62 | trial #2

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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[Leo is not volunteering any names for this trial whatsoever. It helps that he has nothing of interest to report anyway, having largely kept to himself after the Diva fiasco. Even if he'd voted to abstain, it still feels like it was his fault, and that's enough to make him want to sit silently in a corner until they're all killed or set free.

He doesn't do that, though, despite naturally antisocial inclinations. Mostly because he's too damn curious about the stupid monitors.]

The victims... they couldn't have done it to themselves, could they? [He's notably hesitant as he speaks, up, sitting on the floor with his knees drawn up.] I heard a theory that these monitors were being used to track us... if Charles or Rayfa managed to take them off themselves, maybe they were killed for it.

What an utterly foolishly ridiculous theory. [Snapping her whip for emphasis.] You suggest that a frightened child like Rayfa Padma Khurain cut off her own foot?

[Well, he'd just warmed up to her for her vote of confidence, but apparently that's been shot now?? It's hard to see through his bangs, but he rolls his eyes.]

You're right, someone terrified of their mind would never do anything desperate for the sake of freedom. What's next, a group of people getting dumped into a strange place with no memory of how they got there?

[/sarcasm font]

How would she even have gotten a weapon to cut her own foot off? It is plain you advance this theory for no reason other than to assuage your own guilty conscience.

You just said you didn't think any of her roommates would have done it. [PICK A SIDE FRANZISKA]

No. Not your guilty conscience in killing her. Your guilty conscience in accusing Diva.

Explain yourself. What made you decide to come forward with what you saw? Did you honestly believe attacking Charles Fei-Ong with a candlestick was evidence of a later, separate crime?

[Oh, that. He simmers down a little, shoulders dropping.]

It was a candleholder, and a big one at that. And with the way she attacked him? Yes, I did think it wasn't impossible she was capable of killing him. I wouldn't have mentioned it if she hadn't seemed off to me. [And he was wrong, thanks for reminding him. As if he could forget.]

[Sorry, she has no tact.]

When you brought this up, did you believe her to be the culprit? Or did you believe you were submitting only one piece of evidence?

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How do you know if she was frightened or not, if none of us really talked to her?

[just saying]

I am an impeccable judge of character, being a prosecutor.

...how can you judge the character of someone who's already dead?

I met her when she was alive, when we first woke.

...oh~?

[Alice smiles.]

Is that why you're so insistent that it was probably someone who hasn't spoken to her that did it?

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[ leo's a weird looking kid but a kid all the same, so: ]

You'd be surprised how much a person is capable of with enough adrenaline in them.

Considering how the monitors seem to keep us in place, however, if they'd figured out a way to get them off, staff might be a position where they have no choice but to act.

[ it's only a theory, and she doesn't sound convinced, but. ] In both cases, the monitor is gone. Either we're dealing with someone sending a message, or the monitors are factoring in more than we assumed.

Perhaps the staff remove the monitor before they kill, to avoid detection by one of their enemies?

Charles wouldn't have. [She can say this much of him.] We were in the same room and spoke a couple times. He didn't seem afraid of what was happening, and was confident in his own ability to survive. I can't imagine he would do something to purposefully endanger his life.

I see. [Well, it was a crap theory, but Leo's familiar with desperate circumstances, so it was worth putting out there. Even if it was a little too fairy tale, hoping someone wasn't going around chopping off feet.] I just-- I don't understand these things. [Punching his own ankle monitor, but it's half-hearted. He's already struggled with it.] I can understand wanting them off, but someone else wanting to collect them... why?

Well... it could be done as proof that the staff caused the murder? If only they have the proper tools to dismember the foot, it's a way of them giving us a message. That they were the ones who killed this person.

[Do they have enough murderers around that they would even need to specify that... (yes, Leo, yes they do.)]

If we could find wherever they're getting these tools... [But no, that still wouldn't help, not really. Leo's read a lot of books; according to them, people can get awfully creative when they want you dead. He sighs, pressing the heel of his palm against his forehead.] I don't know. We need to find something, we can't just accuse innocent people. Not again.

[HE'S SORRY DIVA...]

Even if that's true or not, how will we know? Are you going to cut off your own foot to find out?

[ it's asked mostly in curiosity, rather than anything else; he doesn't seem to be mad at leo nor calling his suggestion absurd. ]

If I thought anything would really come of it, then yes, I would try it. [If it meant getting back home, back to Elliot and his place as the weird, quiet servant in the background, then it would be an easy sacrifice.] But it doesn't look like losing the monitor is making it any easier to get out of this place.

I like the way you think.

[ +1 to bad ideas and risky thinking. ]

But, you're right. The only way to get out of this place is to find whoever's behind this — and get rid of them. Not through giving our feet to some feet collector.

[Thanks Dazai... you weirdo...

It's true though, Leo is pretty good at both of those things. Probably this will never end in blood and tears.]

Has anyone made any progress with Miss Judy? She told me there's something connecting all of us, but she wouldn't tell me what it was. That's all I've managed to learn from her. [Well, that and the fact that she refused to clarify if it was physically impossible to leave or not, but. They can worry about that when they find the exit.]

All I've learned from Judy is that if the votes tie and that there are two people chosen to die, there'll still only be one executioner. When we're trying to figure out who the staff is among us, I don't think what I've learned is actually... useful. Sorry about that.

[ but maybe it's good to know for future reference? ]

It's still good to know. Thank you.

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