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

[pokexplorer]

That is fair, but it's not like the sauna and arcade are far away from each other. They are on the same floor.

[uro_cyon]

[ He's silent this time, but there is just a hint of a smile there. Not telling.]

[captainobnoxious]

[No, no she didn't.]

... If this is another case of the Kingmaker giving someone something to complete the crime, I can see where you'd get a remote from for it. But outside of that and whatever electric junk in the machine, all I can think about is your phone.

[Which is, from the sound of her tone, a long shot to herself. It's not like any of them have blow up buttons.]

I mean, a hacker can get around with codes and junk, right? Does it apply there too?

...paging kingmaker

[cherryblooded]

...Kingmaker, just to confirm, but we don't have to play along with this, do we? We could stand here in silence until you called for the vote.

whoops sorry had to fact check

[amygdalae]

[...]

Nitrogen triiodide is incredibly volatile. Even a feather would be able to set it off.

Re: whoops sorry had to fact check

[sleepingkogoro]

Then what I said could be what happened!

[Kind of a long shot but sure, why not?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Oooooooooooooooh. Yikes.]

Teach me how to make it so I can use it against trolls.

[uro_cyon]

Normally. But the vault interferes with signals, why do you think our cellphones don't do much?

[isafraid]

[He knows. He's tired to. But.

Should we.... He doesn't know.]

[notjustawriter]

I figured it had to do with possibly being underground and nowhere near a tower.

[kingmakereffect]

And I could just leave you all standing here forever then, couldn't I?

Get to work.

[amygdalae]

It interferes with signals going in and out, but if its internally it clearly doesn't have the same issue.

[Considering their Kingmaker-given devices are all working perfectly fine.]

[uro_cyon]

[ He's mum on the first part.]

Anything electronic can be messed with if you know how.

[cherryblooded]

[Wow. Thanks.]

Do we still explode if we fall asleep here?

[amygdalae]

[Sigrun no.]

...its incredibly dangerous. I wouldn't advice that.

[kingmakereffect]

You have better things to do than question me.

[uro_cyon]

If you're so sure, take it. [ He reaches into his pocket and tosses Bruce his phone from the Kingmaker. There's nothing off about it, standard issue and all.]

[cherryblooded]

I'd rather talk to you than talk to someone who isn't worth my time or attention. Could you answer the question, please?

[kingmakereffect]

Focus on the trial, Dedicated.

[The Kingmaker sounds totally done.]

[cherryblooded]

[Rude.]

[captainobnoxious]

And you're not bad at it. With the damning evidence having been around your neck, I'd say you could be good enough to pull it off.

[... But Bruce can take a look at that thing, sure, since she doesn't know all that shit.]

[isafraid]

[Have a hand on your shoulder, Cherryblod.]

Come on. Sooner we figure it out, the sooner it ends.

[captainobnoxious]

And if it's incredibly dangerous to me, think of what it'll do to a bunch of trolls! Their guts would go everywhere! We could lay traps for the bigger, nastier ones and just let them blow themselves up...

[Science is exciting.]

[amygdalae]

[Bruce catches the device and... well, examines it, since he's already at this stage. There's clearly nothing off about it, but still...]

...I got my own mobile from the machine. Did the same happen to you?

[cherryblooded]

I suppose. I'd like to have a nap soon.

[This is stupid.]