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

[amygdalae]

We're know that they're durable, but there has to be a reason why hers isn't functioning right now.

[cherryblooded]

Just the top, Black. It'll be fine.

[Nope.]

[trustharder]

[...Yosuke. Buddy. Pal. Speedwagon does have the toolkit right over th-

Okay, you know what, sure, go ahead and try to unscrew it. The battery's still there, though.]

[amygdalae]

More or less.

[Something to keep in mind, certainly.]

[notjustawriter]

It must have gotten broken somehow.

[cherryblooded]

Hm.

Well, it can't be because she's dead, we've gotten into dead people's rooms before.

[trustharder]

[It's on the head of it, no blood on the handle end.]

[amygdalae]

Yes, if they started at the same time. Which more or less renders my own question moot.

[pokexplorer]

I do wonder what they intended to use it for, then? Naturally it has many uses, but...if they wanted to clean up, there is plenty of water around. It was even found in the restroom.

[garudynamic]

[LOOK USUALLY THOSE THINGS DON'T HAVE TINY LITTLE SCREWDRIVERS OKAY look it's Yoosk he dumb]

Okay, so they didn't take out the battery.

[He pops it out and does a quick pat around for moisture and any obvious damage just in case before putting it down]

So something else fried it.

[isafraid]

....That would be a different way to start these terrible trials off, that's for certain.

[notjustawriter]

[.......]

Maybe it's another red herring, like the murder weapons?

[amygdalae]

It could be just to throw us off, like with so many other things in here.

[And if really is linked, it'll eventually rear its head again.]

[captainobnoxious]

Well, this might've caused her head to cave in, but it didn't do the stabby part.

[Brilliant, Sigrun.]

[trustharder]

[Yeah, it's. Kinda wet in there, I'm just a tool and somehow didn't note this, god I'm sorry]

[garudynamic]

[No worries bro]

Okay yeah, someone dunked this thing. It's a little brick, no way water would get in it unless it was submerged... and they didn't close her door so no way they were trying to keep us out.

I was thinking, I wonder if the killer was trying to hide something on her phone?

[amygdalae]

We have, yes.

[Although they're usually already opened, so...]

We've seen these devices go through a lot and they come out of it alright. Why did this particular one stop working for Aqua?

[cherryblooded]

What would he have to hide on there? It's not as though any of his own conversations are there.

[sleepingkogoro]

Hey. Do me a favor and smell it.

Check if it smells like hydrogen peroxide.

[Just in case]

[garudynamic]

Probably not, though I guess they could have talked to the KM with it during the murder if they didn't want us sniffing around theirs. But that's a stretch... maybe hiding something Aqua was talking about? It's the only real reason to fry the thing.

[amygdalae]

The puncture wounds weren't very deep - with enough force maybe the edge of it might have been the cause.

[And there was. A lot of force involved.]

[penduli]

[ nnNNNNGH ]

I'd really rather not? [ He is not a fan of showing off his absolutely nothing here. ...especially in front of a bunch of people AND YES, OUR NUMBERS OUR THINNING, BUT THERE IS STILL A GOOD NUMBER HERE. This has not magically changed over the month and a half or whatever they'been here at it!! ] I don't mind doing just arms, but...

[ ya gonna need a good reason for his torso, because I guess "someone is fucking dead, Black, and we want to make sure it isn't your doing" isn't good enough— ]

i love paging mods so much

[garudynamic]

Huh? Oh, sure thing.

[Snort electronics Yosuke, just do it]

[pokexplorer]

Entirely possible! If it isn't, I suppose we'll figure it out...at some point.

[captainobnoxious]

I have never seen what one of these things did to something that wasn't basically already a rotting corpse, but we can go with that for now. The rest of the stuff might as well have been rolled in her blood.