Take Responsibility.

[andexecutioner]

The door at the northwestern corner of the foyer is open. It's hard to say when it opened, but the fact of the matter is that it seems to have; it leads to a separate hallway that seems to run alongside the dormitories. The hall is long and dimly-lit, but it's illuminated well enough to make it plain that the walls and floor in here are different; they're far less designed to give off an impression of grandeur - if anything, it's claustrophobic back here: the walls are close and darkly-colored, and the entire area is barren until it opens up into the room serving as your destination. The room is circular and high-ceilinged, covered in more of the exposed wood that lines the rest of the building; there aren't any visible lights, however, which is...odd, given how bright the place is. It lends the entire area a sense of unreality; it's easy to distract yourself from it, however, once you notice this place's centerpiece. In the center of the room is a circle of podiums, thirty in total, arranged so that everyone standing at them can see each other. So everyone can look each other in the eyes, if they so choose. The podiums are interlocked - there's no cutting across the center of the circle, and for good reason, it looks like there's a lot of nothing down there where the floor should be - and each is bearing the title of the person who's assigned to stand at it. No names, just adjectives, emblazoned across two brass panels on the very top and the front of each podium. Affixed to the podium itself is a panel with buttons on it, and again, there are thirty in total; next to the buttons are smaller strips of engraved metal to serve as labels, bearing the titles of everyone that's been present in the facility, living or dead. All of the podiums are identical, except for the one intended for Sayaka. The podium that should bear Attentive's title has had a black cloth draped over it, and a copy of Sayaka's profile photo is sitting on top of it, framed and colorless, an image in greyscale. Juri is nowhere to be found in here, but that doesn't mean you're alone down here; the feeling that you're being watched is strong, and he'll wait until you've had time to take in what you're looking at before he addresses you - over the public-address system again, from the sound of it. "Attentive's dead, and somebody's to blame for it - but you guys get to decide whether Rule Seven's carried out or not. It's your job to hold them responsible for what they've done. Good luck in doing it."

Comments

[hesperos]

[ He seems to ponder something else though. Maybe it was about what Brady said. ]

Also, why would the killer leave bloodied tissues in Sayaka's room, besides them thinking no one would bother to check?

[passional]

[ Inigo shrugs. ]

I'm not sure, to be honest. I can't think of a good reason.

[hesperos]

[ Hmm, he thinks for a moment...he then arrives to a conclusion. Possibly? ]

To try to make it difficult for us to deduce they might've been injured</b, maybe, depending on the size of the wound. Tissues could be more discrete than other things. And If we thought it was Sayaka's we wouldn't think about it too much or something.

[passional]

...In that case, we should check for wounds.

[hesperos]

...Is it going to have to come down to doing a full strip search or something?

[ He hopes not. ]

[gorira]

At this point, it may just have to. If the only thing we know about the culprit is that they might be wounded...

[fivepints]

[oh my god.]

Can we not.

[gorira]

You have any better ideas?! The knife thing was a bust, and everything else has us stonewalled! If the only thing we know about the killer is that they're wounded, then, that's the best lead we have, isn't it?

[glaciates]

We don't have anything else? There's no way to narrow it down further?

[This feels really hopeless...]

[gorira]

Look, I'm not happy about it, either. You really think I wanna see everyone here strip?

[flagitate]

Seriously?

[ She doesn't have anything to hide, but.... ]

[gorira]

Help me come up with something better, and we won't have to.

[fortunatedetective]

[Oh god, please. Naoto is mentally begging this to not to happen. Maybe there'd be some bargaining?]

H-How much would we have to strip, exactly?

[myfedorarocks]

Are you serious?

[can we not do this??]

[oasisrose]

That's not a bad idea.

Um... should I just roll up my sleeves, though? You guys can see everything else already, right?

[passional]

I don't really like it, but if nobody has any better ideas... [ Gods, he'd rather not strip in front of the group. ]

[poultryfists]

Sounds like a party.

[Shit man if they have to get undressed in front of everybody to get somewhere, that is a price she's willing to pay.]

[seventhprogenitor]

I wouldn't be against it, I suppose, but... I'm not very much to look at, and it takes a while for me to get undressed in the first place.

[Look at his fucking outfit and tell me the the top half doesn't take an hour itself.]

[innocentloveholic]

[ BZZZZZZZT ]

I'm totally not stripping in front of all of you! This body's for my sweetheart's eyes only! [ ................ ] I'll do it in front of the girls if I have to, but no guys!

[ PROTECT ALIGULA'S PURITY 2K16 ]

[oasisrose]

Of course we're not going to have the girls getting undressed in front of the guys!

I'm sure there's something we can use for modesty.

[hesperos]

We can probably do something with the blankets. It's not like I want to really see anything, anyway.

[ He doesn't want to really want to see everyone naked tbqh. This is a pain, why did he have to open his big mouth........!! ]

[notaccurate]

You do realize that there are girls who like other girls, right?

[didntgetdadslooks]

A... strip search?

[UM.]

As long as someone can cover me, this outfit doesn't have, um... it's just a suit.

[mylanceisbiggerthanyours]

D-do we h-hafta....??

[Oh there's the timid Nephenee everyone's used to, and she's red as a beet.]

[losthisflower]

...I shall leave that to the rest of you.

[NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THREE THOUSAND YEAR OLD NAKED MAN probably]