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

[chiseler]

The foot was found in the fountain the day after the trial, right? I got sick before Alice touched it.

[selfdenying]

The foot was missing for a day, however. We don't know where it was during that time.

[chiseler]

Are you trying to imply I would actually take the time to hide a severed foot and then dump it in the water? [He's not really mad. He's frustrated. He's frustrated he keeps having to defend himself when he still kind of feels like garbage, kids are dying, they're no closer to solving anything and Franziska sure did make him feel stupid? He hates that. He hates not having answers and so he just sort of snarls instead.]

A cold isn't exactly something that would normally bother someone like me. Being here might've taken down some of my immune system but not all of it, could be why the effect was slow. I don't know. Could be the foot for Alice, could be I was in the water for a while and also in wet clothes for a while. If you're going to use that as basis for "I might be staff and might have decided to kill a child because I felt like it" then go ahead.

[selfdenying]

Calm down, Luke. I am not accusing you of anything. I never said that you picked up the foot or was responsible in severing it. I'm merely trying to reason through it and find out how you got sick if it wasn't for touching the foot like Alice did.

[It is a rather sudden defensive response to something that wasn't even an accusation, and Alfendi takes a mental note of that.]

It could be a latent thing. And we'd need to do experiments to fully rule out the water. It's just conjecture at this point.

[liven]

Everything we have is conjecture...snapping at people certainly doesn't help explain anything away.

[chiseler]

[Easy for you to say, buddy, you don't have Prosecutor Von Crazypants listing you as a suspect because you happened to jump in to help an interrogation. Regardless he does seem to settle down even if he looks extremely unhappy.]

...truthfully? My only guess is the water and how much of it was exposed to me. I mean you were there, too. You saw me hit it pretty hard, I might've swallowed some of it or something. [Just as a reminder.] Like I said, back where I'm from I've built up immunity to some things. Being here...nothing works the way it should, so it doesn't surprise me. I had a broken nose to worry about. A cold was sort of on the backburner even when I started feeling worse. You can ask Adam, he had to pretty much drag me up the stairs back to my room after the trial was over and he set my nose.