wordsmithery: (Static)
The Wordsmith ([personal profile] wordsmithery) wrote in [community profile] trusthell2017-02-25 12:00 pm

Take Responsibility.

The time allotted for investigation this week is a bit longer than normal - not due to anything done wrong on the part of the Apprentices, but perhaps due to a basic understanding that two corpses are going to be decidedly more difficult to handle than one. However, at the end of the time period you've been given, the elevator is waiting for you, as cold and sterile as always in its journey up to the courtroom; you're down to almost half of your original number, and if anything is going to indicate that this shows no signs of stopping, it's probably this week.

The deceased have had three more join their numbers since you were here last - Gold, Varric, and Viktor's portraits have been greyed-out and set atop their spots in the podium circle, the podiums themselves draped in black fabric.

As always, the lectern above stands empty.

Whether he's with you or not, however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith's voice can be heard throughout the room.

"Welcome back. Two more Apprentices are missing from your number today, and I have little doubt that weighs heavily on your minds. Balanced and Capricious have been lost to you, so that the guilty may have a chance to leave the academy and possibly even gain something otherwise impossible to attain.

If you wish for your fallen Apprentices to receive justice in death, then you know what to do: yet again, hold the guilty accountable.
"

Sixteen Apprentices remain. However many leave here at the end of the day has yet to be seen.
oyashiromama: red in tooth and red in claw (sheltered by the night)

[personal profile] oyashiromama 2017-02-25 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't say thank you, but she does look grateful, and- ...hey, what's that Elda's got?]

Are those... where did you find those?

[She's looking at the creampuff wrappers with slight confusion.]
matchbreaker: (Depression News)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a lot of them in the art room. Some of them were still gooie.

Why, you know what they are?

[ She kinda put them all in a bag. ]
oyashiromama: (lies a swarm of silhouettes)

[personal profile] oyashiromama 2017-02-25 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
They're wrappers from creampuffs. From some of the reheatable ones, in the freezer.

[Puzzled.]

Why...would they be in the art room?
matchbreaker: (LOCK IT)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, you tell me. Someone also had wet pink paint out. The watercolor sort! All of it was right next to Viktor's digital phone thing. [ That's "Cell phone..." ]
oyashiromama: (so look at you look at me)

[personal profile] oyashiromama 2017-02-25 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It...Viktor's? But he wouldn't have left it there. Who would've... What...would they be painting...? And the creampuffs...au...

[She looks clueless.]
matchbreaker: (Depression News)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Right?! And there's no paint on any of the wrappers, look yourself. So whoever was working with it didn't really mess with it... or did something else.

[ Wait, no, she's remembering something- ]

Wait, no, the phone was on a different table. It was close by though.
Edited 2017-02-25 17:54 (UTC)
tsugomori: (☾ ?)

[personal profile] tsugomori 2017-02-25 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe Viktor was with someone else in the art room. The other person may have been eating those creampuffs... ah, but what was going on besides 'painting' does elude me.
matchbreaker: (Kanye West)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have any evidence of that?

[ I mean, it's not illogical, but. ]
tsugomori: (☾ hmm)

[personal profile] tsugomori 2017-02-25 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
He had his phone in there, right? So he must have brought it in there with him.
introspects: (pic#10955805)

[personal profile] introspects 2017-02-25 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe Viktor-san went to the art room after he met up with Varric-san, because he definitely would have brought his phone with him to their meeting to show the photos of his homeworld.
tsugomori: (☾ ?)

[personal profile] tsugomori 2017-02-25 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods... ]

That would make sense, given the note...

[ Hmm... ]

I wonder if afterwards, Viktor wanted to paint something else from his homeworld? Then, for whatever reason, he seemed to head to the music room. Why would he go into the music room? If he turned off his phone, it seems rather abrupt to stop from what he was doing then to head into there, unless he was lead into there.
matchbreaker: (POLKA DOT IT)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, probably, but why leave it? And why turn it off?
oyashiromama: (but i'm already there‚ i'm already there)

[personal profile] oyashiromama 2017-02-25 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
To conserve power. ...How much is left on it, right now? Is there a way to check?

[Being from the 80s is suffering.]
matchbreaker: (She-Hulk!)

not mods oops sorry

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
So this thing has batteries?

[ Someone save them? She hold it out to Hanyuu but she has no idea either. ]
Edited 2017-02-25 18:35 (UTC)
oyashiromama: old and empty house (i don't like walking around this)

[personal profile] oyashiromama 2017-02-25 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, he...told me something about a charger...?

[lusamine save them you're right there]
introspects: (pic#8947177)

[personal profile] introspects 2017-02-25 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ batteries. right. ]

Viktor-san may have turned his phone off to conserve battery power.
elepe: (SHOCK ❇ Mind repeating that slowly)

[personal profile] elepe 2017-02-25 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[...let her stop being afraid for the sake of a tyrant king for a moment to sort of look into that--]

Ah, if it's one of the phones I'm thinking of...the battery is rechargeable, and requires a cord with an electrical outlet to charge up. That's the charger.

[If. That helps.]
matchbreaker: (WITH CRUEL INTENTIONS)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a way to check how much charge it is? Did he even have this cord?

[ ... ARE THERE ELECTRICAL OUTLETS HERE??? ]
foundfate: (thinking)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The phone should say right on it somewhere.

[He's from 2003 so the cell phones he knows are much less advanced, but they still say the amount of charge they have on them.]
matchbreaker: (So-So on this one tbh)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . ]

There's a lot of things on the screen here! Someone else check it!
elepe: (STATE ❇ All eyes on me please)

[personal profile] elepe 2017-02-25 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually the phone has a battery with the percentage next to it. Or if it's an older model, a battery with three levels--fully charged, half charged, and low charge. If you work it particularly low, it will show an empty battery that blinks. That's when you know that it will shut itself off soon, if you don't charge it.
matchbreaker: (WITH CRUEL INTENTIONS)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-02-25 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SHOVES PHONE IN LUSAMINE'S HANDS.

YOU LOOK ]
elepe: (STATE ❇ All eyes on me please)

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[personal profile] elepe 2017-02-25 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alright, let's take a looksie. What kind of battery charge are we looking at here?]
trustwellness: (Default)

[personal profile] trustwellness 2017-02-25 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's at about 50%!]
elepe: (MMMHMM ❇ I'll pretend I'm listening)

[personal profile] elepe 2017-02-25 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It's about half charged.

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