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

[garudynamic]

[So if it's not ID recognizing...]

Still, that means someone broke it without smashing it. Water maybe? Or they took the battery out? These kinda phones can be really touchy. Hey Speedwagon, toss it over.

[He loves ya bro, but he doubt you'd even know where to start looking]

[notjustawriter]

Points for originality?

[ratingspoint]

Anything you'd like, sweetheart, you know I don't mind.

[amygdalae]

[Pokemon stop being weird.]

Even if they treated themselves, it wouldn't really change anything. The wound would still be there.

[captainobnoxious]

I mean, besides the fact we can only call and text him? And that anyone can turn them on? I don't know what else this thing could possibly do.

[isafraid]

Still... it's a bloody awful thing to do. Not many people would even think about wanting to mess around with a dead lady.

[this whole thing's nuts, okay?]

[cherryblooded]

...strip search again?

[captainobnoxious]

See, we really should just walk in here as bare as the day we were born.

[pokexplorer]

Of course. There is no covering it up, even if they wanted to be conscientious about keeping it clean.

[amygdalae]

[A nod.]

Its quite plausible.

{Maybe the person was even banking on that.]

[cherryblooded]

Couldn't hurt, I'm sure.

[Cherryblod's shrugging off his suit jacket and then pulling off his shirt - he has no visible wounds.]

[sleepingkogoro]

Let's not turn this room into a nudist colony, thank you.

[what is up with strip searches all the time damn it]

[notjustawriter]

It can also be used to clean up blood stains-- maybe it was used to clean up her body?

[amygdalae]

[Bruce raises a shoulder in a brief shrug.]

Something that could show that it was used as the weapon, perhaps.

[He assumes Sigrun would know how to determine something like that, since she's military.]

[pokexplorer]

Agreed.

[HONESTLY...

He almost wishes he hadn't brought up the possible injury. He should have known this might happen.]

[isafraid]

Uh, right! Catch!

[Yeah he's... kind of lost. Completely lost, if we're being honest.

But hey, he's got a good throwing arm. Think fast, Yosuke. He's trusting you to figure out this mysterious little brick.]

[sleepingkogoro]

...this is turning into a staple in these trials, isn't it?

[As usual, you may see arms and torso. It seems Mouri doesn't have wounds or bruises of any kind]

[amygdalae]

[BRUCE DIDN'T MEAN TO LEAD THEM TO THIS.]

...I'd rather have some semblance of privacy left.

[cherryblooded]

If you have any better way to determine whether someone is injured, by all means share it.

[amygdalae]

So it wouldn't make sense for the person to use it on themselves.

paging mods

[garudynamic]

[He snags it out of the air, turning it over in his hands.]

Okay, so if this is anything like the phones in my world the battery should be on the inside. If it was dunked in water it might still be damp on the inside too.

[He digs through his little bag and pulls out, hilariously, the gold and silver earrings he borrowed from Mettaton waaay back before the first trial. They might be small enough to use as impromptu screwdrivers for bitty screws]

Oh man, please don't fry me.

EY MODS

[captainobnoxious]

[do you think her military uses wrenches as weaponry, bruce

like in a quick pinch maybe but she's stabby stabby and bang bang not smashy smashy that's your job]

... Sure. No problem.

[So. The blood is smeared on the wrench, but where on the wrench? Head? Handle?]

[amygdalae]

...maybe.

[A pause.]

Using hydrogen peroxide on bare skin does cause a temporary whitening - but if enough time passed between that being used on her and us discovering the body, then it wouldn't matter anyway.

[penduli]

[ ...is this one of those where he can get out of it again because he doesn't handle blood well and christ there sure was a fuckton of blood— ]

[notjustawriter]

Sounds like a possibility we can't discount.