Take Responsibility.

[antitrust]

After a while, the door at the bottom of those stairs unlocks and it swings open gently of its own accord, allowing everyone back down into the courtroom; it's not as bad as it was last week, but again, there are decidedly fewer of them than there were last time. The podium circle has changed once again, with Rick, Tabby and Sukuyo joining the ranks of the deceased, their podiums draped with black cloth and adorned with greyscale photographs. The shadows are quiet down in the darkness of the pit; for the time being, it's hard to say what the pit itself looks like after the explosion last week. One way or another, we'll find out by the end of the day. As usual, the proceedings are being watched from behind that panel of glass behind podium 30; he'll speak as soon as everyone has found their place in the circle. "Familial has been taken from you. Regardless of what her affiliation was – whether she was with me or the lot of you – you know what you have to do by now. There can be no hesitation; you should offer no mercy. It's you against the guilty. Take control of your fate, and hold them responsible." Ten Participants remain. However many more we lose today is up to you.

Comments

[withabigsmile]

...What about a cloth? Like a napkin?

Could you suffocate someone with that?

[blazeit]

I mean... if your hand's big enough, you could suffocate a person that way too.

[sunsong]

Yeah, but again, the signs of suffocation are pretty different from what Susan apparently found, right? It's not like suffocation is a nice way to go.

[blazeit]

I think so too. Her dying from being laced with sleeping pills seems more likely, I think?

The point is, I don't think the cloth was used to suffocate her. Jean also said that it was probably pretty big, so that doesn't match up with using it to suffocate her either.

[sunsong]

Yeah, I concur about that bein' a more likely cause of death. That or some other sort of pill...

In that case...what do we think someone would have burned up...? It clearly had to be incriminatin', somehow.

[blazeit]

There's no evidence that the killer was injured, so it's probably not for that reason... But the only thing I can think of is there was something on the cloth.

[sunsong]

That makes sense to me...I'm just blankin' on what would be on it. Maybe they got rat poison on their shirt or something?

[icysemblance]

It would have been easy enough to just wash the shirt, though, right? They wouldn't have needed to burn it just from that.

[sunsong]

Yeah...you're right, that's proooooobably not it.

[ WHY'D THE KILLER HAVE TO BE A DICK AND BURN STUFF. ]

[openterrain]

There were no stains or anything on the cloth I could see...

[ Ugh, this is complicated... ]

You said Sukuyo's bedsheets were all messed up. Were any missing?

[announcemyvictory]

Do you think a sheet was used to carry evidence and throw it in that way?

[blazeit]

Or maybe it was used to carry the body. If somebody wasn't strong enough to pick it up, you could place the body on it and... drag it.

[announcemyvictory]

In that case, they'd just get rid of it because putting it back would probably cause questions, right? They know people always check the victim's room.

[blazeit]

The only problem with that is that there were no sheets or anything like that missing from the victim's room. But maybe they felt guilty looking at it and wanted to get rid of it...?

[icysemblance]

Wouldn't the body have more bruises on it if it were dragged, though? Assuming she was killed on the 6th floor, that's a long way to drag someone down the stairs.

[blazeit]

Not if she was killed in her room.

[icysemblance]

That's true. If she was killed in her room, it wouldn't be all that far to the dining hall, and the initial drop to the floor when she died could have caused the bruising on her face.

[announcemyvictory]

I still don't understand why they'd set any of this up. We still don't know who did it.

[icysemblance]

The 'how' of it may lead to the 'why'.

[blazeit]

No, they were just all bunched up.