trusthell | Take Responsibility.

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.

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Right, there's... maybe three, off the top of my head.

Yeah, same with me. So he might have been putting like, S-G or something similar.

[Ha!!! Ha!!!!!]

I mean, your other suspects on the game front would be me and Stan then, and that was my first time playing it.

[... During a murder investigation.]

And can you really imagine the old man having anything to do with a noisy place like that? He told me that he's sure he's never been up there before now.

It doesn't exactly surprise me that chemicals would be involved here- I imagine that the moves Explosion and Selfdestruct involve chemical reactions from inside a Pokemon's body to expel that much explosive energy.

[THERE HE GOES AGAIN...]

Could be. I'd definitely ask someone to wait until I put in my name before I got killed, too.

There doesn't seem to be anything in the sauna itself that would indicate where the fabric came from.

I've seen people wear and do some wild stuff for the sake of being trendy. There really aren't.

[Sigrun why would you stop an investigation for a pac-man break?

not that he doesn't think pacman is kinda fun]

I mean if Speedwagon used his last name too but...

[I mean, it's Speedwagon.]

Though some people have names they only use for gaming and stuff. But there's no way we'd be able to figure that out unless it's something someone brought up sometime, so-

[Let's not even chase down that possibility we'll be here forever]

[there he go.....]

Uh... huh. Okay. So is it hard to clean them up?

Your Pokemon pals can explode?!

[That sounds real dangerous and the mental images Mouri has are hella gross. Ugh]

[...not that he's mad that you're narrowing down

but]

Looking at it the other way around, it could also be somebody who did this deliberately to shift the suspicion.

[After all, making this does require some rather specific skillsets.]

Yeah, same. Some games have timers on adding your name too- though I dunno if an older game like that would.

Do we make them testify or will threatening them actually work this time?

[Because, uh.

Because she'll open her jacket to show him some of the throwing knives she's got sewn in there.]