trustfell | Take Responsibility.

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.

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[ that's cute, you think she still would've only killed one person— ]

Maybe so, maybe not. But if my personal touches are everywhere, why didn't you all just come right out and say it in the beginning~?

Because twice already I have been proven wrong about someone who I thought was a good person being anything but, and I wanted to make absolutely sure someone wasn't trying to frame you.

Though my question is, if this was all for fun and not because of anything in particular, why now? Why nearly two months in? That seems like a long time to wait for 'a little bit of fun'.

I got tired of being here, that's all.

[ ...It really is that simple. ]

I got super bored, so I decided to make my own fun, especially since someone said my parties were becoming pretty clockwork.

Edited 2017-10-28 21:04 (UTC)

[I mean, he was pretty sure that was the reason, but.]

My apologies for not breaking us out of here before boredom overtook you.

I totally don't think you could've done that, but you're like, forgiven anyway.

[ jesus, aligula. ]

[Jesus indeed.]

I'm not going to give up on that idea until I am dead. It's a shame you had to go and do this, though. With your help, we probably could have managed escaping sooner.