Take Responsibility.

[trustbound]

This particular investigation was likely a difficult one, for various reasons; whether through frustration or sheer disgust at the level of depravity involved, it's been a long day already. It doesn't seem like it will get any easier by the time the door to the courtroom unlocks, gently swinging open to allow everyone downstairs. As always, the stairwell is dark, but the courtroom is already lit up down below, a thin amount of light bouncing up the corridor to guide everyone downstairs; the podium circle stands stark and silent in the center, marking spots for both the living and the dead; by now, the latter far outnumber the former. Kirei, Milla, Angel, and Susan have all had their spots altered, their podiums draped in black cloth and their portraits set atop them; they'll be joining those watching all of you in greyscale as you work today. Do you think you'll do them justice? Either way and as always, the thirty-sixth podium remains empty and unadorned. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, Jericho can be heard over the public-address system; he doesn't seem to have settled any from the investigation. "Peerless, Edifying, and Adroit have all been taken from you - and hey, it looks like you found all of them, we appreciate that. But even if you hadn't, you'd still be down here, and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what you have to do as a result of everything that's happened. This is another one of those things that's either gonna be great or it's going to be terrible, though maybe I'll add in a third option of 'interesting' this time, just due to the setup. As always, you know what's going on here - the innocent versus the guilty. Seventh time lucky, maybe. As always, do your best!" Thirteen Participants remain. We'll see how many leave here at the end of the day.

Comments

[bloodbiter]

The tourniquet makes me wonder. Susan had one, too... But I don't understand the purpose of it. It's not as though they were concerned about making a mess. All of the places we found the bodies were very bloody.

[notaccurate]

Maybe to avoid getting blood on their clothes?

[bloodbiter]

But from my knowledge, they were applied after death. If that was their concern, could they not just have left?

For that matter, it seems strange for them to be concerned about getting blood on their clothing but choose to remove entire limbs from their victims...

[heritrix]

Maybe they were more concerned about getting it on themselves? They moved several body parts between rooms, after all.

[bloodbiter]

But... The body parts they applied the tourniquets to were not the ones they carried between rooms. Wouldn't there be more of a concern about blood from the limb they removed getting on them?