Take Responsibility.

[transmittable]

This week isn't a good week - for anyone, it seems. The death doesn't seem to have gone over particularly well with anyone, whether captive or captor; it's difficult to say, for the time being, what will ultimately come of it - and how well the case will be solved, given that this is yet another hit to your number. There are so few of you now. Even so, there are still things to be done and processes to be carried out; the allotted time for investigation comes and goes, leaving only the sound of the courtroom doors sliding open again in their wake. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater illuminate the room as soon as the first person enters, their light bright and steady; the seats on the upper level remain unoccupied where they're surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room. Danny and Ryoji's greyed-out portraits have joined those indicating the absence of the deceased, the podiums they rest upon draped in black as they watch the proceedings through unseeing eyes. The public-address system crackles back to life once everyone has found their place in the circle; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. She's at least a little more composed, but her words shake. "Amiable's...gone. Figure out what happened, and- and do what you have to. For his sake. Good... Good luck." Nine Patients remain. However many leave here today is up to you.

Comments

[dangerousfool]

No, no blood at all. Weird, right? Because when humans get shot, there's a lot of blood spilled.

[georgeous]

Ryoji wasn't human.

[dangerousfool]

Oh. Right.

[Wheatley tilts his head]

It's hard not to think of him as a human? Because he looked like one and all. So...would Ryoji bleed?

[georgeous]

Well, was there blood found on the corpse? If not, then we have the answer.

[arebetter]

Trust me, his wounds had blood in them.

[georgeous]

.. oh. Alright.

That just means nobody was injured in the workshop then.

[arebetter]

That makes sense. I didn't see any defensive wounds or anything, just the... gunshots.

[ossifragant]

...Guess I must have been too shaken to have noticed.

[He had been trying not to look too closely.]

[ossifragant]

Ryoji was the avatar of death. I doubt he bled.

[preciousking]

... Yeah, there is.

That means he wasn't killed in there. [ Which George already said but w/e. ]

[ossifragant]

Did anyone find a lot of blood anywhere? Even a clean-up job would have involved needing to dump it somewhere, there's no possible way the killer had time to be thorough.

[crywiththesaints]

That and we've already seen how planted blood looks, thanks to Gant's little escapade.

[preciousking]

And Doug's before that.

Somethin' about this seems a little off, though. If someone ambushed him and had a gun, you'd think they would've hit him. Or we'd at least see bullet holes somewhere.

[ossifragant]

Didn't Pizzazz say he was struck in the heart?

[preciousking]

Yeah, but that would've happened in the chapel. Not the workshop.

[ossifragant]

Maybe he was ambushed in the chapel, and the only thing that happened in the workshop was him working on the unicorn?

[preciousking]

Don't think so. George mentioned a gunshot fired from the workshop and Wheatley said there was a struggle.

[arebetter]

He was hit in the shoulder and in the heart, but... that might have happened in the chapel. Maybe the gun was backup in case they couldn't kill him in the workshop?

[crywiththesaints]

That makes as much sense as anything. Did you find anything out of the ordinary there? Wheatley did say it must have been a fight.

[arebetter]

I mean I only looked over the body, but it makes sense if you look at some of the other stuff. Bullets in the hallway wall and in the pews, then a shot in the shoulder as he ran and one to his heart to... finish him off.