Take Responsibility.

[trustbound]

And once everyone has done what they need to do and gathered at that bottom of that stairwell in the dormitory, the door before them once again seems to unlatch and swing outward, lightly and of its own volition. It's the fourth time in the span of about a month; perhaps there's some strange, dark sense of familiarity in it. Perhaps, too, that stairwell leading further down is beginning to feel familiar, dark and unwelcoming though it is; the courtroom is still illuminated at the bottom of it, sending a slight amount of light up the stairs and guiding everyone down to that stark room made of concrete and steel. The podium circle stands still and silent in the center, waiting for everyone to take their place around the darkened pit below; once again, there's been a change in the circle itself in the form of three more podiums joining the ranks of the deceased. Fern, Tabby, and Sigrun all have their places in the circle marked with black cloth and a photograph in greyscale, keeping watch over all of you in a manner both unseeing and vaguely judgmental. As always, the thirty-sixth podium stands blank and unoccupied among you. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, Jericho can be heard over the public-address system; he seems to have collected himself at some point during the investigation, it shows in his voice, as little as anyone really wants it to. "For better or worse, Boundless is no longer among you. I'm sure you guys all know what that means by now, what you're here to do. And before you ask, because I know it's going to come up eventually and now's as good a time as any - yeah, we'd have you down here if someone tries to be a big damn hero for the group, because someone's still dead because somebody fucked up. It just means the dead person and the guilty person are the same person. So you know what, the game's the same, no matter what happened here - innocent against the guilty, fourth time, let's go! And as always, do your best!" Twenty-six Participants remain. However many leave this place is up to you.

Comments

[heritrix]

One of them has been missing since the beginning of the week. Before I investigated the shooting range on Sunday, even.

[Actually, thinking of that...]

Given the time it would take to make those carvings, that would make the crossbow Elda found likely to have been the first to go missing, right? Sigrun probably couldn't have done this overnight.

[notaccurate]

Mhmm. So the second one missing is probably the one the killer used.

[bloodisthicker]

...but where is it now, if we didn't find it during the investigation?

[explosivecombat]

That would depend on the complexity of the carvings, I'd think. If they were elaborate, then certainly, but Sigrun was also a highly skilled person who was apparently used to carving runes like that into things. If they were simple enough, I'd think it possible.

[heritrix]

Mm. That's true. And with Kyrie chipping in, it really must have been done more recently.

[chessturner]

...I don't think so. [Kyrie closes her eyes, thinking] Eide-san and I shot crossbows on Tuesday. I'm not completely sure, but I don't think her crossbow had any runes.

[It doesn't mean that isn't the crossbow that went missing, though. It could still be that one]