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]

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.]

[captainobnoxious]

[She is nothing if confident in people's skills!

Even if they might've been able to kill someo wait she is slamming her hands onto her podium.]

Ladle!!

[uro_cyon]

That explains the bomb, possibly.

Not the device in the arcade though.

[captainobnoxious]

Easy peasy. You used it to grab his attention, stabbed to stun, clubbed him, and dragged him over to the sauna.

[... Easy peasy, she says.]

[uro_cyon]

How did I activate it? It has no buttons and no wires.

[pokexplorer]

Remotely. You claim to have no remote, but that seems to be the only way it could be activated from what I see.

[uro_cyon]

Then you should find it, if that's the case.

[pokexplorer]

Who's to say you don't have it on you right now? Perhaps you should empty your many pockets and ease our suspicions.

[uro_cyon]

[ He gives Colress a look, and then a simple nod of acknowledgement.

Well he empties out his pockets to his room key, and another cellphone. Said cellphone is very different from the Kingmaker given ones, it's very modern and with a touchscreen.]

Sometimes, no matter how you play the game you still lose.

[pokexplorer]

[Well what's this now?]

Please pass that phone to Mr. Banner so he may inspect it.

[Judging by what Aiden said, he's pretty sure he knows what Bruce will find.]

[uro_cyon]

You won't be able to get into it. [ Because Aiden is a pretty good hacker. He's not T-Bone sure but he has taken down the entire network of Chicago with some help.]

But I'll tell you, if you want. [ He's lost at this point, and he knows it.]

[goodforsomething]

Quit talkin' like the Kingmaker. Have you been practicin' those lines?

[So dramatic, Aiden]

[isafraid]

You're a hacker, right? Surely you could think up something.

[Not that he.

Understands any of this.]

[uro_cyon]

[ A small smile, you tried Speedwagon, but yes that much is true.]

[isafraid]

[He's trying so hard goddamn.]

[captainobnoxious]

You don't need buttons to turn something on, honey. Sometimes it's as easy as the flick of a switch or a turn of the dial.

[Which these radios have (one of) at least.]

You'd just have to be lying in wait with a radio. Can't say how you kept him under, since the blood was dry but he obviously wasn't, but that's as far as I am.

[uro_cyon]

Neither of those things. [ See this, because Aiden is a control freak.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Aiden, please.

Same.]

... Then did you mess with your phone enough? Whether it's the one we all have or... your own... I don't know, but if it's to save your sister, then even a short truce would've been good enough.

[She knows a few people, both alive but mostly dead, who would've taken this for the exact reason. It was Misa's reason too, after all.]

[sleepingkogoro]

...h-hey, I had been the one to suggest the ladle...

[Somebody is mumbling to himself. why are you stealing his thunder sigrun god damn it]

[captainobnoxious]

[DEAL WITH IT, MOURI. COMPLAINTS GO IN THE COMPLAINT BOX.]

[isafraid]

And I found it...

[Good to hear that it was important after all though...!!]