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

[explosivecombat]

Would you really...? Given that this case involves sleeping pills, I would have called that immediately as being a convenient excuse and not let up, honestly.

[heritrix]

Some people probably would have, certainly. It's happened more than once now. That said, it's true that even if you think you're onto something you're content to sit back, offering only hints and waiting for everyone else to catch up with you. But when you see a problem, especially one that could fall back on you, you've always handled it smoothly and efficiently.

Given all that, I'm not sure why you would have waited to speak up.

[explosivecombat]

If you have something to say to me, Miss Tohsaka, I'm willing to hear it. It seems to me, however, that all you have is the fact that I didn't speak up about drugging someone with sleeping pills...after someone was just murdered with sleeping pills.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me to not speak up, given that. Unless you disagree?

[heritrix]

I do, for the reasons I just said, but that doesn't change the fact it's circumstantial.

[And she won't bark up trees unless she has a good idea what she'll find there. So! They either need to try another angle, or find something more concrete.]

[explosivecombat]

I have nothing to hide, and I've made my arguments already. I stand by my actions, though I admit they were irresponsible.

That's all.