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]

...I've been wondering, though. Why is the wrench separate from the others? What's different about it?

[amygdalae]

I suppose there's only one way to find out.

[Time to examine the wrench??]

[captainobnoxious]

What kinda thing are we looking for?

[Since she has it, and all. Surely nothing can go wrong with the viking inspecting a possible murder weapon.]

[amygdalae]

[Bruce raises a shoulder in a brief shrug.]

Something that could show that it was used as the weapon, perhaps.

[He assumes Sigrun would know how to determine something like that, since she's military.]

EY MODS

[captainobnoxious]

[do you think her military uses wrenches as weaponry, bruce

like in a quick pinch maybe but she's stabby stabby and bang bang not smashy smashy that's your job]

... Sure. No problem.

[So. The blood is smeared on the wrench, but where on the wrench? Head? Handle?]

[trustharder]

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

[captainobnoxious]

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

[Brilliant, Sigrun.]

[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.]

[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.

[amygdalae]

[A nod.]

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