trial #3

[judgejudy]

DAY 6 (afternoon) 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

Comments

[newlugers]

... Gotta agree on that one. Anyway, you guys really think a middle schooler could take on Franziska? She was crazy.

[ he hates voting at all, he hates that he's been dragged into yet another psychopath's game, but what else can he do... ]

[puffing]

[ no, stop. his tough guy facade is crumbling before his very eyes...!! ]

It's pretty fucking embarrassing to be called out on something like that, yeah. Not like you have to worry about it.

[ he's usually a wolf in a human fursuit? does that count? who the hell knows ]

[selfdenying]

Ha, you're going to vote for me? I like your guts, loverboy.

[He grins.]

Come on, do something useful and at least try to get a staff member instead of throwing away your vote, moron.

[toyotamane]

Save that for when we're out of here.

[celebratory punishment??]

Keep a tally in the meantime, or somethin'. Otherwise I'm aimin' to be contrary.

[interrupting mullet--]

[tearable]

Never had compliments to give.

[ ??? Not that she can remember. ]

Call it a little victory until you walk out of here alive.

[grimdeity]

Out of our current options, I suppose... Alvin. Unless some new knowledge or suspect presents itself.

[betraitor]

I'm not really into playing nice when I'm being accused of crimes I didn't commit for pretty flimsy reasons. By that logic, anyone who brings up a possibility could be guilty.

It wasn't about convictions in the first week. Judy mde the terms of the deal, I passed that on to everyone else. It was never my idea to begin with aside fromantic trying to find out how many staffers were in our numbers.

[antietam]

And who are you voting for?

[tearable]

But her whip was left in the bedroom, was it not? I spoke with Veronica and we believe that there's a chance she was unconscious when she was killed. We didn't find any sign of struggles - the attack wounds were definitely not the usual, brutal ones. Inexperienced, I'd say.

[selfsufficiency]

I wouldn't discount him just because he's young. Plenty of people as young as him have killed where I've come from, and Cici seems like a very resourceful person.

...but I guess if it's not normal for people that young to kill where you guys are from, I can see why you wouldn't want to believe it.

[mansplains]

...And so am I.

[Awww]

[selfdenying]

I'm between you and Ciel and Alvin. I may go with one of the latter two, aren't you lucky? You might go free, Adam. Live another day!

[He smiles wide.]

But Adam... if I end up dead in a couple of days, well, that won't look good on you. Just saying.

[toyotamane]

She was hardly crazy, you're just a coward.

[antietam]

[ After listening to some votes coming in, he sighs. ]

... You shouldn't vote for Ciel.

[selfdenying]

[His nose has already stopped bleeding HE DOESN'T WANT IT TO CONTINUE TO BLEED THANK YOU]

I'll pass.

[selfsufficiency]

Why not? Are you going to say something like "he's too young to be a killer"?

[newlugers]

I dunno. You guys said she looked like she got hit in a few places, right? Why wouldn't they just kill her right away if she was unconscious?

[mansplains]

[he's onto you, Bigby. Yiff in hell]

Well, we all have our hobbies.....

[antietam]

He's just a kid. I don't know if he's staff or not, but I'm not going to watch a kid die again based on nothing. And really? Y'all want to vote for Alvin too because of what Franziska said? Look where that got you.

Because I killed her so I know they didn't.

[tearable]

Not sure. Wasn't there.

[ She does wonder then: ]

These bastards aren't doing this for kills to get their jollies off. We're all contained like lab rats... they're watching, always. Might be some experiment for all we know.

[grimdeity]

That's what I thought-- that she was killed when asleep or unconscious, rather than awake and fighting. Not that that says much about who did it, since anyone can kill someone who's caught unaware just about.

[newlugers]

You gotta be kidding. Wherever you come from is messed up, then.

[selfdenying]

Someone was angry, I suppose. They wanted to take out their aggression on her. Which could either be personal - [glances over at Adam] - or they were angry over the loss of one of their own. Simple explanation, really.

[selfsufficiency]

I don't want to vote for Alvin. I don't think he's as suspicious as someone wants us to believe.

Really? Do you really mean that, or are you just trying to save a kid?

[newlugers]

[ WOW ]

Oh, shut up, gramps! What kind of normal person threatens strangers with a whip? They don't!