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]

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.]

[isafraid]

Or it was the closest place to hide some evidence?

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

[cherryblooded]

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

[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.

[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.

[cherryblooded]

Agreed. Framing someone is harder than it looks.

[He... he knows from experience.]

[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.

[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]

... 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.

[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.

[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?

[sleepingkogoro]

I won't do such thing!

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

[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?

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]

[trustharder]

[...I. You.

What.



...O...kay we're just gonna smell Aqua's clothes apparently no they don't smell like peroxide and every single one of you needs to go to church

just

all of y'all need to let the lord into your hearts]

[sleepingkogoro]

No peroxide on the clothes. I better not have to do something like this ever again.

[Mouri kind of hates you for making him smell a dead nineteen year old's blood-covered clothes, Gabriel. Let this glare tell you that]

[amygdalae]

...thank you for checking for us, detective.

[It's okay Mouri... it was for solving the murder...]

[captainobnoxious]

[... Actually, this gives her an idea.

Like. Longshot of the day. But. She's gonna smell the wrench.

Though she's expecting just blood, yeah.]

[trustharder]

[Your expectations will not be dashed this day, Sigrun, that is a lot of blood.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Yeah, that is what she thought.

Ooookay. Now let's set it down so no one realizes she sniffed the probably murder weapon.]