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

[uro_cyon]

Wrong.

Even if that was all true, you want to tell me how I activated something without a remote?

[amygdalae]

The radio.

[uro_cyon]

That type of radio doesn't have a signal that can travel that far. [ Feel free to not take his word on this, but he would know.]

Ask anyone who's familiar with radio equipment if you don't believe me.

[amygdalae]

Being right outside of a room doesn't need a very far distance in the first place.

[uro_cyon]

Normally. But the vault interferes with signals, why do you think our cellphones don't do much?

[notjustawriter]

I figured it had to do with possibly being underground and nowhere near a tower.

[amygdalae]

It interferes with signals going in and out, but if its internally it clearly doesn't have the same issue.

[Considering their Kingmaker-given devices are all working perfectly fine.]

[uro_cyon]

If you're so sure, take it. [ He reaches into his pocket and tosses Bruce his phone from the Kingmaker. There's nothing off about it, standard issue and all.]

[amygdalae]

[Bruce catches the device and... well, examines it, since he's already at this stage. There's clearly nothing off about it, but still...]

...I got my own mobile from the machine. Did the same happen to you?

[pokexplorer]

That is fair, but it's not like the sauna and arcade are far away from each other. They are on the same floor.

[isafraid]

It would be simple to chase someone from one to the other!

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

Did it have to have a remote? Maybe -- timed. Or something. Like how you light a fuse and then you wait and then boom.

[uro_cyon]

Wouldn't you have found a piece to indicate that? Because you didn't.

[captainobnoxious]

[No, no she didn't.]

... If this is another case of the Kingmaker giving someone something to complete the crime, I can see where you'd get a remote from for it. But outside of that and whatever electric junk in the machine, all I can think about is your phone.

[Which is, from the sound of her tone, a long shot to herself. It's not like any of them have blow up buttons.]

I mean, a hacker can get around with codes and junk, right? Does it apply there too?

[uro_cyon]

[ He's mum on the first part.]

Anything electronic can be messed with if you know how.

[captainobnoxious]

And you're not bad at it. With the damning evidence having been around your neck, I'd say you could be good enough to pull it off.

[... But Bruce can take a look at that thing, sure, since she doesn't know all that shit.]

[uro_cyon]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. [ He sounds like he means it, mostly.]

[sleepingkogoro]

...

[Think, Mouri...]

You...could have made the chemical components react by percussion. If you...hit the explosive device with something like the ladle Speedwagon-san found - by throwing it from the entrance of the sauna, for example - the chemicals could combust and the explosion could happen.

...

Or maybe not. I'm not sure how volatile the chemicals are.

whoops sorry had to fact check

[amygdalae]

[...]

Nitrogen triiodide is incredibly volatile. Even a feather would be able to set it off.

Re: whoops sorry had to fact check

[sleepingkogoro]

Then what I said could be what happened!

[Kind of a long shot but sure, why not?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Oooooooooooooooh. Yikes.]

Teach me how to make it so I can use it against trolls.

[amygdalae]

[Sigrun no.]

...its incredibly dangerous. I wouldn't advice that.

[captainobnoxious]

And if it's incredibly dangerous to me, think of what it'll do to a bunch of trolls! Their guts would go everywhere! We could lay traps for the bigger, nastier ones and just let them blow themselves up...

[Science is exciting.]

[sleepingkogoro]

Eide-san, please!

[Mouri looks a bit green here]

[amygdalae]

[Sigrun.]

And deal with the collateral damage afterwards?

[Said with the driest tone possible.]