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]

Hmm. You would describe the smell of vinegar to be rather pungent, correct?

[Colress pulls out several bottles that he gathered during his investigation.]

I had a feeling that some chemicals may have been at play here, so I paid a visit to the chemistry lab. A few bottles from the wall have been nearly emptied since I last took stock: iodine, ammonia, and acetic acid.

The latter may be of importance for this bit.

[penduli]

[ NOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


UNTIL AFTER THE TRIAL he's only wearing these for the trial. ]

[captainobnoxious]

[Juuuuuuust a little.]

And it is, obviously! I'm glad you're okay though, buddy.

[sleepingkogoro]

I don't know much about chemistry, but I don't think purple haze happens unless there's some serious work to create it. Maybe those chemicals were used in the bomb.

[notjustawriter]

[Gabriel looks surprised.]

That iodine you found... is it liquid, or is it a bunch of crystals?

[garudynamic]

That's weird, Why would they only hide part of it?

[cherryblooded]

Don't know. I'd say they damaged it so no one can use it, but this doesn't have any buttons or anything. There's no buttons on the entire device, it looks like.

[isafraid]

[at least it wasn't another bottle of bleach.]

... Thank you, Captain. In any case, it looks like whatever that bomb was did him in... or at least put a dent in him something fierce.

There were marks all over the walls in the sauna.

[amygdalae]

[All of you people already discussing stuff. BRUCE WILL PAUSE TO GIVE HIS BODY REPORT.]

The cause of death here, for now, seems to have been the bomb itself - there are defensive wounds on his arms, most of the being bruises. There is also another bruise at the back of his head - in both of these cases, they were both incurred before death and none of the bruises are dark enough to show that they could incur major blunt force trauma.

[tl;dr Shizaru didn't die by being hit in the head. Unlike Aqua. (RIP Aqua).]

As mentioned earlier there is a stab wound on his right shoulder, although the wound itself is non-fatal; and caught in his teeth I found this piece of fabric. [Bruce takes out from his pocket a piece of grey fabric and shows it to everyone. It's not a very large scrap and looks like it was torn off something.

Once everyone has seen it Bruce puts that down and then brings out what seems like a small mess of somewhat bloodied bandages that Bruce undoes enough so that he can hold up a slightly curved shard of glass.]

...I retrieved this from the wound on his abdomen. [You're welcome, everyone.] The curvature suggests that this was a container of sorts at some point - most likely what had been holding the contents of what caused the explosion itself.

... sorry mods come back

[captainobnoxious]

[Thank you, darling. She'll turn it in her hand.]

So someone tried getting rid of it? Or parts of it, anyway. Still dunno what it is. But it looks like it makes noise, so... I'm not really inclined to say that it's a murder weapon? More like a murder distraction.

[... That said, are there visible wires to mess with on this thing, or is she gonna have to smash it a little more.]

[amygdalae]

Most likely. It doesn't seem like the damage could really do much else beyond that.

[captainobnoxious]

[Yikes.]

That could've been you all over the walls. What kind of marks? Like, scorch marks?

[garudynamic]

So it's a receiver of some sort? Like, uhm... a baby monitor? Or something like that? I know there's radios on the vending machine, but nothing like this, right?

[amygdalae]

...in all likelihood, yes.

[...thank you for not touching it, Speedwagon.]

[trustharder]

[While you probably could mess with the wires, you really don't need to. You won't find anything there.]

[cherryblooded]

Could be. But those connect to something else, don't they?

Then again, who knows what comes out of the vending machine.

[captainobnoxious]

[..... Colress.

Look at her. Look at her.]

It was really strong and gross, yeah. Are those strong and gross smells too?

[amygdalae]

[--wait what.]

Did you say iodine and ammonia?

Paging Mods!

[pokexplorer]

[I actually didn't think to ask this, oops. Is it liquid or crystals?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Good to know, thought to check. Useless piece of machine.]

[notjustawriter]

Maybe it was a personal item?

Something someone was worried would be connected back to them.

[garudynamic]

[Yosuke is watching this carefully- looking to see if the pieces look like they fit back together like a puzzle or if they are way to crushed for that.]

[amygdalae]

If its really iodine, it does explain the purple smoke.

Iodine, when heated, becomes a purple-colored smoke.

[isafraid]

[whhhhhyyyy would you tell him that]

Y-yeah. [ahem] A bit like that, singes and a bit of smoke, just enough to tell you that something went off in there.

[...]

Oh, there's one other thing.

[captainobnoxious]

[The suspense is killing her.

And everyone else.]