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

[captainobnoxious]

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

[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?

[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.]

[cherryblooded]

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

[captainobnoxious]

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.]

[penduli]

[ ..............MISS SIGRUN.................... ]

[penduli]

[ on second thought why is he even surprised anymore.

never mind, continue on ]

[captainobnoxious]

[that's right honey let mom handle it you sit back and do what you should with such great legs]

[cherryblooded]

Doubt threatening will get much out of them. But we can at least ask what they were doing last night.

Aiden, Bruce, Colress, could you all tell us where you were last night to this morning?

[amygdalae]

[Thank god there is no threatening nobody would like where that ended.]

I did some patrolling on the lower levels right after nighttime, but it wasn't for long and once it was pretty late I spent the rest of the night in my room.

[OF COURSE LAST TIME KING COULD CONFIRM THIS BUT... RIP King. RIP indeed.]

[pokexplorer]

Miss Sigrun, I am shocked that you would consider threatening me!

[He sounds very offended. Clearly.]

As for my location, I... [There is the briefest pause here.] retired to my room after Cherryblod and Beheeyem's small sparring match, where I remained for the night.

[uro_cyon]

Spent it mostly in my room, though I did go to the bar for a bit. [ Though the only person he really drank with was Tarrlok, so he no one can confirm this either.]

[amygdalae]

[...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.]

[notjustawriter]

I don't know what good that would do, unless one of us is secretly a terrorist.

[amygdalae]

I don't know either, but we've all seen our fair share of implausible things at this point.

[ie. Mettaton.]

[cherryblooded]

Is it worth it to blow yourself up in order to frame someone?

[amygdalae]

They clearly knew how to handle this, at least. So that is one thing to consider.

[cherryblooded]

I'm not saying that it couldn't be someone with access to the knowledge and too much time on their hands. But for now the suspicion falls on people who are likely to know.

Sorry.

[amygdalae]

It's fine.

[It's not like this will affect him in anyway.]

[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.

[isafraid]

....Is it easy at all to learn a thing like that in your time?

[Because that

would be kinda weird if everyone knew how to make bomb things]

[garudynamic]

Internet.

[...]

Only I think Mr. Knight is before that was super common. But yeah if I had my phone I could look it up in like, a few minutes no problem.

[notjustawriter]

...The internet's a dangerous place by the sound of it.

[sleepingkogoro]

Kind of.

[Mouri opened a website for his detective agency and it ended being an important tool for someone's murder plan. Stupid murder world]

[garudynamic]

Ooooh yeah. Free information goes both ways man. Not that I've been looking up the Anarchist Cookbook or anything.

[Mostly just porn]