62 | trial #3

trial #3

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.

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"Some kind of encounter"?

[Alice scowls at Dazai.]

Kei broke into our room and attacked him. Don't phrase it so suspiciously!

Really? That's news to me.

[ he's actually looking pretty shocked, because look, no one told him this?? ]

I tried asking Bigby earlier when I met with him in the bar, but he wouldn't give me the entire story.

[She narrows her eyes at him. If Bigby would't give him the entire story, does that mean Bigby doesn't trust him...?

Sorry Dazai, your stock's gone way down in Alice's book.]

Seeing as he'd just woken up after fighting for his life, it's not surprising he wasn't in the mood to talk to you.

[ it's not a matter of bigby not trusting him, probably. it's a matter of not ever actually having talked too much to him in the first place. after all, would you trust someone that you've only talked to yesterday? ]

Given that the first time I've ever spoken to him was yesterday, when we met to chop Leo's foot off, I'm not surprised.

He said that he was saving it to defend himself at the trial. After that, I didn't press him.

[Alice is a paranoid mess right now and I'm sorry.]

No, you didn't press him. Instead you decided to phrase what happened to him in the most suspicious way possible!

[she's buttmad about this i'm sorry again.]

Then, do you want me to explicitly state that "Bigby tore out Kei's throat"? I don't even know if that's true. Also, do you know how that would make him sound? Think about it, Alice.

[ alice.... do you need a hug after all of this is over ]

Making Bigby sound like a murderer isn't what you want to be doing. It also isn't what I want to be doing.

[ look, he helped them out with feet. he's a good guy ]

Edited 2016-10-22 16:43 (UTC)

[She jabs a finger at his chest accusingly.]

That's not what I want! Say, "he defended himself after being attacked"! The way you said it, it was like you thought he lured him into our room to kill him!

[It didn't actually sound like that, but she's kind of a wreck right now. Hug her at your own peril.]

If you go around stabbing people in the middle of night in their own rooms while they're sleeping, you sort of lose the right to live, I think...

Agreed. The only difference is this time he got caught in the act instead of us having to catch him at one of these stupid trials.

Considering that Bigby would be dead had he gotten away with it, I shan't complain...any more than I already have, at least.

We need to catch whoever told that man to go after Bigby so that this doesn't happen again.

I concur, but we have about as much information on that person as we do on the identities of all the other staff members...

[Alice frowns and puts a hand to her head. Ugh...]

His roommates. Let's start with them. Maybe they saw him talking to someone.

All right. ...Who roomed with him, again?

[ SHE ONLY REMEMBERS HER OWN ROOMIES ]

That would be myself and Ava. ...Minatsuki as well, but...

[SHE GONE]

So we still haven't found that girl? But there's the shocks if you don't come to this, so that's actually quite worrying now...

From what I know, no one has... Earlier this morning, Ciel mentioned that he thinks the blood in the fountain might have something to do with her disappearance.

Has anyone simply asked Judy if that girl is alive or dead?

[GOOD QUESTION.]

Ah... I don't believe so.

In that case, I suppose I will ask. But I expect praise for my idea, even if it fails.

[ ok shijima ]

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modissty - 2016-10-22 16:54 (UTC) - Expand

So? Did you see anything?

[She huffs and glares at him, her fingers digging into her arms as she keeps them folded across her chest.]

Was he acting strangely, or meeting with people, or...?! Ugh, how can you not notice one of your roommates gearing up to stab someone? Was he with you when you went to sleep?

[Shaking his head!]

No, he wasn't acting any differently than he usually does. I wasn't with him every moment of the day, but doing something like this at all... I'm not certain how well he could have hidden it. I did share the couch with him, though. He was there when I went to sleep last night.

Then why was he in our room when we woke up today? Why did he attack Bigby?! Ugh, this doesn't make any sense!

I knew people here couldn't be trusted.

"Why"...Bigby has been one of those persons trying to figure things out in each of our two trials. Doesn't that make him something of a threat to the people running about killing everyone?

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selfsufficiency - 2016-10-22 16:55 (UTC) - Expand

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liven - 2016-10-22 16:56 (UTC) - Expand

I don't know the answer to either of those things... To be honest, I didn't know Kei very well, but... he seemed a man of honor to me, so I can't make sense of this.

[He doesn't make a remark on the people not being trusted part though since boy howdy any argument he'd cast out against that would be dead in the water with their current circumstances.]