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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[heroizes]

[ Jack snorts out a laugh that sounds less than impressed, and this is where I apologize, since Jack has a condition where he just says shit all the time without thinking about it. ]

Yeah, I can hear the air quotes around that, princess, and that shout-out's goin' out to you too. Was roughing up that chick really necessary? I mean- I mean, you're proving my point here, just using violence against people without reason, it's just not going to work.

[ jack you're going to get punched in the face again ]

So steps in between include actually using out brains. Yeah, right now, we don't have much info to work with, but that can be changed. I'm going to go off the off chance here that we're not a group of jackoff idiots, and maybe if we actually tried setting stuff up, we wouldn't have to jump to "you know, torture seems like a reasonable course of action here."

[puffing]

[ wow so apparently Jack did not learn from calling him kiddo. he has since evolved into... princess?

Bigby's going to stand up for this. and proceeds to get reaaaaal close. ]

She kicked me. ―In the nuts. Maybe your first instinct is to buckle down and cry, but mine is to get angry. And I already had a task in mind, so I channeled it into doing something that seemed productive at the time.

[ and also, Elizabeth told him to do it???? ]

No one is going to get fucking tortured. There's a difference between torture and questioning aggressively. And if we don't start getting some more traction before we're forced to vote, that very well may need to happen.

Unless you have something to "set up" ― [ have some more air quotes, PRINCESS ] ― right now, that doesn't help us get through this.

[heroizes]

[ And honestly, between the two characters I have (had?) here, Diva definitely is able to stand up to Bigby more unflinchingly. Jack does straighten as Bigby stands closer and crosses his arms, but he's not weirdly unaffected like Diva. No, actually, he's mentally going, why did you say that you fucking idiotttttt, but he can't back down now. He's a stupid machismo asshole ]

No- No, I friggin' don't, not yet, but I will. The place has been open, what, 24 hours? And with that stupid curfew, it's not like I can pull all-nighters.

[ He frowns deeply, but then shakes his head ]

Questioning aggressively, sure, not torture, but it didn't work. That's my point. You got her to confess that she's an asshole, sure, but whatever.