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're probably all going to die at this rate, yeah.

[ rhys is the world's best/worst pessimist. ]

[What the fuck rhys--]

What?! No! We're not going to all die!

[ dragging his hands over his face ]

Nope. We're totally going to die. First, they're picking off the kids, which is like, what the fuck? And -- and now it'll be us next. Me and you, Jeff. We're totally going to die. Why? Why us? We're so -- so young and so pretty and we're going to die so hard, bro. They're picking off the weak and we have no muscle definition like, at all!

[ kindred spirits, jeff and him. ]

That-- I--

I'm too pretty to die!

[Thanks, Alice?, for that input.]

[literally everyone here needs a time out]

Neither of you are going to die, but please calm down. Working yourselves up over this will only make it more difficult for you to focus.

It's his problem, make him stop--! [POINTS AGGRESSIVELY AT RHYS]

[STOP WITH THE AGGRESSIVE POINTING.]

I'll see what can be done, but it would likely be easier to calm him if others aren't feeding his panic.

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[ he's going to grab the front of alice?'s shirt now and shake him a little ]

No, you are not, Jeff. You are the exact amount of pretty to die.

[AAAAAA]

Shit--Is...is that really how it works?

[ he'll drop it to a very bro-y arm around the shoulder ]

I was like you once. Young. Pretty. World at my feet. [ and then back to shaking him. ] And then I ended up here where we're all going to die. It can happen to anyone, Jeff!

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...I mean, you are really pretty. ♡

[#helping]

[Hesitantly--]

Suddenly, it doesn't feel like a compliment anymore...

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[rhys what the heck]

I understand if you're feeling hopeless about the situation, but that's no reason to drag down everything with you.

[ look, he's ready for everything to go absolutely terribly because that's just how his life goes. ]

I just -- I don't want to be caught off guard! When it happens! As in, when I die! Because I'm totally going to die.

You are not going to die. Please calm down...this type of attitude is exactly what the staff wants.

[rhys PLEASE]

If you panic, you won't think straight, and things will be worse...please, get ahold of yourself.

We're -- we're still going to die.

[ BUT. ]

But, okay, whatever. I'll just, I'll fucking shut up or whatever.

Please don't say that.

[stop doing you, rhys.]

[ he's doing him ]

What else am I supposed to say? We have no evidence and no direction and no -- no nothing. I'm preparing for the worst.

[cotdammit, rhys.]

Drink water, breathe and calm down, Rhys. This situation isn't... ideal by any means, but we will only make it worse by losing our cool.

[ he opens his mouth to argue but

well

she has a point. so instead he's just going to chug a bunch of water and look off in the distance with his white boy angst ]

[Thanks, pal.

She'll pass him some snacks to go with his white boy angst.]

[ lara's just. going stomp hard as possible as she can next to rhys' foot here and glare. jeffery is a teenager leave him alone???? ]

[ OW... there is definitely a strangled yell here and he looks at lara in betrayal

but what about HIS needs???? he is a poor fragile cyborg who can't deal with these things ]

We don't need to cause panic. When we stop thinking, then we all lose, Rhys.

[ that look of betrayal will not get you anywhere, dude, lara croft is a Seasoned Explorer ]

We have a chance, we can't give it up as soon as it's presented to us.

[ scrubbing his hands over his face here. ughhh... stop being, like, right. ]

Yeah, but -- but we're totally going to fail. That's just how these things work.

[ but that's all he'll say at least, going back to sulking in his seat ]