62 | trial #2

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.

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We were told there's staff among us. We're assuming more than one person. The one taking the monitor doesn't have to be the one using it.

But if they're all staff members, it doesn't matter which one we catch, right? They're all out to get us. [Alice shrugs.] So we have to get them first, even if the one who would know about that kind of thing isn't the one who did the killing this time.

Perhaps. In the long run, it would be beneficial, but we don't know the status of people's innocence or guilt until the choice is made.

But we're still going to have to make that choice, so it might as well be one that could get us something in the long run if we're right. ♡

Then you will have to get the others to agree to take a chance on killing an innocent person.

There's always going to be that chance, but if it's a conclusion we've come to by thinking about the little evidence we have, I think people will go for it. It's better than just guessing blindly, which is what they seem to want us to do.