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

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[subsisted]

[ thank fuck she got off bigby's case, but anyway. ] Luke's uninvolved. He tried to help with Diva's interrogation. Furthermore, he was only following a suggestion by someone else.

I cannot speak for Elizabeth, but I believe neither of us would have considered Diva had it not been for the fact she attacked the victim at all. You are forgetting that neither of us were the ones to bring up Diva's involvement with Charles - as far as I know, neither of us were even aware they had spoken.

What else do you want to know, Franziska?

[karmas]

Nothing. But perhaps the others have questions.

[betraitor]

You think maybe the one who pointed fingers about who killed the kid in the first place could be suspicious?

[just asking, for real.]

[subsisted]

[ man she does not like pointing fingers but... ] It's certainly what got us going on the assumption, initially. Without the information, Diva wouldn't have been interrogated.

[chiseler]

But...wouldn't that be Leo then? [He's trying to remember everything, but he remembers hearing about it, remembers talking to Lara about overhearing that Diva hit Charles with Atlas.] I do wonder why he's cleared from this list if we're going off of those outspoken about Diva.

[subsisted]

I believe it was him, yes. If I'm not mistaken, she eliminated Leo for being too obvious. [ does she agree with that? who knows. ] I'll say that sometimes the most obvious answer can be the correct one... I - I'm not ready to point a finger, though.

[chiseler]

[The face he makes in response is enough to tell Lara that he thinks that's really stupid.]

I'm not ready to point fingers yet either but I also know it's incredibly foolish to eliminate somebody for being too obvious. Anybody knows that that would be precisely what a murderer would want in a case like this. It's human nature to brush over the obvious but...why? Why shouldn't it get the same treatment?

[subsisted]

I'm not the prosecutor. [ bitterly. ] But you're right. He deserves to have his name cleared like we all do.

[betraitor]

[he's not doing it to point fingers... but he also likes a lot of the people being indicated right now so wtf.]

Listen, at this point, we probably shouldn't rule anything out. If that ended up being the case, then it worked and we took the bait.

[subsisted]

[ she's folding her arms because leo is? a kid? ]

I was so sure of it. Nothing else made sense. I should have questioned myself more - [ but this isn't #manpain hour ] But you're right. When we took everyone else off the table, that's when we made our mistake. We made too strong of a case for Diva.

[betraitor]

Yeah, we did. We didn't spend enough time looking at anything else, and now we've got at least one killer playing innocent. Maybe more.

[subsisted]

[ ... don't look so conflicted, don't say that. she almost likes you now? ]

I promise you, Alvin. I'd never hurt a child. You can take that to the bank.

[selfdenying]

You mean Leo? The one with the glasses? He was the one who brought up how he saw Diva hit Charles.

[They haven't pressed him yet, that's for sure.]

[betraitor]

Yeah, nobody even bat an eye at that before now, did they?

[selfsufficiency]

To be completely fair, he only brought it up after I asked if anyone had any guesses, so it's not like it came completely out of the blue. He wasn't even the first person to accuse someone. He was just the first person to accuse anyone who had anything to back his guess up.

[betraitor]

Not completely out of the blue, I'd guess that it makes more sense to wait for an opportunity to say something like that to divert suspicion than to just say it completely unprompted.

[selfsufficiency]

That's true, but we're only looking at it like it's suspicious now because we know she wasn't the killer. If you'd seen Diva hitting Charles, can you really say you wouldn't have brought it up? Because seeing someone hurting someone who showed up dead later is suspicious.

I mean, I would have brought it up myself if I saw it. I think anyone here would have.

[karmas]

I disagree with Leo Baskerville for exactly that reason. Yes, he brought up the candlestick. But the staff didn't need Diva to be accused. They needed to wait for anyone to be accused who wasn't one of their number. Leo Baskerville was merely the first to make any sort of accusation.

I do think it interesting, the sudden shift towards Leo Baskerville. Even from someone who was initially hesitant to name names. Don't you?

[selfsufficiency]

Interesting, but... maybe not suspicious. It's hard to say.

We're running low on time, so I think people are getting desperate again. ♡

[subsisted]

I explained my actions. I would have never pointed a finger at Diva without reason to, and if there was a trail to investigate, I wanted to do so. I want the truth. I specifically said I do not want to point a finger at Leo, and I do not believe him to the perpetrator, only someone who spoke up out of a desire to help.

[adlucem]

Miss Prosecutor already spoke to me. [Is he gonna have to do this all over again...] I'll answer any questions you have, but it's just going to be what I already told her.

[betraitor]

I'm not gonna make you repeat yourself, I'm not into interrogations. I'm just putting all the options on the table, because no matter who or what accusations get thrown around, unless we've got proof, we can't rule anything out.

[if anyone could be staff, anyone could be lying—alvin might know this better than most people just from being a mercenary for so many years and having done the lying, even when it threw people he loved under the bus.]

[adlucem]

In that case, I agree with you. [It's perfectly logical, and Leo isn't naive. He gets where they're coming from.] Having this many likely suspects isn't any better than having none, though. We can't abstain, but we can't prove anything... [He sighs, leaning his head back.] What are we going to do?

[betraitor]

At this point? Fly by the seat of our pants, because we're not getting anywhere.

[which is the exact opposite of promising.]

[adlucem]

That's not very comforting.

[Not that Alvin was trying to be... but at least he's being honest.]

I wish we could try to find an alternative, but after what happened last time... it would probably be best to make our best guess. [Considering he's on the suspect list, this probably isn't the best suggestion to make, but. It is true.] But even saying that, I don't feel comfortable voting for someone with no evidence at all. No matter what Miss Prosecutor says.