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

[notaccurate]

So we have 'nonsense' from Tarrlok, 'one' from Alex, and 'all for' from you. Any others?

[He sees that Rideaux and Adelina have notes but hasn't gotten over to them yet.]

[evilfrenzy]

...Huh. Now that you say it, that does make the randomly capitalized letters in this note seem all the more peculiar.

[He reviews the note he got: "Fridges aren’t the Only thing Running"]

This one gives us another "for".

[matchbreaker]

Oh this had better not be a Musketeers joke.

[ Especially given <a href="https://trustfell.dreamwidth.org/21706.html?thread=18981322#cmt18981322>Adelina's</a> thing. ]

[notaccurate]

All for nonsense, nonsense for one?

[matchbreaker]

That or Rin's interpritation. I suppose it depends on what order we were meant to find the notes. Which might be explained by the arrows.

[ And frankly, it probably doesn't matter. ]

[notaccurate]

Well it certainly is a lot of nonsense.

['Nonsense' being his way of saying 'what the fuck even']

[innocentloveholic]

Like the candy bar?

[matchbreaker]

No, like the novel. You know, the story? "All for one and one for all?" That sort of thing.

[innocentloveholic]

Never read it!

[ what do you expect from her, elda. ]

[matchbreaker]

You know, that doesn't terribly surprise me.

[ Ahaha... ha. ]

[heritrix]

[She's putting that together in her head, and...]

I don't even have to look at Adelina's to guess the rest now. [But she will, just to confirm it.] "One for nonsense, all for nonsense."

[hesperos]

... What's the point of leaving a message like that?

[ He doesn't get the joke here, um. ]

[heritrix]

It's a reference, just like Elda said, made famous by a classic book called The Three Musketeers. And wouldn't you know it? We have three bodies.

[evilfrenzy]

[...]

At least they're self-aware.