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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[karmas]

No. [And yes, she's still calm, almost condescending in her calmness. She wags a finger at Liz with a smile.] You note I did not include Rayfa Padma Khurain's roommates as likely exempt. As we cannot know how many of them there are, we cannot assume there is even more than one room uninfected. But if any room was uninfected, it was the room belonging to Charles Fei-Ong.

[tearable]

[ you win this one! ]

I hope your assumption is correct. [ Seriously, because knowing our luck like five of them could be in Charles' room. ] If we go by that logic, then we still have a brunt of people to consider. I wish we knew what kind of staff this was. Slaughterers and secretaries are distinctively different.

[karmas]

We are better at treating the term as a euphemism for a gang of cold blooded murderers of inscrutable motives. Theorizing about motives when we know so little is likely to lead us in the wrong direction.

All we know is that we can kill the staff at trial, though logic or through luck. So the only motive we can be assured of is that they will work to minimize our chances at both logic and luck. Anything that could lead us to reason out their identity or happen upon it is something they would not do - unless, that is, it was a mistake they made in the process of trying to stop us applying reason or luck in a different direction.

[tearable]

I agree on that. They're not some... some professionals in this line of work. Brutally murdering... blending like chameleons among us? Tsk.

[ That mention of killing the staff does make her smirk a little. ]

That's the thing, miss - they're removing any investigative elements. At least, they were before Veronica ruined that wall. [ :( As she tenderly touches her cut. ] They don't want any distinguishing factors to consider or for us to narrow the list down.

Let's talk later about some theories... when we're not pressed for time.