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]

I only thought it would be important evidence.

[So he tried to pick it up.

Please don't judge him, podium neighbor.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Juuuuuuust a little.]

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

[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.

[captainobnoxious]

[Yikes.]

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

[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.]

[isafraid]

It was... a ladle.

[TADA]

One of those big spoons you use in the sauna, I found it by the wall all charred and broken apart.

[captainobnoxious]

[She has never been more disappointed in her entire life.

That was so anti-climatic, Mettaton is rolling in his grave, he's going to come back and haunt you.]

It was probably just blown up with the rest of him.

[cherryblooded]

Why would you have a ladle in the sauna or the arcade? It's not exactly the kind of weapon you'd use in self-defense either.

[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.

[cherryblooded]

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

[He was definitely thinking of a kitchen ladle.]

[isafraid]

....oh.

[He forgets sometimes...]

Well, now you're aware, eh?

[isafraid]

[Ouch.]

Then it was quite the blast!

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