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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.

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Yes, he...told me something about a charger...?

[lusamine save them you're right there]

[ batteries. right. ]

Viktor-san may have turned his phone off to conserve battery power.

[...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.]

Is there a way to check how much charge it is? Did he even have this cord?

[ ... ARE THERE ELECTRICAL OUTLETS HERE??? ]

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.]

[ . . . ]

There's a lot of things on the screen here! Someone else check it!

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.

[ SHOVES PHONE IN LUSAMINE'S HANDS.

YOU LOOK ]

[Alright, let's take a looksie. What kind of battery charge are we looking at here?]

[It's at about 50%!]

It's about half charged.

Wow, that's a good battery for how often he uses the thing. He's had it all over the place at the meeting and such.

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Perhaps the Wordsmith disabled certain settings on the phone, in order to minimize the power usage. I know that certain light settings and applications can put a strain on the battery.

Well, why don't you try and look for those? While you're at it, maybe there's more me and Orihime didn't find.

[ At the very least, it'll give her something to do that isn't stressing over Gangrel ]

I'll try, at least.

[Alright, she's...gonna look around on the phone here to see what's actually in this damn thing. Is there anything of particular note that's missing from the phone...?]

[There's nothing else to see here, actually! You've gotten all the information from the phone that you need!]

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