin the room. He takes a moment to mourn the loss of the other detective, but there was not much time for that. It was trial time]

I investigated the scene of Tarrlok's murder and...the conclusion I got to is that the body was moved. It was laid too neatly for it to have fallen down the stairs. It is possible he was killed somewhere else.

[amygdalae]

Yes.

[Hello, yes, Bruce is here and ready to give his report like a good doctor.]

I'll be listing everything I've found on the first victim that we discovered. Detective Mouri and Mr. Colress have their own things too, so I'll let them talk about it after me.

[It's kind of terrible how used they are to this by now. It's not easy, but they're... used to it.

...he'll think about that later.]

The cause of death is, in all likelihood, his broken neck. The damage done there was fatal, and there are also no other signs of injury on his body aside from bruising that seems consistent with a fall down from the stairs. The blood on him is already dry by the time of the examination, which means that the incident had taken place a good while ago.

In addition, I also found this [Holds up a small ziploc bag of glitter for everyone to see] on his body. It was pretty much everywhere on him, as far as I can tell - the glitter in here is from after I got it off my hands.

[garudynamic]

Well it's not like we plan our murders so there's no scheduling conflicts. It could easily be two people that both wanted to try to be crowned. We'll just have to see what the clues say.

[goodforsomething]

I mean, what the hell? Wasn't offin' one person enough?

[sleepingkogoro]

There could be more than one culprit, Hell, it could even be possible Tarrlok-san or...or Lynne-san is a culprit too.

[He really doesn't want to think Lynne killed Tarrlok, but it wouldn't be the first time a detective or inspector kills someone]

[happysweets]

Misa-Misa thinks there was some kind of a scuffle in the dojo! The little pad thingies that you punch and kick and stuff were thrown around everywhere, and the whole place was a mess...

[garudynamic]

So it's possible someone snapped his neck and then placed him so we'd think it was an accident?

[isafraid]

Doesn't seem that way. Looks like someone thought they had to take out two.

[prismbloom]

It's... entirely possible, I suppose. We have been in here for quite a while.

[ Cabin fever, and all that. ]

[sleepingkogoro]

B-but the body can't have fallen down the stairs! At least not where the body was found.

It could be possible he was killed in a set of stairs higher than where it was actually found, though. Not that it explains the broken neck.

[goodforsomething]

...wow, that makes it sound twice as douchey. "Crowned."

[garudynamic]

Glitter? Well hell, with all the costumes last night that coulda come from a lot of places.

[pokexplorer]

[Colress is about as solemn as he's ever been as he starts into his findings once Bruce is finished with the description of Tarrlok's body.]

I will provide some information about the scene of the body.

As you all saw, there was very little blood at the scene, but there were still some items out of place for the location. I discovered several bottles of chemicals from the laundry storage room both near the body and on the stairs. They were all sitting upright and still had liquid inside. As for their intended purpose for being there, I cannot say. It seems as though they had not been put to use.

Stranger still, just like Mr. Banner discovered on Tarrlok's body, there was glitter attached to a few of bottles, as discovered when I picked them up to examine them.

[penduli]

They might've moved him so he wouldn't be in the way of the stairs and they wouldn't have to step on him to get over him, or something like that.

[captainobnoxious]

My thoughts exactly. I'm gonna be coughing that out for the next week.

[a minor exaggeration]

[ratingspoint]

Couldn't he have broken his neck in the fall? Humans break easily in some places, and I'm pretty sure the spine is one of them.

[sleepingkogoro]

Hm. I see, I see.

[Connect the dots at the speed of light]

Tarrlok-san may have been killed in the dojo by having his neck broken. Then...he was...thrown down stairs to create those bruises and finally...he was laid in the first floor?

The bruises are what I don't understand!

[happysweets]

S-sorry! Misa-Misa might have went a little overboard with it, huh...it's a little tough to get out.

[prismbloom]

[ So that's where it went. ]

I investigated the laundry room--the one upstairs, and I noticed the chemicals were all gone. All of them--not a single bottle was left.

[ ... ]

I found something else, too. Someone used the sign-out sheet.

[amygdalae]

As you mentioned earlier, there is a high possibility that his body had indeed been moved after the deed was done. He could have easily fallen from elsewhere and then brought to where we all discovered him.