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]

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?

[adlucem]

[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]

[karmas]

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.

[adlucem]

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

[karmas]

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?

[adlucem]

[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.]

[karmas]

[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?

[adlucem]

Miss Alice asked if anyone had seen anything suspicious. I offered the only suspicious thing I'd seen. I thought it might help catch a murderer. It didn't.

[This interrogation is annoying, but it's necessary. He recognizes that much, so he won't walk away from it. That's... something, right?]

[karmas]

[It is something. She doesn't mean anything personal by it; her harshness is just how she conducts these kinds of discussions.]

Were you surprised that no one else offered anything suspicious they'd seen?

[adlucem]

Not really. Even if someone had seen something, people don't like to talk about unpleasant things. [And, y'know, there was the fear of getting murdered for speaking out, which... probably hasn't gotten much better?? It doesn't seem like anyone's got any useful information this time, either.]

[karmas]

And were you surprised that suspicion fell so heavily on Diva after what you said? Or did you believe her to be the most logical culprit?

[adlucem]

I already told you I thought she was capable of it. No one else saw anything suspicious, and she'd already been violent towards Charles, so it seemed to make the most sense. I didn't anticipate that level of interrogation, but I wasn't surprised that people began to suspect her. [If someone had been able to totally clear her name right away, then all of this would've been moot anyway. But alas, Diva was... Diva about it all...]

I didn't vote for her, though, if that makes a difference to you. [It doesn't really help clear his conscience, though, so if she doesn't care, it won't surprise him.]

[selfsufficiency]

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

[just saying]

[karmas]

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

[selfsufficiency]

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

[karmas]

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

[selfsufficiency]

...oh~?

[Alice smiles.]

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

[karmas]

No. [Smiling back. She doesn't care.] As I said, she's hardly spoken to anyone. And any fool who witnessed last week's fiasco wouldn't be so quick to blame for such arbitrary reasons. I'm not remotely concerned about suspicion on that account.

[subsisted]

[ 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.

[karmas]

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