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

[subsisted]

I don't exactly know what it is you'd like us to form opinions about considering the only thing we have to go off of is the missing ankle monitor.

[ she's just a little bit cranky, bigby. give her a moment to purse her lips and look peeved. ]

My opinion is that perhaps we need to consider alternatives to the ankle monitor, or try to get into them ourselves. If the theory that they're taking the monitors is correct, then there's something valuable in them. If we found out what that is, perhaps we can narrow it down and stop this before we lose anymore innocent people.

[injectors]

Regardless of how we vote, there will be one more death by the end of this day. Forgive me for being morbid — but we could use that to our advantage and look further into the ankle monitors.

[Since it's not like they can look into it now, so...]

[subsisted]

[ look this is terrible, but lara's all about making use of what they've got. ]

That would be a smart thing to do... I think we should refrain from tampering with our own until we know what we're doing with them. If they're what generates the shocks, there's no telling what kind of power is in them.

[injectors]

Those are my thoughts, as well. There's also the possibility of there being some kind of failsafe if they're tampered with, so removing one from a corpse would be our safest bet.

[liven]

Unfortunately we keep being beaten to the punch there.

[injectors]

Unfortunately so. But if we secure the next one, we may be able to catch on to whatever the staff is plotting.

[Or at least, she hopes so.]

[toyotamane]

[!!

Oh, there's an idea.]

Right, they leave the body for us to deal with, don't they? Smart girl. It's morbid, sure, but it'll work. Maybe then we can figure out how to get these damn things off.

[injectors]

Exactly. I've already asked Alice to secure a monitor if she's selected as executioner, but if she's not, then it's only a matter of cutting off the foot before we dispose of the body.

[toyotamane]

Right, right. That said, are you volunteering to be the one who investigates how these things work?

[Which is good, because he trusts her more than most people. Too soft to do anything but what she says.]

...Whatever happened to the last body, anyway? Did no one keep that monitor?

[DID THEY THROW IT OUT??? What a waste.]

[injectors]

I am. Assuming I'm not executed for my particular skill set, that is.

[Shrugging lightly, like her life is a joke. But she does take a moment to think about that.]

... I'm sorry, I don't know. I believe the body was frozen using liquid nitrogen, so perhaps the monitor was broken in the process.

[toyotamane]

Damn it.

[Curse everyone for not thinking of the monitor! To be fair, they were all pretty shaken, but that's no excuse either. Maybe he'll look into it...

He eyes her then, chewing on his cigar.]

Not gonna happen. Besides, what's the sense in killing someone for a skill we need on our own side, eh?

[Don't take away the only sensible roommate, people...]

[injectors]

Thank you, Dickson.

[For implying they could use her, anyway. She likes being helpful. She is... not feeling very helpful right now.]

I'll see what I can do once we're done with this trial.

[toyotamane]

[And people want to get rid of someone who's happy and willing to be put to work? For shame.

Dickson nods, squaring his shoulders.]

Don't sweat it, kiddo. Just worry about keeping your head on for now.

[That's not funny...even if it is accurate...]