62 | trial #3

DAY 6 (afternoon)
Complex Population: 27

At noon, the same tone from the morning rings out, and Judy's voice filters out over the intercom.

"Good afternoon, residents. As per Safety Protocol 6227-A, it is time to conduct a trial to bring justice for the victim. Please proceed to the courtroom on the first level."

Just as at night, if you don't go to the courtroom, you'll be treated to an electric shock of increasing strength until you go to the courtroom or are unconscious. Though considering the ominous penalty for not participating in a trial, you should likely just go rather than risk not voting because you've been knocked out by your own stubbornness... Once you're in the courtroom, you'll find that bottled water and light snacks are provided, but otherwise you'll have to bring anything else you may need.

As you come to your conclusions about who to vote for, you can step into the judgement theater to cast your vote at the terminal. You may change your vote as many times as you'd like, but at 7PM, your vote (or lack thereof) is locked in.

You have until 7PM to discuss and vote for who you think the murderer is.

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Uh... Aaaalvin? Are we doing Alvin? I'm not super into watching a thirteen year old get murdered on a hunch tonight. Don't think my stomach could take it.

... Gotta agree on that one. Anyway, you guys really think a middle schooler could take on Franziska? She was crazy.

[ he hates voting at all, he hates that he's been dragged into yet another psychopath's game, but what else can he do... ]

Edited 2016-10-23 02:29 (UTC)

But her whip was left in the bedroom, was it not? I spoke with Veronica and we believe that there's a chance she was unconscious when she was killed. We didn't find any sign of struggles - the attack wounds were definitely not the usual, brutal ones. Inexperienced, I'd say.

I dunno. You guys said she looked like she got hit in a few places, right? Why wouldn't they just kill her right away if she was unconscious?

Not sure. Wasn't there.

[ She does wonder then: ]

These bastards aren't doing this for kills to get their jollies off. We're all contained like lab rats... they're watching, always. Might be some experiment for all we know.

Trust me, I know.

[ and he doesn't like it one bit. he is so tired of this "lab rat" bullshit!! when will he be free. ]

But... if you look at it that way, then whatever injuries anyone has could mean anything. That's not helpful, either.

Someone was angry, I suppose. They wanted to take out their aggression on her. Which could either be personal - [glances over at Adam] - or they were angry over the loss of one of their own. Simple explanation, really.

Yeah, I get it, believe me. She wasn't exactly good at making friends.

[ that's rich coming from steve. ]

I just don't think she could sleep through someone beating her up.

That's what I thought-- that she was killed when asleep or unconscious, rather than awake and fighting. Not that that says much about who did it, since anyone can kill someone who's caught unaware just about.

I don't like this. Something seems off about how we're viewing her body.

Probably. So, how can we view it another way?

I - I don't know. I never had to investigate a body like that...

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grimdeity - 2016-10-23 02:51 (UTC) - Expand

I wouldn't discount him just because he's young. Plenty of people as young as him have killed where I've come from, and Cici seems like a very resourceful person.

...but I guess if it's not normal for people that young to kill where you guys are from, I can see why you wouldn't want to believe it.

You gotta be kidding. Wherever you come from is messed up, then.

I never said it wasn't!

I agree with Alice, I've known young people to kill as well.

[ WELL young trolls mainly ]

See? It's not unheard of.

She was hardly crazy, you're just a coward.

[ WOW ]

Oh, shut up, gramps! What kind of normal person threatens strangers with a whip? They don't!

How many times did she hit you with that whip? People like their scare tactics, I ain't gonna call that crazy.

[It is mean though, but. Stop being a weenie Steve.]

It's still crazy even if she didn't actually hit me with it! If you started swinging your dumb sword gun at me, I'd call you crazy, too.

[ he calls it dumb but in reality he wants one too ]