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

[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.

[captainobnoxious]

Guess not? I mean, the only cleaning up I've done with it is for any wounds I got, so I don't know what you use it for outside of that.

[And boy, does she knows how to clean up with it like that.]

[pokexplorer]

[Hmm...]

Is it possible that the culprit got injured during the scuffle, then?

[captainobnoxious]

Maybe? I don't know where she could've hurt them though, or with what.

[pokexplorer]

Indeed... We have so many objects covered in blood, it truly is near impossible to tell.

I suppose it can be filed away for consideration for now.

[amygdalae]

Hydrogen peroxide only disinfects, though - its certainly not a miracle cure or anything like that.

[pokexplorer]

I understand that, we do have similar things in my world. I wasn't expecting it to be anything like a Potion, of course.

[Haha, Pokemon healing items...]

When I think about it more, I wonder if they would even have time to try to treat themselves that thoroughly while also working on...whatever they appear to have done here.

[amygdalae]

[Pokemon stop being weird.]

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

[cherryblooded]

...strip search again?

[captainobnoxious]

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

[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]

[pokexplorer]

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

[notjustawriter]

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

[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.

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah. And generally, the more things you stick people with, the harder it is to tell what the weapon was. We should really bring the body to these kind of things.

[notjustawriter]

[.....ew]

Maybe the murder weapon isn't the important part to solving this.

[captainobnoxious]

There's too many to count, so maybe... But it'd definitely be nicer if we knew which one she died by. I don't really want to put this thing back in the workshop if it's got her blood on it, you know?

... I mean, even if it wasn't the murder weapon, if they wanted to hide which was the real one I guess they could've just put some on it and called it a day, since it was pretty much in plain sight, but still.

[sleepingkogoro]

It is rather concerning the culprit was so cold-blooded they went to create so many red herrings just after killing her.

It is likely this was all planned carefully.

Maybe we should focus on the objects used to create the false weapons. Those vibrators...not everyone had them, right? If I remember right, some time ago there was this box where people were invited to leave theirs in there.

[cherryblooded]

The problem with that is that anyone could have gotten more even if they'd dumped all of theirs in the box then. We don't know.

[goodforsomething]

Anybody could've taken one out, even. I didn't spend that whole time guardin' the vibrator box.

There weren't that many in there when I took it back. Two or three.