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

[announcemyvictory]

[Elise usually walks into the courtroom shaking and looking away, trying to cover up stress with her usual acting superior. This time, she's got her head up, doesn't even look at the Conductor's window when she takes her place at his side, and is looking to all the world like her only emotion is Done.

It helps that she's wearing a green dinosaur suit. Looks like she took your advice, Giovanni.]

We can assume that this disaster is because of that ridiculous incentive, but given what we've gone through every other week, whatever the situation is has to be more complicated than it appears. Let's run through what we've found. The body announcement went off when Bakugou, Weiss, and I discovered the body, just before Susan arrived, so that absolves three of us. What have all of you found?

[withabigsmile]

[Blue walks in with Wiggly by her side today, and- oh man.]

Nice outfit!

[oftheland]

[...bless you, Elise.]

Erm... Well, I found this in the garbage can of the women's restroom on the sixth floor?

[He sets a jam jar with a ball of toilet paper in it on his podium, and it... has some kind of white substance on it...]

I think whatever's on this was on the rim of one of the toilet seats, too..

[blazeit]

... Nice costume, princess. [ HE SEEMS TO REALLY MEAN IT... ]

Anyway, I remember this coming up in a previous trial, but I don't remember the details... can we refresh on the rules on when an announcement is made?

[icysemblance]

[So many people are gone. Weiss looks around, trying to at least take a little strength from them all before things start.]

Sukuyo didn't look dead. She looked asleep.

[announcemyvictory]

...it's laundry day.

[Sigh...]

CONDUCTOR

[openterrain]

Hold on. that's what I remember.

[ He glances to the Conductor's podium. ]

Hey, Observant! The body just has to be discovered by three people aside from the killer in total, not three people all at once. Right?

[ninehundredlives]

I've found a letter by the body. I'll pass it around, but...I wouldn't take it too seriously.

[Jean is closest, so Susan will hand the folded letter over to him.]

It says that it's from Sukuyo, and that she killed herself. It's very insistent.

[icysemblance]

...ew.

[Do we have any kind of gloves? Weiss doesn't even want to touch the jar without them.]

[announcemyvictory]

It looked like there was a bottle missing from the chemistry lab, though I don't go in there often enough to tell you what it would've been. Do you think they might be related?

[withabigsmile]

I'm serious! Own it, Elise!

[Blue please.]

[antitrust]

Three people total, yes.

[announcemyvictory]

What do you think I'm doing?

[what is wrong with your world. did your world spawn johnny. did it spawn woofio.]

[perpend]

[That's a little weird.]

Does anyone have samples of her handwriting to compare it to?

[openterrain]

[ Jean reads it, and... ]

Well... it sounds like her, but would she just leave a note?

[blazeit]

[ He'll wait for Jean to pass it to him before making further commentary, but he's already got something to add! ]

I searched her room and found a note there too. There were two weird things about it, the first that it was crumbled up and shoved under all the blankets on her bed.

It was a letter to the Conductor. Couldn't tell what she was trying to say, though, it got cut off.

[ninehundredlives]

It was probably this.

[Susan holds up a bottle.]

Strychnine. It was by the body too.

suicide tw

[announcemyvictory]

Well, insistent certainly sounds like her, but do you think she'd have done it? Does it say why?

[oftheland]

Yes, remember what I told you, Elise. Wear it like you mean it.

[announcemyvictory]

To the Conductor? Do the notes match at all? Handwriting-wise, like when we were checking the petitions.

[blazeit]

That's fucking disgusting. Whoever put it there, even if you have a reason, that's fucking disgusting.

[ THINK ABOUT WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE BEFORE DOING THEM ]

[ninehundredlives]

I don't know. But if she was really going to just kill herself, why would she be so worried about if we investigated or not?

[openterrain]

See?

[ Jean folds his arms. ]

And Weiss just said Sukuyo looked like she was just resting. We can't discount that someone else might have seen her earlier and not realized what was wrong.

[announcemyvictory]

I see. And that's what would have been used... in that case, I've got no idea about Giovanni's jar.

[oftheland]

Oh, well, that's a relief.