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

[notjustawriter]

[....He really hates doing this.

Off his shirt comes, revealing no wounds.]

[cherryblooded]

The men's room is closer to the music hall by a bit, if I remember correctly.

[garudynamic]

Okay, fair enough.

[sleepingkogoro]

Eide-san also pointed the place smelled of peroxide. The culprit most likely used it there. What I'm not sure is what for, because it doesn't seem to have been to damage electronics or clean wounds. If it was to clean the murder weapon I don't think they would have bothered to make so many false clues.

It wouldn't be possible for anyone here to guess the weapon just from looking at the wounds unless the weapon left distinctive wounds.

[Maybe he got too tangled in his words?]

What I mean to say is that the peroxide's use may be something vital to deduce in this case.

[isafraid]

....Odd.

Would have been a bit easier to frame one of us, I'd think.

[cherryblooded]

Maybe. Though I don't know how you'd specifically implicate one of the men, unless it was through your choice of vending machine trash.

[amygdalae]

The wrench that Captain Eide found seems to be the most plausible thing right now as the weapon that was used, since that was in the restroom.

[And it wasn't rolling in blood like the other things.]

[goodforsomething]

What, do ya wanna smell everyone's hands now?

[captainobnoxious]

... I mean, I'll say what everyone is obviously thinking and that if the captain goes down, so does her ship. If they wanted to get rid of me it's not like they wouldn't have a reason for it.

[Since. They all adopted her rightly as their leader.]

And then we're looking at mutiny.

[ratingspoint]

It's actually smarter to not implicate anyone, isn't it?

[Oh, look, he's deciding to try to be useful.]

I mean, look at where we are now. We're all pretty sure it wasn't Sigrun, and that leaves us with no direction in particular. If they'd tried to frame somebody specific, there's more of a chance they'd mess up.

[sleepingkogoro]

I won't do such thing!

[If that's the plan get someone else to do it, thank you]

[cherryblooded]

Agreed. Framing someone is harder than it looks.

[He... he knows from experience.]

[ratingspoint]

...I think he meant we should figure out what it was used for, darling.

[notjustawriter]

You said her clothes were probably used to clean up the scene, right?

Do they smell of peroxide?

[ratingspoint]

So it's better to leave it vague and hope the group tears itself apart.

[We're. Going to be here for a while, aren't we.]

[cherryblooded]

[...]

We could smell everyone, I suppose.

HEY MODS

[sleepingkogoro]

...that could be possible. I'm not sure if the smell of blood would mask it but it's worth a try.

Besides the restroom's air seems to indicate the peroxide was used in there, so unless Aqua's body was carried in there to clean it I don't think it ever had peroxide on it.

...but as I said, it is worth a try.

[May as well do that. This is gross]

[ratingspoint]

We tried that with Norman, remember?

[We were thwarted by the fact that the man took a fucking shower.]

[captainobnoxious]

I know someone vetoed that earlier, but as your leader I say go for it.

[Just. Keep in mind that some of us may smell like it because they were handling peroxide-related things, like Sigrun herself.]

[captainobnoxious]

[who the fuck takes showers]

I'd really rather forget that.

[cherryblooded]

Shame people take showers around here. [Except Mettaton, of course, but it's not Mettaton so it doesn't matter.]

[isafraid]

[sigh.]

Times like this I wish I could tell a person's morals simply by scent.

[cherryblooded]

Well. Can't say no to my captain.

[Time for a sniff test!

Any of you guys smell like peroxide? Besides Sigrun.]

[isafraid]

It's actually a bit of a small blessing when you think about it.

[It's not like Speedwagon ever got to take this many showers in his life.]

Unfortunately, we'll have to think of something else.

[sleepingkogoro]

[This really is getting kind of awkward. At least Mouri isn't the one doing this, it seems kind of humilliating.

But no, no peroxide over here]