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

[notjustawriter]

Vinegar's just acetic acid under a different name, and highly diluted. It would explain the smell.

[pokexplorer]

I did.

[He's so glad Bruce is here, at least he's familiar with the names of these chemicals. WOES OF POKEWORLD TERMS.]

I take it they are not something you'd want to mix in your daily experiments?

[garudynamic]

...or a gag?

[Wow he obviously doesn't like even considering that]

[isafraid]

Seems it was one of those things you use in the sauna to pour water and create more steam.

The sauna was never used by the way. I checked it.

[penduli]

"For some reason" would be the same reason that you bleach your hair, wouldn't it? To look cool.

[ ...sorry we're bringing up your fake hair again. ]

[captainobnoxious]

[.... OKAY, FAIR.]

When Cleansers make bombs, they generally have some gunpowder and flammable liquids since trolls don't like them. That's as far as my knowledge goes.

[notjustawriter]

....Whoever did this has enough knowledge to know how to make bombs from household chemicals.

[cherryblooded]

Oh. Right. Don't have much use for saunas underwater, sorry.

[He was definitely thinking of a kitchen ladle.]

[captainobnoxious]

[It would've been perfect with her Woodaton.]

Okay. Good to know.

[captainobnoxious]

... I'm guessing that's not common?

[amygdalae]

Very definitely not.

[garudynamic]

Look man, there are degrees here!

[isafraid]

[Ouch.]

Then it was quite the blast!

[that thing looked like it took a lot of shit, okay]

[captainobnoxious]

On the screen when you put in your name it already had an S.

... There's not exactly a lot of people left who'd go to that place for one that start with an S in either of their names, so I assumed it was him.

[Also: She sucks at Pac-Man.]

[cherryblooded]

Putting it this way, if you mess up even the tiniest bit when you're mixing the chemicals, you're more likely to kill yourself. About the extent of my knowledge is that you can do it - I wouldn't know which chemicals or be able to get the ratios right.

So you're looking for... a scientist or someone who commonly uses bombs, I suppose?

[notjustawriter]

Not exactly, no.

The only reason I know about it is that I did research for a novel once. But I never tried to make it myself because I didn't want to blow up my house.

[amygdalae]

No, it was literally caught in his teeth. I don't think it could have been a gag if that was the case.

[captainobnoxious]

I just tapped it right in!

[She's a helpful leader.]

[garudynamic]

So probably not back blow from the explosion either then?

[cherryblooded]

...Do you normally put your last name in when you're putting in your high score, though? Wouldn't it be G?

[pokexplorer]

Ah, excellent! Thank you for the clarification, Mr. Knight.

Whomever picked it out obviously knows what it is and does, in that case.

[garudynamic]

So he was in the middle of adding his name and just stopped? Maybe he was sneak attacked while playing?

[penduli]

[ Just another Tuesday, Speedwagon. ]

It's true, but can you really imagine having a baby and you're praying it doesn't turn out like you and then it starts growing teeth and they're like a shark's? [ ... ] It's on his dad's side. His little sister doesn't have them—lucky her.

[ look at all this great knowledge he's bringing to the trial that's obviously very relevant to the case at hand... ]

[sleepingkogoro]

In Japan we usually put our family name before our given name. I have supposed the Vault here has western influences because my given name is listed first.

Shirazu-kun, being from Japan too, could just be used to inputting his family name first.

[Yep]

[captainobnoxious]

[........ Oh.]

At least our numbers being thinned makes this easier. Can't say how many people had the know how before, but I know there's at least a few here who fit that description.

[Not that she really believes Bruce would do it, actually. Colress either.]