Take Responsibility.

[trustbound]

And once everyone has finished their investigations of the building, the door down at the bottom of that stairwell in the dorms seems to once again have been unlocked; it opens slowly and as though of its own volition, swinging outward lightly after an audible click of the latch. Hopefully everyone knows better than to stand in front of it by now, but if not...well, it's gentle enough to provide some sort of encouragement to move without straight-out hitting anyone. For the third time in as many weeks, the stairwell that door leads to is dark; the only light visible is what managing to get in from the courtroom below. The room itself remains as unforgiving and imposing as ever with its walls made entirely of concrete and steel; the podium circle stands starkly in the center, wooden structures ringing the darkened pit below. Again, there's been a change in the podium setup; Blue and Walt have joined those with podiums draped in black. Their profile portraits are arranged atop them, greyed-out and observing the proceedings, along with the rest of those that you've lost. As always, the thirty-sixth podium stands empty. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, Jericho can be heard over the public-address system; he seems to have gotten himself together a little more since morning, though he still doesn't quite seem up to the usual. "Methodical's been taken from you; almost all of you know why you're here right now, and even if your secrets aren't safe anymore, I'd still suggest doing your job to the fullest - unless you consider those secrets worth dying over, even if they aren't worth killing over. As for the guilty party...your secret's safe with me, but unfortunately? You're not safe at all just yet. Whether you manage to actually ensure that you are by the end of the trial is a different matter, I guess. Innocent against the guilty. Let's go round three, see how well you all come out. As always, do your best!" Twenty-nine Participants remain. Let's see how many remain at the end of the day.

Comments

Smell O Check

[matchbreaker]

[ Welp. She's not a dog but she is a vampire? She is a vampire and has a keen sense of smell, especially for blood. With how nasty everyone's been describing the scene the killer ought to still have some stink of it on them (blood, other bodily fluids), right? Or smell like a lot of aggressive cleaning?

... At worst she looks stupid, so. ]

Alright, alright. "Tino" and the mm-pigtail girl seem to think I'm best giving everyone a sniff, so I'm going to come around and do that. I know I'm a suspect, I won't off any of you here though.

[bloodisthicker]

It's really as good as anything else right now. Just... go ahead.

[he smells like a lady, but not like blood.]

[hesperos]

[ He just smells like a normal person. ]

[chessturner]

...please try to make it quick. Frankly, I'm kind of uncomfortable with this, and I'm sure you are too.

[Nothing over here!]

[matchbreaker]

Honestly, yes. Sorry about that.

[ninehundredlives]

...if that's what we're doing...

[Susan does smell a little like blood, but as noted previously, she was a body toucher. It doesn't smell like she was covered in it, in any case.]

[explosivecombat]

[He smells like aggressive cleaning, and...not quite like Susan and Rideaux and Aligula, who were actually handling the body, but he does smell like he was in the damn room for a while.]

...I was paying my respects to Mr. White earlier, before you ask, and I'll admit that everything he decided to be was repulsive and difficult to get out.

[matchbreaker]

Huh... That's a pretty quick shower turn around. Did we get more time than normal?

[ But then he is military so... she'll shrug and move on for now. ]

[ninehundredlives]

Did you go back in there after we left?

[firstaid]

[She smells all clean and flowery and like laundry detergent because she does her wash rather religiously.]

[perpend]

[He might smell a little like blood because he was in the infirmary with the body, but he is otherwise clean.]

[destage]

[Sayaka smells like soap, but nothing excessive? She takes her showers early, what can she say, but there's no blood/body fluid smell.]

[greenmamabear]

Wait a minute: are we really letting our prime suspect claim to find new evidence? That's a bit of a suspect source, isn't it?

[matchbreaker]

I just said I know that's the case and I won't off you.

You going to comply or not, Green?

[ninehundredlives]

Not that you don't have a point, but she hasn't really claimed to find anything, yet. You might as well wait to see if anything really comes of it.

[heritrix]

[Rin's shoes are probably going to be smelly. I mean, she was right there where the body was found, and walked through blood and gross stuff. But other than that, she's good. She smells like tea.]

[zomgboom]

[Tabby only briefly went into the infirmary, so maybe a light whiff of blood but mostly she smells like ozone - or, in other words, like a storm is coming.]

[matchbreaker]

... Eesh girl, you smell like the deck of a ship. Is that the plasma stuff?

[brandnewday]

[Hibiki's clean! She probably smells...really normal. No strong smell of blood or other fluids.]

[shuttermouse]

[ Chie took some pictures in the infirmary and carried the dead guy's arm so she probably smells a bit like blood and corpse, but she's otherwise clean. Nothing out of the ordinary here. ]

[sleepytimegal]

[ Normal person smell, besides some messy shoe stuff from following the blood trail. ]

[evilfrenzy]

[Wow. This sure is happening. Rideaux's just going to give Elda a Look when she reaches him, somewhere between judging and pity.

Since he was in the room with the body, traces of...That scent can be found on his hands and shoes. The bottoms of his shoes are still stained with blood, since he hasn't had a chance to properly clean them between the investigation and trial.]

[captainobnoxious]

[She smells like a normal person. A little sweaty because she's wearing a fucking sweater, but a normal person.

Her arm is thankfully doing better, so there's nothing weird coming off it! Should've tried this last week.]

[innocentloveholic]

[ ...another body toucher here, what do you think. She at least washed her hands thoroughly before coming here, so there's soap? But she's otherwise fairly normal, the... fact she was up-close-and-personal with Walter "This Was In No Way Methodical" White aside. ]

[spiritform]

Ah-- interesting. I have no problem with this.

[Nothing unpleasant of the sort. If anything she has a smell akin to that of the elements. She's used to having the embodiment of earth, water, fire and wind around her after all.]