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

[sunsong]

At least we're not gonna be entire islands like some of the others, though.

[ GIOVANNI, THE ONLY PERSON SOL HAS LEFT... ]

[oftheland]

Tell me about it. Here, it hasn't been too bad because of you and the inspector, but I'm literally the only person in my hall still alive.

[sunsong]

It's just Bakugou and I in ours...

[oftheland]

...do you think we should just start ignoring room assignments?

[sunsong]

If y'all want? It ain't like we don't have all the keys. I'm stayin' in mine, I have way too much stuff...but we have everyone else's keys, so, if anyone wants to move...

[ IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A RULE AGAINST IT. ]

[blazeit]

I have a bunch of keys belonging to empty rooms, moving around so we're all closer together is probably doable.

[blazeit]

You guys could just stand next to us next time.

[ Bakugou's surrounded by death here... ]

It'd be some symbolic shit of how we stand united or something, you know?

[perpend]

....You should do it.

[blazeit]

... Yeah. It'd probably feel better, if nothing else.

[sunsong]

No, you come stand by us. I don't want Reaver's podium.

[ SOL ]

[blazeit]

... That's fair, I wouldn't want it either.

[ these two ]

Hey, Jean, you come with me over to the other side of the circle too, we can stop being surrounded by emptiness and death.

[sunsong]

You can take up Morty and Mordecai's podiums - or the old man's. Obviously no one's gonna want Dio's, either.

[ GUYS, THE GHOSTS CAN PROBABLY SEE THIS ]

[openterrain]

... I'll take Mordecai's.

[blazeit]

Okay, I'll take Morty's, then.

[sunsong]

Done deal! And if anyone else wants to move over closer to us, they can, too.

[oftheland]

I'll take it if you don't want it, you know.

[sunsong]

Looks like Jean's movin' to Mordecai's, and Bakugou can have Morty's, then.

[ TAKE BACK THE SLICE OF DEATH ]

[openterrain]

She's got a point, Katsuki.

[sunsong]

[ these assholes ]