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

[selfsufficiency]

The way I see it, we have a couple of options for deciding how we might vote.

Number one! We go with the theory that the victims so far have been kids because the killer isn't big or strong enough to take down anyone bigger, and we make a list of anyone small and frail enough to fit that bill and vote from that.

Number two! We assume that since the killer - or killers - have been taking the ankle monitors because they want to try to do something with them, they're working with at least one person with enough technical knowledge to be able to figure them out, and we vote from the list of people who do have that knowledge because they might be part of that group even if they haven't killed anyone yet.

Number three! We ask Franzy who she's narrowed her list down to, since she brought up the theory that someone who supported voting for Diva early on might have been a staff member trying to throw us off.

Or number four, we all just sort of do whatever, and probably someone innocent ends up dead as a result.

I think we should go with whatever option is most likely to have us vote for a real staff member. I want to see whoever's doing this to us suffer tonight.

[jackhole]

[ look who's been slapped awake. ]

I don't like number two because it's biased because you're all old and no one likes me.

[selfsufficiency]

...do you have any other argument against it other than "no one likes you"?

[jackhole]

People like Angel, Jack, and Veronica more who are the other ones who would be suspected for being tech savvy.

[unnames]

Honestly...those all sound pretty reasonable, actually.

Except for number four.

I'm impressed. But in that case, we have to decide together, or we'll just end up with a mish-mash of useless votes.

[selfsufficiency]

Yeah. I'm not sure which one I believe, but I just want to find an actual staff member this time so we can make them pay.

[onepunchgirl]

I think number one is flawed. It seems implied that we have multiple staff members. Unless all of the staff members are young and frail, it feels too hasty to make a judgment off only two bodies.

Number two might be a better route, though I kinda hate to admit it since I'd probably be on a shortlist of tinkerers. It'd be a more secure route if we knew why they prioritize the monitors, but that's something we can only speculate on.

Looking at the people who pushed Diva's execution also sounds good to me, perhaps as a starting point if nothing else.

[selfsufficiency]

Oh, sorry - I just meant, whoever killed this time or last time! We can focus on trying to find this killer based on what the choice of victim might mean, or we can try and focus on other ways of picking a staff member.

[Alice shrugs. There's not really any way for them to know until they get the results of the vote, is there...]

So either two or three, then? We can start with whichever option gets the most support and work from there.

[heroizes]

Yeah, another tinkerer here, and-- And I mean, not saying that isn't a super viable theory but also asking we, uh, shelve that on until we know more, maybe? Since, hell, we don't even know for sure that's what they're doing.

[injectors]

I admit to being biased here, but if we're considering option two — we should also consider that some may not be disclosing their full list of skills. Rhys, Jack and I may not be the only ones with that type of knowledge here.

[She'd rather not die purposely, but that said...]

I won't stop anyone if they wish to go with that theory, however. It is a plausible lead, after all... And we have nothing but our word to defend ourselves.

[tearable]

Is that probable? [ Oops, this is a good question. ] We ourselves didn't fill out our skillset... I definitely wouldn't have mentioned something so oddly placed.

[liven]

Number one would assume that there is only one staff member, correct? I feel the odds of that not being true are lesser...and I'm not saying that because of my size. As a few of the men here can tell you, I am perfectly capable of disabling people bigger than me.

[ LMAO...shijima why ]

I'd like to hear whom that woman has narrowed her list down to regardless, for number three, and then we can consider the other options...?

[selfsufficiency]

Number one would mean we just focus on trying to find this killer or last time's killer based on what the choice of victim tells us, as opposed to following other leads. We only have so much time, so...

[Alice giggles.]

I definitely believe you could take down someone bigger than you! You put up a great fight for the bed when we first started sharing a room. ♡

[betraitor]

At least throwing some ideas out there might give us a push in the right direction.

[instead of just kind of skirting all the options.]

One or two sounds best to me. Not that the lovely Franziska doesn't have good points, I'm sure—but taking one person's word for it didn't really help us a couple of days ago. We could be sinking ourselves just as bad as option four.

[he wouldn't wish that on anyone either, honestly. he fucked it up last time around.]

[karmas]

Prosecutor von Karma.

Have I asked anyone to take my word for it? Have I not laid out my points in a logical fashion? But options one and two are acceptable to me.

[betraitor]

Prosecutor von Karma.

[except it's accompanied by a wink, so clearly he is taking her name request very seriously.]

Anyway, never said you did. I was just pointing out why I'm not too crazy about it, good reasons or not. Just trying to work out the best options for us, that's all, that's all.

[selfsufficiency]

So... hmmm, what should we do? Ask all the people who would be implicated under those options to defend themselves?

We could see if they make any obvious slip-ups... and hearing them talk could help us decide how to vote.

[betraitor]

If we do that, all we can do is see if someone slips up or really contradicts themselves or someone else. Not sure it'll get us anywhere, but it may be the best choice we've got if we're gonna get anything resembling a vote in time.

[antietam]

I agree. Just because someone is confident doesn't make what they say more true. Assuming she isn't staff, she knows the same as any of us.

[karmas]

Prosecutor von Karma.

[But she looks pleased all the same.]

I won't narrow down my list to one person. After all, that is the basis on which I'm suggesting staff influence the vote. But each of your methods are perfectly logical.

As for who I've narrowed my suspicions down to, based on Diva, that would be Elizabeth, Lara Croft, Luke Castellan.

[antietam]

I think it'd be helpful if you explained your reasoning for each of the individuals so we can actually understand.

What happened to Bigby? Why Lara and Luke specifically? I still don't see anything pointing to them.

[liven]

Do you mind explaining what narrowed it down to those three? Beyond Diva? Or was it simply that?

[ just so she's up to date on Everything even though she is still. letting alice decide shit. ]

[selfsufficiency]

Franzy. ♡

[ :) ]

But, okay. If we go with your suspects, we'd need the three of them to tell us why they couldn't be the ones who did it, so that we can decide if they're telling the truth or not and who we want to vote for.

[tearable]

I believe I've taken blame for the inncident with Diva once already. Do I expect for it to clear my name? No, but those two shouldn't be bundled with the suspicion caused by the act.

Do you have anything you'd like to ask me, ma'am?

[subsisted]

[ thank fuck she got off bigby's case, but anyway. ] Luke's uninvolved. He tried to help with Diva's interrogation. Furthermore, he was only following a suggestion by someone else.

I cannot speak for Elizabeth, but I believe neither of us would have considered Diva had it not been for the fact she attacked the victim at all. You are forgetting that neither of us were the ones to bring up Diva's involvement with Charles - as far as I know, neither of us were even aware they had spoken.

What else do you want to know, Franziska?