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

[sleepingkogoro]

Here is mine.

[Mouri shows his own key]

[pokexplorer]

[Colress produces his own out of his coat pocket, where it tends to be!]

[amygdalae]

It's entirely plausible. Everything seems to suggest that much.

[cherryblooded]

Can't see the reasoning here.

[isafraid]

[nngh]

It's probable. I can say this much: that sounds like a generally awful way to go out.

[embarrassing on top of just absurd.]

[notjustawriter]

[.....ew]

Maybe the murder weapon isn't the important part to solving this.

[captainobnoxious]

Guess not? I mean, the only cleaning up I've done with it is for any wounds I got, so I don't know what you use it for outside of that.

[And boy, does she knows how to clean up with it like that.]

[goodforsomething]

She usually had her star necklace on her too, right? I found it smashed on her bed.

[He takes out a little bundle of cloth and lays it on his podium, holding up one of the larger Wayfinder shards for people to see.]

[trustharder]

[It isn't cracked.]

[garudynamic]

But why pose her like that?!

[Grossgrossgross]

Just to throw us off?

[cherryblooded]

Right. Even if it was a vending machine thing, there's no way to guarantee who has or doesn't have what. It's pointless.

[notjustawriter]

Whoever did this is a sick fuck.

[cherryblooded]

There are worse, but I understand the sentiment.

[amygdalae]

...why would her own clothes be used, though?

[That's just... strange, in the grand scheme of things that happened.]

[garudynamic]

Damn... she loved that thing. That's just cruel.

[True, it was probably smashed in the attack, not on purpose. But still]

[amygdalae]

Maybe the actual weapon has something that implicates them.

[pokexplorer]

[Hmm...]

Is it possible that the culprit got injured during the scuffle, then?

[cherryblooded]

Maybe they didn't have anything else.

The music room isn't full of cleaning materials. And I certainly wouldn't use my own clothes - so hers might have been the most convenient.

[sleepingkogoro]

...remorse, maybe?

[Judging by Mouri's expression he thinks having remorse wouldn't change a thing. A murderer is a murderer]

Redressing her and posing her on the piano doesn't hide clues or misdirect anything. Maybe the culprit regretted having attacked her so brutally and wanted to lessen the shock.

That makes it all worse, in my opinion.

[isafraid]

[He turns it over in his hands, then shakes his head.]

Not a crack on it. Only thing is, it doesn't feel like turning on when I try it.

[cherryblooded]

Possible. So do you think it's none of these?

[garudynamic]

That's what I'm thinking too. All that effort to make her look like some, what, performer? It's twisted as all hell. It's just so damn... overdramatic.

[goodforsomething]

Yeah...I'm gonna see if I can patch it up later.

[It's pretty delicate and probably deserves more than super glue, but options are limited]

[penduli]

[ Yep, Black's device is also going on his podium. No worries here. ]

[isafraid]

It's not like the list of successful murderers in this place has really gone up any.