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

[pokexplorer]

Indeed... Perhaps it might be best to focus on something else for now. We may need to come back to this later.

1/2

[cherryblooded]

Black. I know you didn't do this because there's far too much blood involved. But not everyone else in this room knows that for certain. And I'd rather you not come under too much suspicion for protesting too much.

[amygdalae]

[A nod.]

We'll get back to it when we have to.

2/2

[cherryblooded]

Take it off or I'll do it for you.

[amygdalae]

Agreed.

[trustharder]

[It...sort of does? In a weird residual sort of way that might imply someone was handling hydrogen peroxide and then the phone, not in a "this was straight-up submerged in that stuff because somebody was trying to bleach their phone for some inexplicable reason" sort of way.]

[garudynamic]

Yeah, a little. But not a lot. So they might had smelly hands while working on it.

[While he has the thing open he looks around to see if the phone has a SIM card or other memory storage he can take out. He doubts it, with how secretive the KM is, but you never know!]

[notjustawriter]

If it's true, the killer sure went to a lot of trouble to hide the real murder weapon.

[trustharder]

[It does not.]

[penduli]

[ HE'S BEING BULLIED... NOTHING HAS CHANGED FROM HIS CHILDHOOD... ]

Y...yes, Mr. Cherryblod. [ ughh this is so bad... :'| Off goes his stupid sweater, and... after a hesitant moment, he'll unbutton his shirt and carefully lay that on the podium in front of him, too. No visible wounds! He's clean.

Though embarrassed as fuck, which is nice and visible because his blush actually extends very nicely to his shoulders. ]

...can I put my clothes back on now?

[garudynamic]

[Oh really... does it look like it *should* and was removed, or just isn't part of the phone at all?]

[cherryblooded]

Yes, you may. Thank you for cooperating.

[Everything is fine here.]

[pokexplorer]

[Huh! Well that came up again quicker than he thought it would.]

If anything, it tells us that someone actually used the peroxide...though not necessarily on the device, of course.

[trustharder]

[Just not part of the phone design! Sorry, bro.]

[penduli]

[ THANK GOODNESS okay he's never yanked on his shirt and buttoned it up faster in his entire fucking life. ]

[garudynamic]

[Good to know, but like I said, he didn't expect much else]

[amygdalae]

That means that the restroom is heavily tied in to what might have happened.

[sleepingkogoro]

Yes, it seems it wasn't a red herring of sorts.

Now that I think about it, the location fot the peroxide is worth noting. It was found in a women's restroom, wasn't it? Could it be possible the location was some sort of...framing attempt against the last female person among us?

[Either that or Aqua for some reason went to a bathroom to use peroxide for something. That doesn't seem likely]

[garudynamic]

Yeah, but they definitely used it in a way that woulda gotten on their skin.

[garudynamic]

Yeah, but we know Sigrun wouldn't know enough about phones to know how to kill it.

[cherryblooded]

Either that, or they for some reason thought we would refuse to go in the women's restroom during a murder investigation just because most of us are men.

[As though he'd avoid it just because of a reason like that.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan's got a few more layers to get through, but he has no problem with being shirtless. No wounds here.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Wow, she upgraded to possible framing. You have come a long way since implying her for murder the first round.]

Maybe. I mean, I do like the music room too, it's one of my favorite places to be.

... Or, well, was.

[isafraid]

Or it was the closest place to hide some evidence?

[....But Speedwagon is a gentleman, just saying.]

[captainobnoxious]

If you dunk anything electric into water it dies.

[SHE KNOWS THAT MUCH.]