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.
plegia: (THOUGHTFUL ♛)

[personal profile] plegia 2017-02-25 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmmm.]

No one, technically. I wash this every night late at night, so it's possible someone took the fur from there. It's also possible that some of it came loose at any point. It sheds everywhere! Any sort of rigorous activity will get it to come loose, and as most of you know, I spend a lot of time in the dojo training.
foundfate: (suspicious of you)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
This place gets cleaned every night though, doesn't it? If it sheds, then the fur would have had to come from yesterday for someone to pick it up. Unless they had been planning this for a while.

[Or unless Gangrel is the killer, but. Yeah.]

Where all did you go yesterday?
plegia: (PAUSE ♛)

[personal profile] plegia 2017-02-25 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
The dojo, mostly. That and my room, but I don't let anyone in there.

[Well, not recently, anyway.]
foundfate: (...eh?)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you see anyone in the dojo yesterday?
plegia: (FRUSTRATION ♛)

[personal profile] plegia 2017-02-25 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[well since i didn't thread on thursday you'll just get a vague answer, i'm sorry]

I've sparred with a few people in there, but anyone could have walked in and picked up the fur!
foundfate: (thinking)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone who you've sparred with is more likely to have noticed the fur and to have taken it, though.
plegia: (FRUSTRATION ♛)

[personal profile] plegia 2017-02-25 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
They wouldn't do that.

[...and apparently he's just going to continue being the world's biggest pain in the ass and not volunteer any names. I am so sorry.]
foundfate: (You made a mistake)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jerk.]

I also thought Gold and Silver wouldn't co-conspire to murder someone, but last week's trial certainly did happen.
plegia: (GLANCE ♛ fuckin' grimleal)

[personal profile] plegia 2017-02-25 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[my how the tables have turned]

...Yes, I know.

[But he's also not helping.]
foundfate: (You made a mistake)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
What was it you called me last week? Stupid, for being blind to the guilt of my friends?

I think you're the one being stupid right now.
plegia: (DISTANT ♛ sorry about your sister (not))

[personal profile] plegia 2017-02-25 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Maybe he is.

But he's certainly not going to admit that.]
foundfate: (having to explain something)

[personal profile] foundfate 2017-02-25 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not escaping that without comment though.]

Hypocrite.