Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

The allotted time for investigating comes to an end, and those elevator doors slide open at the end of the first-floor corridor; it's a bit of a walk down from the fifth floor, but at least the ride down is swift and smooth. To say nothing of spacious. Your numbers are running low. The podium circle, as always, stands out against the black-walled courtroom where it's encircling that pit in the center; Mettaton and Shirazu have joined the ranks of the deceased, photographs in greyscale watching the proceedings from their podiums draped in black. The Kingmaker, too, is watching all of you; as always, it isn't until everyone has settled at their podium that he speaks, his voice sounding out through the room for all to hear. "Sacrificial has been taken from you. Maybe this time the guilty party is going to actually succeed at Rule Seven - but of course, whether they manage it is still up to the rest of you." Eleven Survivors remain. How many are still standing by the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[uro_cyon]

Habit.

[notjustawriter]

We've been here for well over a month.

[amygdalae]

[Ooookay.]

...pass that over to Cherryblod, if you would.]

[pokexplorer]

Possibly- but do we have the entire device between the pieces you and Miss Sigrun found?

[uro_cyon]

[ After a few seconds he reaches into his shirt and takes the scarf out. It's a solid color grey, all right and he'll hand it over after a glance at Cherryblod.]

PAGING MODS, AGAIN

[cherryblooded]

Hard to say without knowing what it is.

[He's right next to her and the device, so he tries fitting them together.

Between the device and the pieces, does it look like it makes a whole whatchamacallit?]

[isafraid]

Now that's using your head!

[Speedwagon's wearing his usual clothes. He's got no grey or torn spots aside form the hero's scarf he's worn in and out here.]

[uro_cyon]

[He shrugs.] And I've lived in Chicago for most of my life. [ A month is nothing.]

[cherryblooded]

[Once it makes its way to him, Cherryblod inspects it closely for any tears in the fabric.]

[captainobnoxious]

Oh, I understand. Why else do you think I keep wearing this heat stroke of a jacket?

[Habit. Just slips it on in the morning without a second thought.]

[trustharder]

[It does! You can put all those pieces together to make...

A Showa Radio? Yep, that looks like one of those items from the vending machine, but it's definitely been messed with to make it into some sort of device. While it doesn't have any buttons at all on it, it does seem like the sort of thing you could remotely trigger. So that might be important.]

[uro_cyon]

Glad someone does. [ Look he probably dresses like this in the summer too.]

[cherryblooded]

It looks like those radios from the machine, just fiddled around with. You could probably turn it on remotely...

[isafraid]

Bit of a reflex, then anything else.

[Says the dude in an overcoat.]

[uro_cyon]

[There's a tear if you look closely enough, one that looks similar enough to the fabric from Shirazu's mouth.]

[cherryblooded]

That's certainly a tear. -Bruce, you have the fabric scrap, can you pass it over here?

[He's going to compare to see if it's an exact match.]

[goodforsomething]

Huh.

[Stan gave his radio to Sigrun earlier this week. Lucky she couldn't fiddle around with it like that!]

All those things make is static, unless someone found broadcasting equipment. You think it could've been used as some kinda detonator?

[pokexplorer]

Ohh! It is nice to see one of those being used creatively!

[Colress.]

[cherryblooded]

Wouldn't know enough about electronics to say. This is about as far as my knowledge goes.

[Electronics and water.]

[cherryblooded]

Colress.

[amygdalae]

Sure thing.

[...he doesn't like this, but.

He comes over to Cherryblod to pass over to him the fabric scrap for examination.]

[pokexplorer]

[WHAT.]

Myyyy apologies.

[cherryblooded]

[Alright. Is the material a match, and is the shape of the tear a match?]

[cherryblooded]

[Thank you. Dork out about sciencey stuff when people aren't being murdered.]

[amygdalae]

...it could have been used to set off the nitrogen triiodide from a safe distance, if rigged for the right ways.