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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

She was already there? In the music room?

[...]

Was she already wearing that dress?

No, she wasn't. She was wearing what she always does.

Then that doesn't make sense! What could drive her to wear that dress at night and end up dying in it?

Well, the going theory is that whomever killed her changed her out of her normal outfit, which she...apparently died in, and put her in that dress.

[...]

...After she died, sweetheart, that's why people were kind of horrified earlier.