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]

Only if they're half as fierce as the monsters back home. Do you have any idea what this metal thing could be then? 'Cause I'm really stuck on it.

[The weird electronic one she and Cherryblod have pieces of, which she'll show off of course.]

[uro_cyon]

Not so much. [ Aiden doesn't like internet trolls, too flashy for him.

He takes a moment to look at the bits.]

Hard to tell with just this, it's definitely a part of something though. You'd have to have something to compare it against.

[captainobnoxious]

[Then they're not worth her blade.

... But that's disappointing.]

That's a shame, since I don't know where to start comparing it.

[uro_cyon]

It could be one of the things out of the vending machine, but that might be a long list. [ ...Cherryblod's cache comes to mind.]

[cherryblooded]

I don't immediately recognize it, but without everything I've gotten to compare it to, I could easily miss something. Besides, there's probably still plenty in there I don't have yet.

[captainobnoxious]

I would honestly be surprised if you didn't have one of everything in there, Cherry.

[cherryblooded]

No, I know there's at least some things I don't have. I don't have any sledgehammers and I've seen scepters, too.

...A scepter honestly would have made that battle yesterday a bit less... regrettable.

[goodforsomething]

Eeesh, should've asked around. You could've borrowed mine.

[Those things are too fancy-looking for his tastes, but they swing good.]

[cherryblooded]

Should have, didn't.

I stabbed a Pokemon with a pike, Stan, it was awful.

[captainobnoxious]

... Did it bleed?

[pokexplorer]

It was rather impressive, honestly.

[Colress that is your own Pokemon.]

[goodforsomething]

Seriously? [Stan snorts.] I don't like those things. Gimme a knife any day - or just a plain old-fashioned boxing match!

[captainobnoxious]

I'll take it.

[goodforsomething]

Lemme know next time you're fighting a Pokemon.

[He said "borrow", Sigrun]

[captainobnoxious]

Those guys are tough, aren't they. I kind of want to start a collection of all the weapons myself. Hang them on my walls.

[... She needs a new pike and flail. And she's not graverobbing that bit.]

[cherryblooded]

It was actually fairly one-sided. Think you just had a closer matchup.

[captainobnoxious]

[... All that junk...]

So it's a pretty useless trail. Guess all we've got are the bombs and that scrap then. Thanks anyway.

MOD PAGING

[cherryblooded]

Nothing, hm. Can't even figure out what it does...

[Okay, basic electronics 101 with Cherryblod. Sometimes things do not have a button on them because they have a button on a remote, and those things usually have an antenna to help pick up the remote's signal.

Does this have an antenna?]

[trustharder]

[Nope, no antenna.]

[cherryblooded]

[Dang.]

[pokexplorer]

I do wonder if it is some sort of monitoring device to listen in on someone, if it has a speaker and nothing else distinguishable...

[cherryblooded]

Could be. Something like that wouldn't need an on/off switch, would it?

[pokexplorer]

Possibly- but do we have the entire device between the pieces you and Miss Sigrun found?

PAGING MODS, AGAIN

[cherryblooded]

Hard to say without knowing what it is.

[He's right next to her and the device, so he tries fitting them together.

Between the device and the pieces, does it look like it makes a whole whatchamacallit?]

[trustharder]

[It does! You can put all those pieces together to make...

A Showa Radio? Yep, that looks like one of those items from the vending machine, but it's definitely been messed with to make it into some sort of device. While it doesn't have any buttons at all on it, it does seem like the sort of thing you could remotely trigger. So that might be important.]