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

[cherryblooded]

[Huh, okay. He'll return the larger electronic to Sigrun's podium until he can think of something else to inspect it for.]

Found some pieces of your whatever this is. In the water tank of a toilet.

[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.

[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?

[cherryblooded]

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

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

[notjustawriter]

Maybe it was a personal item?

Something someone was worried would be connected back to them.

... 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.]

[trustharder]

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

[captainobnoxious]

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

[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.]