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

[liven]

What would they be using them for, though? They're a pain, but I'd prefer to know how the hell to get them off of me, not of dead people...

[selfsufficiency]

I'm not sure. I don't really know enough about them to know what you could use them for, but a staff member might.

[liven]

If we could catch one, we could torture it out of them.

[selfsufficiency]

[Alice's eyes light up. Alice, no...]

That's an option. ♡

[heroizes]

[ GIRLS NO ]

What? No. No, holy crap, you can't torture information out of people.

[ laughtrack from the audience that Soon To Be Handsome Jack said this ]

[liven]

Whyever not?

[ SHIJIMA, LIKE ALICE, SEES NO PROBLEMS WITH THIS since she. suggested it. ]

If they can kill people, can't we torture them? I don't understand how that isn't allowed.

[selfsufficiency]

Yeah, it's not like we're going to kill them. Just rough them up a little to make it harder for them to kill us! ♡

[liven]

I might kill them if they're not helpful.

[ tO BE FAIR

shijima sit down ]

[selfsufficiency]

...ooh. ♡

[THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHAT SOLIDIFIES ALICE LIKING SHIJIMA god]

[liven]

[ this is the worst friendship someone stop it ]

[heroizes]

Oh, I don't know, because it's wrong? Why am I seriously having to explain this?

[ also, why are you both 12 and talking to him about the merits of torture??? ]

That's- Look, we torture people, we're no friggin' better than they are! So, yeah, didn't think this exactly needed explanation. Does- Wait, does torture even work?

[selfsufficiency]

It worked to get information out of people where I come from.

[...well then.]

More reliably than just asking did, when people don't want to tell the truth. Desperate times call for desperate measures, right~? ♡

[heroizes]

What the shit?

[ Jack just has a moment of eloquence there, then makes a frustrated noise. ]

Wh- Why? You're- Oh my god, you're only old enough to go to college, why are you torturing people? And no, it doesn't! Desperate times mean you actually use your goddamn brain instead of your murder boner. [ wait ] Uh, generally speaking. It's just a saying.

[adlucem]

Miss Alice. [Okay, Leo has to pipe in here, because Alice is gonna get herself shanked if she keeps talking like this and she's the only one Leo really likes around this place...] Before we'd get into any of that, we'd still need some kind of a suspect.

[TONE IT DOWN GIRL]

[jackhole]

[ muttered from probably next to jack ]

Torture's probably a good avenue to explore though...

[ someone smack rhys ]

[liven]

Of course, we have to catch one, first. Then just leave them to Alice and I, if you have the problem of human scruples.

[heroizes]

[ Jack will absolutely smack Rhys... He just smacks him in the back of the head, because unlike the two girls, he can hit Rhys. ]

Don't agree with them. Why is everyone so cool with torture, what the hell.

[liven]

Torture often works. People will say many things to stop a certain amount of pain. Or death.

[ tHANKS CRAZY ]

[heroizes]

What- No, that's exactly why it's bullshit! I mean- I mean, hell, you give someone a purple nurple for ten seconds and they'd probably admit that they do have a foot fetish.

[ please don't get ideas from this ]

[modissty]

I don't see why it wouldn't, but jumping to the conclusion that torture would be needed at all is a little much.

[What if they squeal all on their own!! That'd be way less work.]

[heroizes]

See? That's—

[ He motions generally to Sakyou, but then deflates as he shakes his head. ]

Okay, admittedly, not super reasonable, but. Better. It's better than the rest of these torture-happy morons.

[injectors]

Last trial, Judy said she didn't wish to reveal the ankle monitor's capabilities to whoever is taking them. Are we certain even the staff would know what to use them for?

[A beat.]

... Though, I suppose if that's the case, they could be taking them in an attempt to figure it out.

[selfsufficiency]

...but that's weird.

[Her brow furrows as she thinks about it.]

If they're staff members, why don't they know how they work? If they work for the place that put them on us, I mean...

[injectors]

I don't have an answer for that, I'm sorry. But it's little more than an observation, anyway.

[selfsufficiency]

Keep making observations! The more we make, the more likely we are to catch the bastard that did this. ♡