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

Comments

[karmas]

The choice of target is odd, to say the least. [Franziska actually looks a little unsettled; much more than she might have seemed in the week past.] Last week, did we not fixate on the wrong individual because we assumed a grudge may have been the motive? And that led us to the wrong target.

Yet, the target this week is someone against whom there would not have been any grudge.

[selfsufficiency]

Right. So... why her?

[Alice wrinkles her nose.]

Either whoever did it just likes killing kids, or they don't care who they kill and she was a convenient choice somehow.

[karmas]

My assumption would be that Miss Rayfa Padma Khura'in kept to herself. Given that last week, accusations turned on encounters with the victim, the victim was someone none of the staff would have encountered.

[selfsufficiency]

[Franziska raises a very good point here - Alice is a little annoyed that she didn't think of it herself.

...which is probably why she's not super quick to turn away when she feels another sneeze coming on. Sorry, Franziska. She turns away midway through the sneeze instead of early enough to avoid it entirely.]

So then we need to consider anyone who didn't really talk to her... which is pretty much everyone.

[karmas]

Yes. The point is, our personal relationships with Miss Rayfa Padma Khura'in won't factor in.