Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And once the allotted time for investigating comes to a close, those elevator doors at the end of the first-floor corridor open up; the ride down is fast, smooth, and understandably tense as far as atmosphere goes. You're down to less than half of your original number. The doors slide open and the podium circle comes into view, standing stark against the black-walled courtroom and encircling that pit in the center; Misa and Aqua have joined the ranks of the deceased, photographs in greyscale watching the proceedings from their podiums draped in black. Of course and as always, the deceased aren't the only ones watching; the Kingmaker will make his presence known once everyone has settled at their podium, his voice sounding out through the room for all to hear. "Resilient has been taken from you. Maybe this time the guilty party will actually succeed at fulfilling Rule Seven, seeing as this is the sixth try and all. Whether they manage it is up to the rest of you." Thirteen Survivors remain. However many will be down by the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[trustharder]

[...I. You.

What.



...O...kay we're just gonna smell Aqua's clothes apparently no they don't smell like peroxide and every single one of you needs to go to church

just

all of y'all need to let the lord into your hearts]

[amygdalae]

[Nothing here either. But probably lots of blood since Bruce was hovering over Aqua's head injury for a very long while.]

[goodforsomething]

[No, but I'm so pleased that this is happening]

[sleepingkogoro]

No peroxide on the clothes. I better not have to do something like this ever again.

[Mouri kind of hates you for making him smell a dead nineteen year old's blood-covered clothes, Gabriel. Let this glare tell you that]

[ratingspoint]

...Can you actually do that normally?

[the fuck kind of magic]

[penduli]

[ Nope, but also, why is he suffering so many humiliating injustices today? Is this karma coming back to bite him in the ass? ]

[notjustawriter]

[No, not here.

This is really awkward.]

[uro_cyon]

[ A small sigh but nope, no wounds here either.]

[pokexplorer]

[Nothing here!

...We sure are doing this.]

[amygdalae]

...thank you for checking for us, detective.

[It's okay Mouri... it was for solving the murder...]

[isafraid]

[I... actually don't know how to answer this.

No? Probably not. I mean he was handling Aqua's device so there might be the barest scent of it?]

...Ah! This reminds me. [Once more, Speedwagon produces the toolbox.]

Found this under the piano, not a spec of blood on it. Might be worth a smell?

[ratingspoint]

[Smells like Mettaton.

...Also peroxide, incidentally. Not strongly or anything, but.]

paging mods

[cherryblooded]

Might as well.

[At least sniffing toolboxes is not as awkward as smelling people!

Any peroxide scent?]

[cherryblooded]

[Stops where he is with a very blank look on his face.]

Sigrun, did Mettaton investigate the bathroom with you?

[trustharder]

[Nope, the box is clear.]

[captainobnoxious]

Nope.

[...]

Why?

[cherryblooded]

Nothing on this.

[ratingspoint]

I'm right here, you know.

[garudynamic]

[Nope, other then maybe a very faint transfer from the phone]

[isafraid]

[look it's Jojo's bizarre adventure not Jojo's completely average day at home]

Bit of a skill I picked up along the way! When you get to be a people person like I have, you learn some things.

[cherryblooded]

That's definitely peroxide.

Not a lot of it, but...

...Mettaton?

[amygdalae]

[What is going on here.]

[isafraid]

Damn. Strange it was underneath the piano though.

[ratingspoint]

Yes, sweetheart?

[cherryblooded]

Why do you smell like peroxide right now?