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

[explosivecombat]

I'm fairly sure what Jericho wants in this situation doesn't matter - the condition for Rule Seven is going undiscovered, nothing more. There's nothing that says we can't aid in our own discovery, or that we even have to try to remain undiscovered at all.

Honestly, if you lot are going to try to be altruistic in future, the least you can do is go out making Jericho impotently angry.

[blackmass]

Oh, I certainly agree with this. I was merely trying to think from the perspective of one who cared about the collateral damage inflicted.

[jesus christ, kirei]

[explosivecombat]

Ah... Well, I'm fairly certain that we would be treated to more rambling that may or may not be coherent, followed by more narcissistic bleating like the child that he is, but again, it's not like he can do anything about it.

So "impotently angry" more or less sums it up, I believe.

[...guys.]

[blackmass]

In theory, he could kill us all.

[GUYS.]

The question is whether or not he would.

[explosivecombat]

I doubt it, actually. As has been noted, Mr. Jericho and Miss Larimore seem to enjoy their rules too much.

So I think it's more likely that he'd get...all of that out of his system, yell at us a little, and then change the rules such that we can't do that anymore. Make it a stunt that we can't pull twice.

[matchbreaker]

... You know he does have a rule set aside for that even if he didn't add the timer thing to the rules.

[explosivecombat]

I've noticed, yes.

[You've seen his title, of course he's noticed.]

I'm curious to see whether or not he ever ends up utilizing it.

[blackmass]

That seems reasonable enough. He rather loses some of his nature as a potential threat in that case, however.

[#shade]

[explosivecombat]

You say that as though he's provided an actual threat himself at any point.

[...GUYS.]

He's done nothing to make me believe that he poses any threat whatsoever. He controls the situation, yes, but he hasn't done anything outside the rules to us, nor has he done anything to explicitly bring us harm as long as we play nice.

For the time being, the biggest threat is the situation itself - that encompasses both the timer and each other. Mr. Jericho himself is a nonissue.

[blackmass]

Indeed, he seems just as bound to his own rules as the rest of us. Which may in fact work to our benefit as you say.

[STOP!!!!!]

Ultimately, he's no more a danger than anyone else in this room.

[explosivecombat]

My thoughts exactly.

[you. he likes you.]

[blackmass]

[you do not want kirei kotomine interested in you]

[but it's too late now no takebacks]

[explosivecombat]

[...he is just collecting a small group of people that you definitely do not want interested in you for any reason, isn't he]

[hentopan]

And he freakin' spends the entire time hiding behind that doll of his.

[ Which is boring? augh. ]

[explosivecombat]

You want to see more displays like Monday's, I'm assuming.

[hentopan]

Damn straight.

[ Just so we are clear on where he stands on this , see you on the afterparty Kimblee. ]