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

[cherryblooded]

[When he gets to his podium, Cherryblod sets three vending machine items down where everyone can see them - a broken ukulele, a tuning fork, and a vibrator.

All three of them have blood on them.]

I found these in the workshop. It didn't look like there'd been a fight, but these and some of the heavier tools - the ones that could be used as weapons - were scattered about and bloody.

However. The blood on all of the items I found has no pattern to it. If any of these were the murder weapon, then they'd have a pattern.

Did anyone find anything else that could have been used to kill her?

[ratingspoint]

[.........Uh.]

Why a vibrator?

[He's pretty sure that's an indication that it's being used wrong.]

[cherryblooded]

Why indeed. It's not as if a workshop's the kind of place you'd want to use one anyway.

[Wood chips. Sawdust. Gross.]

[goodforsomething]

Keep it in your rooms, ya creeps.

[cherryblooded]

Murder case. Relevant.

[captainobnoxious]

You can't judge people on their tastes, Cherry.

[Or how lonely they might get at night??]

[cherryblooded]

You're right, I can't.

It just seems strange to even have one there in the first place.

[notjustawriter]

What a creep.

[cherryblooded]

Think we knew that already.

[By, you know, them murdering Aqua.]

[isafraid]

[....um]

You're saying that thing could have been used like a murder weapon?

[cherryblooded]

I don't think so. If it had been the murder weapon, there'd be a pattern to the blood.

It's a decoy, probably.

[captainobnoxious]

[Guuuuuess who has it!! Just guess. Bet you'll never guess who.

Sigrun will gladly show off her wrench which, like the previous items, has blood on it. But it's smeared blood.]

I found this in a sink. It's definitely from the workshop, I've been in there enough this week to know.

[... She'll set her bottle of hydrogen peroxide down too.]

And this, too. In the woman's restroom. The whole room kinda smelled like it too, and in another sink there was blood and water to boot. I mean, along with some of this stuff.

[amygdalae]

[...you're in a weird angle from him Sigrun, he can't read what you have.]

What does the bottle contain?

[captainobnoxious]

[-- Oh.]

Hydrogen peroxide. [Look, she actually knows this one.] The disinfectant stuff.

[there's the simple leader you know]

[amygdalae]

Hydrogen peroxide?

[That's... certainly strange.]

It's not exactly what one would use to clean themselves up.

[notjustawriter]

Wait a minute.

That means there are at least four possible murder weapons. I guess it's possible all four were used, but... it's a little odd.

[captainobnoxious]

Not if you want to cover a murder.

[notjustawriter]

Tryin' to hide the real cause of death, then.

[isafraid]

Well... you're probably right on that mark. There's really no small shortage of things that could have been used to kill her.

[Speedwagon sets some evidence of his own down onto the podium: the toolbox and the device.]

Found these in the music room. Also, the rest of the room was a bloody mess, instruments knocked down or broken entirely.

[cherryblooded]

Is that key Aqua's?

[goodforsomething]

Could've been. The door to her room wasn't shut.

[amygdalae]

Do we all have ours on us right now?

[Can't hurt to... check?]

[isafraid]

It was sitting on the bench right beside her. Don't know why, but nothing's working when you try to turn it on.

[or that. that might just be him being awful with technology.]

[ratingspoint]

...Great. Usually we don't have a weapon when someone's got a head injury. This time, she could have been killed with like eighteen things. That's cute.

[goodforsomething]

Sounds like someone's overcompensatin' for somethin'.