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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[selfsufficiency]

It was cleaner than the kind of cut a sword would make, too.

[Which... possibly clears Kei...??]

If whoever is taking them is trying to use them for something, I think that does. There's no point gathering them if they don't know enough about that kind of thing to make use of them.

[heroizes]

Wait, are we sure they're using them for something?

[ Jack shrugs ]

Like- Like, bear with me for a sec here, because, yeah, we don't know crap about them or how they work. And, uh, I'm just saying, if this were something the company I worked for ran? They would want those ankle monitors back... Just throwin' that out there as a possibility, because yeah, if they're bein' used for something, that could be helpful, buuuuut I don't know if we can assume that.

[alittlemaster]

Are you playing devil's advocate because you're guilty, or because you genuinely believe whoever took the foot didn't do it for the monitors?

[selfsufficiency]

[Well, Alice was going to respond to Jack herself, but she's interested in what he has to say to Ciel so she's going to keep quiet for now...]

[heroizes]

Wh- [ Jack narrows his eyes at Ciel, and he holds up a finger ]

Okay, first of all, y'know what? You're such a little turd. There. I said it. I've been wanting to say it since we first talked, Jesus.

[ He feels better now... He holds up another finger as he continues. ]

Second, I'm throwing it out as a possibility because, yeah, surprise, that kinda shit would super incriminate me, great job reading my profile. So. Y'know. Don't want to end up like last week's goddamn mistake.

[alittlemaster]

[Despite a rather bland, flat look, Ciel seems unbothered by the accusation of being a little turd. (He's heard worse.)]

Would it be a mistake if you really were one of the staff?

[heroizes]

[ Look you can't call a thirteen year old a [CENSORED], Jack has standards ]

...Well, technically, technically, no, but. I'm not?

[alittlemaster]

It's hard to go on your word without evidence. Your credentials make you a likely culprit, and those are things we have to consider.

[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.

[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. ♡

[alittlemaster]

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.

[selfsufficiency]

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.

[alittlemaster]

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.

[selfsufficiency]

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. ♡

[alittlemaster]

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

[selfsufficiency]

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.

[liven]

Will you vote to rename the boy Alice to Jefferey?