Take Responsibility.

[transmittable]

Four people were found dead this week. With that many down, it's difficult to ignore the drop in your numbers - you've gone from just under two-thirds to exactly half of your original number in one day. And given the way things tend to work around here, there are going to be even fewer of you left by the time the day is over. Is it wearing you down yet? Even if it is, the investigation period comes and goes, as it always does, and those doors in the center of the second corridor slide open for the sixth time in as many weeks. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater fill the room with light, bright and steady, as soon as the first person walks in; as always, those seats surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room remain unsettlingly unoccupied. Six more have joined the ranks of the deceased this time, their absence glaringly obvious; Nozomi, Krauser, McGillis, Corrin, Rose and Rin have all had their absences acknowledged in the usual way, their greyed-out portraits set atop their black-swathed podiums, observing the proceedings with unseeing eyes. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, the public-address system crackles its way back on; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. "Composed, Sororal, Gracious, and Courageous... They've all been killed. ...You guys know what to do. The number of victims doesn't, uh, change that. Put together your evidence, find whoever's responsible for these deaths. You know what'll happen if you can't. Good luck." Fifteen Patients remain. We'll see how many leave at the end of the day.

Comments

[cthulwho]

Was he proficient with crossbows...?

[preciousking]

Dunno. Seen him using one at night before, though.

[cthulwho]

So it could have been a weapon he'd select to attack with or defend himself with, at the very least...

[Hm.]

And yet he ended up with a knife in his hand. Did he bring multiple weapons...?

[preciousking]

[ Shrug. ] Never seen him with a knife before.

[ But it ain't like he patted McGillis down every time they met so who knows if he had one concealed on him. ]

[georgeous]

From what was discussed earlier, it was probably planted post-mortem to make him look like Corrin's killer.

[imaginex]

Then the crossbow was his actual weapon?

[Frowning]

Or was that also a set-up?

[georgeous]

I'd think it was his real weapon. The killer might have wanted to remove it, but since the bolt was stuck in the wall, they couldn't simply make it disappear.

[imaginex]

Mm, that makes sense... removing the bolt and crossbow would've made the knife seem more credible, but if they couldn't, better to leave everything where it was.

[cthulwho]

[Well yes that would be pretty weird.]

Not many of us walked around with knives out in the open, so that is understandable.

I believe some of the others suggested that some items may have been planted... May as well keep it in mind.

[Since things seem a little foggy right now.]

[yourpiecenow]

Probably. He looked ready to fucking rumble.

[cthulwho]

Perhaps. I believe he told me he was a soldier as well, so he at least might have been able to fight back if he was the one attacked.

[Or strike first, whichever it was.]

[yourpiecenow]

He wasn't just a soldier. He was, like, an oppressing force fighting to keep down a popular rebellion.