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

[hesperos]

Yeah. Maybe it'd be a good idea to look at people's hands and arms first, then.

[ Granted he usually just thinks of hands first, but maybe the secondary is likely as well. ]

[heritrix]

We can also do a clothing check. Regardless of why the tourniquets were made, we found them.

[She holds up the scraps of black fabric she found.]

I'm not sure what these used to be, but I was thinking at the time they might have come from someone's clothes. I doubt they're still wearing the ripped up ones, but what everyone is and isn't wearing might be just as good to keep in mind.

[chessturner]

...

[Kyrie thinks for a moment]

Don't we have a sewing room? It's more likely the fabric came from there.

[heritrix]

Wouldn't they bother to cut it properly if they got it from there? This fabric is ripped.

[hesperos]

We could. So I guess to get it over with, at the same time.

[ He's going to come along and do a check of those things, then. Though... he wouldn't mind having a second set of eyes as he does so. ]

I'm gonna go ahead and get right on that, then. If you want, you can look over too in the event I miss something.

[ Or anyone else can as well, but yeah. Off he goes. ]

[heritrix]

Yeah, I'll follow behind you.

[To the check!]