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

[isafraid]

You're a hacker, right? Surely you could think up something.

[Not that he.

Understands any of this.]

[goodforsomething]

Please tell me she ain't your twin.

[he's so out if Aiden's another one]

[isafraid]

And I found it...

[Good to hear that it was important after all though...!!]

[uro_cyon]

She's not. She's my younger sister and it's because of me that she keeps getting dragged into situations like this. [ Actually upset, because this is a soft spot for him, his only soft spot.]

Her daughter died because of me.

[captainobnoxious]

You don't need buttons to turn something on, honey. Sometimes it's as easy as the flick of a switch or a turn of the dial.

[Which these radios have (one of) at least.]

You'd just have to be lying in wait with a radio. Can't say how you kept him under, since the blood was dry but he obviously wasn't, but that's as far as I am.

[uro_cyon]

You're making assumptions about what does and doesn't work. [ Because in the wake of a magical notebook that kills people, that seems faulty. But if he asked the Kingmaker, that's still not really working with him is it. (at least not in the long term).]

There's no part of the device that tracks time.

[uro_cyon]

[ A small smile, you tried Speedwagon, but yes that much is true.]

[uro_cyon]

Then you should find it, if that's the case.

[amygdalae]

It doesn't necessarily need to track time in that manner. The dials on the radio could be easily be modified as a stand in.

[And with Aiden's skills, presumably, it could work.]

[uro_cyon]

It's not a bad idea, but no. I like to have more control than that.

[isafraid]

[He's trying so hard goddamn.]

[uro_cyon]

Neither of those things. [ See this, because Aiden is a control freak.]

[pokexplorer]

Who's to say you don't have it on you right now? Perhaps you should empty your many pockets and ease our suspicions.

[captainobnoxious]

[Aiden, please.

Same.]

... Then did you mess with your phone enough? Whether it's the one we all have or... your own... I don't know, but if it's to save your sister, then even a short truce would've been good enough.

[She knows a few people, both alive but mostly dead, who would've taken this for the exact reason. It was Misa's reason too, after all.]

[isafraid]

...Sounds like you're saying that you could control the bomb. Plain as that.

[Which doesn't make.... sense. Does it?]

[amygdalae]

[Control...

A word Bruce knows very well.]

You used the transmitter from your phone onto the bomb and with that frequency, used the Kingmaker's device to set it off.

[goodforsomething]

...can't say I don't know the feeling.

[But it's not the first culprit he's been able to sympathize with, not by a long shot.]

[uro_cyon]

[ He gives Colress a look, and then a simple nod of acknowledgement.

Well he empties out his pockets to his room key, and another cellphone. Said cellphone is very different from the Kingmaker given ones, it's very modern and with a touchscreen.]

Sometimes, no matter how you play the game you still lose.

[uro_cyon]

You can. [ If only he could explain the wonders of chemistry and technology, but unfortunately he's not going to have the time to.]

[uro_cyon]

[ Then you get it, and that's all he has to say.]

...

[pokexplorer]

[Well what's this now?]

Please pass that phone to Mr. Banner so he may inspect it.

[Judging by what Aiden said, he's pretty sure he knows what Bruce will find.]

[goodforsomething]

Quit talkin' like the Kingmaker. Have you been practicin' those lines?

[So dramatic, Aiden]

[uro_cyon]

You won't be able to get into it. [ Because Aiden is a pretty good hacker. He's not T-Bone sure but he has taken down the entire network of Chicago with some help.]

But I'll tell you, if you want. [ He's lost at this point, and he knows it.]

[captainobnoxious]

Spill.

[Oldworld technology was never her thing, but she could admit they made some pretty neat stuff.

This is now tucked under "neat stuff".]

[amygdalae]

[Starkphones His phone is also nigh impenetrable as well, so Bruce doesn't expect anybody less from a hacker. All their most important data is stored in their electronics, after all.

So yeah, he doesn't really look much into it. There isn't a point, anyway.]

We've all been here for long enough. You should know better than to fall to his pushing.