trial #2

[judgejudy]

DAY 4 (afternoon) Complex Population: 32 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. — ic rulebook character statuses character profiles Voting will close at 9PM EST on 10/15. voting

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[selfdenying]

You investigated the foot? The one in the fountain?

[.....Huh.]

Do you know if anyone else touched it? It's not still there, is it?

[liven]

We threw it back in.

[ SO UH...I GUESS...IF NO ONE CLEANED THAT UP?????????? IT MIGHT BE THERE STILL?????? ]

I just looked. I wanted a better idea of what was used to cut off the foot.

[judgejudy]

[ it is indeed still there ]

[liven]

[ thanks mods

and i guess shijima and alice for fucking leaving the foot there what the fuck ]

[selfdenying]

Interesting. Obviously, we can't experiment at the current moment, but if touching the foot makes you have a cold...

[It's a weird correlation. As far as he knows, you can't really get infected by parts of dead bodies...maybe it has something to do with the fluids? Ugh, he's no doctor.]

What was the cut like? Clean, or ragged?

[liven]

Clean, but not as clean as it could be. I'd guess power tool or something might've been used.

[ don't ask why the fuck the apparent 13 year old has experience in this? though her profile says she's. 200 - 300 years old. ]

[selfdenying]

That actually narrows it down to it being in the technology lab, since there are power tools there and blood was found on one of the terminals.

[But wait a second...]

If he was killed in the lab with the tools, how did he end up in that operating room? Unless he had the amputation first, and was killed later in the room...

[liven]

For all we know the victims are drugged. I'm not sure speculation on the "how" will help us here, when we can at least be certain most of us sleep oddly well through the night...presumably.

[ since, like. ]

I'm a very light sleeper usually. And I'm more nocturnal than I'm not. However, I sleep through the night every time here.

[selfdenying]

I definitely believe there is something off with the monitors, and that theory of drugs being used makes sense.

It may be why the ankle monitor goes missing with each murder - they don't want us to find out exactly how it operates.

[liven]

Ah, that makes sense. More sense than "staff" not knowing how it works...

[ since. you work here, staff. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NEED TO CUT THINGS OFF PEOPLE TO SEE THEM. ]

[selfdenying]

If they didn't know how it worked, they would just need one of those things. Besides, if they aren't drugged during the night like the rest of us, why would they not know what it does?

[LOGIC, SHIJIMA]

Either way, they're gone somewhere, so we're back at square one as far as what the meaning of them is.

[liven]

People brought it up the last time and a few others...that's the reason I mentioned it.

[ a shrug. ]

Basically, it's cat and mouse, isn't it? Only we can't see the mice.