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trial #3
 Complex Population: 27 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 10/22. voting |
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This time, instead of addressing everyone as a whole first, she makes a beeline for the bench and addresses Judy with no small amount of venom in her voice.]
Medicine. Do you have any kind of medicine we can use? A bunch of us aren't feeling well and it's going to be really hard to find justice for the victim or whatever this sham of a trial is supposed to accomplish if we're all trying not to puke.
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If someone with a role was killed, how will we know? Please tell me you'll do some sort of courtesy call across the intercom...
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Was that stupid young man who died in Apartment 7 a staff member?
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You keep records of things, right? Can you tell us who voted to abstain last time?
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Yesterday, I examined both Kei and Franziska, and I’ve also looked at Bigby’s injuries — and I’ve noticed something interesting regarding the time of the two deaths.
[ here he goes! he’s just going to list the observations that he made this morning, because it’s the first time that they’ve dealt with Multiple dead people on one day. ]
Franziska was murdered some time between 2AM and 8AM.
[ if he’s not wrong, there was a small crew of people handling franziska’s case, so he’ll leave discussing the specifics of her injuries up to them. what’s important to him here is stating his estimate of the time of her death. so, moving onwards. ]
On the other hand, Kei was killed at a time between 12AM and 2AM. His throat appeared to have been torn out — but it didn’t seem to be the work of an item.
[ which means that it was probably clawed out somehow by someone’s fingers or teeth. or a fierce pair of feet, for all of the feet fetishists out there, i guess. ]
Bigby’s injuries also come from that time, of between 12AM and 2AM. One of his two wounds looks as if it could have come from a sword — which is Kei’s luggage, as stated on his profile. Therefore, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that they had some kind of encounter, and that their injuries were caused by each other, given where Kei was found this morning — in room 7.
[ a pause, before he continues. ]
What I’m interested in, however, is the time that these deaths occurred. Why were they so far apart? Does this mean that the staff members are restricted to certain time ranges that they can kill within? Or do they just need a break between murders?
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[Alice scowls at Dazai.]
Kei broke into our room and attacked him. Don't phrase it so suspiciously!
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[ "that guy" is kei, in this case. ]
The time has always been odd, though, hasn't it? One person a night, only at night. Perhaps because that guy tried first, they counted it as a failure and got to try again?
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[However...]
If Kei was part of the staff, it's possible von Karma was murdered because the attempt to kill Wolf failed.
[Hey, Bigby, over here. Dojima turns his head towards Bigby. Would you be as kind as to provide your witness testimony?]
Wolf, do you remember anything? How you got woken up at a time everyone but staff was knocked out, for example? I'm not saying you're staff, but it's certainly a deviation from normal and could give an idea what the victims do or see before they get murdered.
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Bigby said that someone sent that man into the room. Perhaps there two isolated incidents and one of those six Judy mentioned isn't... working for the staff, but not necessarily working for us either? We need to start asking questions about why someone would send Kei off to his own, highly armed and ready to kill. That is, unless he was staff himself.
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he's more pale than usual, a side effect of losing who knows how much of his own blood. at least his face and skin was scrubbed as best as it could, even if there's some hints of red lost in the stubble around his chin. Bigby wasn't particularly talkative, which would typically be reasonable when someone thinks about what happened to him. but they're in a trial not more than a few hours later, and he has the misfortune of having to clarify what happened. ]
I killed Kei. [ well ok. he's just getting it out there now rather than later. ] It was in self-defense. He approached me after curfew, sometime after I fell asleep. Stabbed me with a sword, which I'm assuming is the one his profile said he carries. I never talked to him before. He had a second weapon. It was along the lines of what staff has used to kill people before. Some kind of pole with goddamn barbs at the end.
The stab was probably meant for my heart, but he missed and it woke me up. We scuffled, and he got another good hit on me. One arm couldn't be used for jack shit thanks to him, and the other was being used to keep him from not swinging that pole thing anymore than he had. So... I tore his throat out. With my teeth. [ WELL OK. ] He mentioned a second person being involved. Said he was doing it as a favor. Couldn't get much more out of him because of what happened, obviously.
[ now just let him shut up and catch his breath. everything hurts. ]
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[ stop criticizing the apparent assassin??? ]
...but this is the story as he told it to all of us before he had time to even think about anything, and I believe all the evidence lines up. So I'll say I concur with this series of events, because I do.
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Judy was kind enough to reveal a crucial part of information that they should know about. Franziska was part of some... medical team. It makes Elizabeth's heart sink a bit because it was... well, now they're on their own? That's... fun. ]
We have confirmation that Franziska was one of the six mixed among us. A medical role, but I do not know what that entails but -
[ Pinches nose. ]
We'll have to be sure. We need to be one-hundred percent sure about our choices from now on.
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[ shijima is a bitch, news at eleven ]
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[ so that settles that???? she supposes???? ]
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[There look, a "good work Shijima" for Shijima.]
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[She closes her eyes and pauses. Even if she didn't react to it much, Lara's death was still a reminder of the consequences this twisted game carries. Veronica opens her eyes again, and continues.]
Now what did Franziska do that worked? For starters, she wasn't wishy-washy. Here's the reality here: none of us are innocent. When we vote to kill someone, anyone, we can't claim to be. The staff members don't care who they target, because they want to serve their own self-interests. They came after her because they saw her as a threat. Most of us were too afraid to even say who we were voting for yesterday in public. That's pure cowardice, and it's probably why our votes got so split.
So today? Let's say who we're going to vote for before the tally comes. Franziska and I were the only people who even did that much, and if you want a reason to trust me then you can count the fact that I stated my vote for Luke before the results came in. In fact - I would wager no staff members voted for him, not when the numbers were so tied and all our votes are anonymous. Why would they vote to kill him, compared to voting for Lara or someone else? So why not everyone who voted for Luke claim their name to it now.
"But Veronica" you might say, "what if there are liars?" My answer: Duh. But we also know 8 people voted for him. Counting myself, 7 remain. So if more than 7 people say so, then we'll know someone is being a liar and get a pool of suspects. In fact, I'd love for a staff member to actually have some balls and not stay in the dark, trying to twist people against one another but never taking responsibility when something goes awry.
[She takes a pause, and you think she's done but. No...]
Additionally, I did speak with Franziska after I assisted Angel with amputating Lara's foot. We talked about the trial and other people who we felt were acting suspicious. She did give me a name of a person, and I think it's worth sharing her thoughts.
...But, I think I'll save my tongue on that. For now. [She smiles.] I rather see how that person acts first during this trial. For fairness sake. Franziska was smart, but she's not a God. I'm not carrying out her last rites, only her will. Even she agreed polling people seemed like the best option when I talked to her.
And at the end of the day, that's what this game is really about. Communication. We need to be clear in our thoughts and not shuffle our feet around. Like I said - no one is an innocent. Let's not act as though we have no responsibility for the death of whoever we vote for.
[OOC: Ok so this is like the worst timing ever, but I won't actually be around most of the day because of work + rl getting in the way. I did want to get this out though since Veronica wouldn't just stay silent. If anyone has need of me, please private plurk me at @
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[Alfendi has his notebook open for reference - he taps at a page filled with nothing but coded words. He wasn't here for the vote...at least, not him, but his other self.]
Apparently, I suspected him after his lackluster excuses for his sickness and his sudden relationship with Adam Parrish. I even told others about it afterward.
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[Alfendi Layton, taking the floor in a very, VERY rude fashion. He kind of looks like he's going to keel over, but at least his anger is keeping him going? No one knows for how long that will be, though...]
Don't forget, there's more than twenty of us here. We're here to catch staff members that we're sure are staff members, not anyone who has a damn death wish! The fact that Fransizka was a medical staff member and was killed after aggressively going after people is interesting. Either our staff had to know what she was, or she got far too close to the truth in the last trial.
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Does anyone know if Miss von Karma gave any hints as to her role in the past few days? I saw none, but I didn't speak much with her. She had such a limited vocabulary. [ fool. foolhardy. foolish. tomfoolery. ] But I do think her work last trial did make her a target-- she was the one to suggest Luke, was she not? Along with Elizabeth and Lara, the latter of which was innocent.
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suspect talk
[ She's kind of hovering next to Bigby, keeping an eye on his wounds and trying to prevent him for ordering a whiskey. ]
And also to discuss why they're suspicious. We're in an arena lacking logic but that doesn't mean we have to play by that rules. Veronica wants communication - so let's try it.
Let's talk suspicions without fear of hurting someone's feelings.
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[ for part one. ]
I've already said who else I find suspicious, otherwise.
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injuries
After speaking to Miss Elizabeth, we should check for recent injuries in relation to Franziska's death.
Other women should check Miss Elizabeth [BECAUSE HE SURE ISN'T SCANDALOUS] since she has said both her and Bigby had a dislike for Franziska. Bigby already has injuries from last night. The other person to check is Adam due to his relations to Luke.
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Re: injuries
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Okay, everyone! You all heard Judy, right? She'll tell us the names of people who voted, but she'll only reveal who voted for a single choice.
So... since someone isn't telling the truth about abstaining, do we want to ask her about that?
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[Dojima plays with his lighter, this is going to be fun]
If we ask for who voted Abstain, we'll get three names and know who is a liar. That's pretty much a safe bet. There's another option, too.
But there's something else we can do: ask who voted for Lara. Not only we'd get eight names to deal with, and a reference for future trials if more people die. It's not guaranteed we'd get one of the four who supposedly abstained in that list, but if it's a staff member it's possible their name would appear there too. It's a risk I'd be personally be willing to take.
Besides, in the future we could have the option to ask who voted abstain in the second trial, wouldn't we? Someone should check with Judy.
[Which he will, in a moment]
We should consider what we'll do in future trials too.
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RESTARTS THIS TRAIN
So, again. Pretty obvious we're not going to find out who sent Kei on me tonight. There's no chance in hell they're going to admit to anything, suspicions on me or not. So who do we pin Franziska's on?
Elizabeth brought up that the only people that had problems with her were herself, me and Adam. Then there's the fact that the staff may have caught on to the fact that she could have been more than a lawyer being cocky after Judy's admittance of other roles coming into play.
I don't think Ms. Elizabeth would have gone and killed someone after what she had to do in the cage before. Fucking argue me if you think otherwise. And me... well. [ looks at the plethora of wounds he has. ] Adam's shown he doesn't really give a shit what direction this goes either way. He's been checked and nothing substantial was there physically.
What else do we have to go on? Time's a-tickin'.
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[ so ]
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I guess nobody's gonna buy that I'm the innocent party without clearing the air here, right? Communication and all that.
I'll spill what you guys wanna know about me if it's gonna help at all.
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[ let him know if he's deda ]
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[Leo will be as well by virtue of Alice hauling him in there and using his hand to cast his vote so he doesn't get in trouble for not voting.]
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5 minute warning at this point smh
There are only minutes left before 7:00 PM. If you have yet to cast your vote, do it now.