Take Responsibility.

[trustbound]

Once again, as people finish their investigations and make their way toward the door at the bottom of those stairs in the dorms, the door down there is unlocked once again. It opens as though of its own volition, with a loud clicking sound and a soft outward swing, not firmly enough to harm anyone who might be standing in the way but enough to give them some slight encouragement to move. The stairwell it leads to is once again dark, the only light coming in from the courtroom below, if it can really properly be called that. It stands as cold and unforgiving as it did last week, all concrete and steel and the podium circle in the center, surrounding the darkened pit in the middle. Nothing can be seen down there for the time being; it simply seems like a large black hole leading nowhere. Three more podiums have joined Jean's in being arranged differently from the rest; Caren, Yosuke, and Chitoge have all joined the ranks of the deceased, their podiums draped in black with their profile portraits sitting atop them, greyed-out and watching the room with unseeing eyes. The thirty-sixth podium remains empty and blank, as always. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, the public-address system comes to life once more, and after a moment Jericho's voice can be heard "Dexterous has been taken from you; seems like a lot of you were friends with her, and you all know why you're here by now and what you're supposed to do. So hopefully you guys won't be disrespectful assholes again and expect me to make you give a damn this time! Be self-centered about it all you want, just do your jobs. After all, it's in your best interests to do that. As always, do your best - I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes." Thirty-one Participants remain. However many are left at the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[innocentloveholic]

It's not that much of overkill... It takes more than just one hit to kill most people, after all! Your skull's meant to withstand a lot, and while yeah, head wounds bleed a lot, it's totally just as Ardent says too: even minor ones and stuff like that bleed heavily. Hitting someone hard enough to knock them out probably wouldn't be able to make them bleed out necessarily!

[ but hitting them multiple times or them falling wrong/hard and them breaking something or something probably would. do something. to that effect. ]

Our best bet is that Chitoge was just knocked out, then totally unceremoniously tossed into a bunch of water and had the toaster join her. [ ...she is a little less cheerful about saying this than she usually might be. ] Which yeah, is still totally planned, and totally awful especially since we'd got a lot more ways to kill people now.

[ ....she had a point here somewhere i don't remember what it was but she has it ]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Huh. That's an interesting shift in tone. She remembers her reaction to Yosuke and she asks, a little dully. ]

Hoping for something more theatrical?

[innocentloveholic]

[ ............hmmmpph!!! ]

Chitoge and I were study buddies. I'm mad that she's dead and we're not gonna learn how to like, cook and sew and stuff together anymore.