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

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[tearable]

[ They've already talked with Bigby, as much as they could, so she hopes among him sobering up, he can defend himself properly. She has her suspicions of everyone, but the guy was absolutely mangled at this point. He'll be an easy target by staff if they want to finish the job.

She just wants the dead bodies to stop. ]

So we have to ask: why and how? How did someone get access into the room and how was Kei armed further?

[ Elizabeth's striking a cigarette, nbd. ]

We don't need a damn vigilante when we're all worried about our own hides.

[liven]

Access to the room and armed further are about the same thing. It is obvious that the staff persons have access to abilities we do not - such as telling Judy to undo their cuffs, or open doors. It should be safe to assume their opposing forces also have extra abilities.

Whatever Kei was, he was someone who could get into a locked room and who had an extra weapon. I think the only "how" could be "having an extra title"...or whatever you call the anti-staff. Or staff. It hardly matters which he was at this point.

[ since he fucked up? ]

As to "why", that's equally hard to determine, isn't it? We assume the Staff are running some experiment. But is the anti-staff running an opposing experiment, or are they "good" insofar as they're meant to help us? It seems more likely to me they're two sides of the same coin, and neither are specifically out to save all of us. One side might not be entirely against us, but that's not the same as being for us...

[tearable]

Agreed. For the time being, until proven otherwise, we can only assume Kei was a staff member. There would be no other proof otherwise. Bigby's testimonial to us before all of this implied Kei did not work alone. I don't give a damn if it's some other party... they think they're doing good but it's going to send a panic.

[ Elizabeth was actually pretty pissed about it. ]

That's when we overlook things. That's when we make mistakes. That's when we send an innocent person to their execution.

[ Shijima has the wisdom that Elizabeth is lacking right now, mostly because she feels as if this is going to drag on the entire day and what -? For nothing. ]

I'll be blunt with you, Shijima, once we heard about the six others... I have no doubt Franziska was one of them too. She claimed to be able to protect someone if they cooperated. It was an insistence that seemed fueled by something under the surface that we can't quite pick.

[ Who promises to protect someone so adamantly...? ]

[liven]

Unless Judy says otherwise to those questions, I will agree with this way of thinking. As to Franziska...I believe it could have gone either way, actually.

[ she shifts, crossing her arms, as she explains. at least she still seems to be keeping her "fine i guess i'll help in trials" promise to bigby, though at least half of what she's said that hasn't been defending him has been playing devil's advocate. ]

That woman absolutely was the sort of person who had absolute confidence in her ability to do things. I do not think that means she absolutely had that ability. Either she was overconfident as was her apparent nature, and the staff assumed as you did she was one of the six...or she really did have the ability to protect others and was an idiot who played her hand too soon.

Those are the only two options. Without confirmation on the count of people on either side, we can't say for sure just yet.

[tearable]

[ She chews on the other woman's words a bit. It was interesting. Elizabeth didn't see Franziska as dumb but this move? If she did have a role... or was a pure innocent, either way - she painted a target on her back. Elizabeth admired the woman for her bluntness but knew the time and place was less than ideal. ]

So you think someone got too big for their britches and it came back to bite her in the ass? [ As blunt as that was. ]

We need to see how and if Franziska's death ties into the attack on Bigby.

[liven]

That was what I assumed, yes, although I have heard the theory of her having one of those six slots from many others. I personally thought she was simply making promises she could not keep.

[becauseimacoward]

Would one of those six make themselves such an obvious target?

[Because if there was something Dojima was sure about was that Franziska would be attacked]

[tearable]

Are they obvious? They sent someone else to do their job. Unless we're making alliances for candy and cigarettes... the person who sent Kei had to have been involved as some way - probably one of the six.

[becauseimacoward]

No, you misunderstand. I meant von Karma being one of those six.

['once we heard about the six others... I have no doubt Franziska was one of them too.' He seems to be a bit antsy about that part. He had intended to warn Franziska, tell her to be careful, but he never came across her anywhere]

[tearable]

Right. [ Because I'm cooking breakfast and my bacon was burning oh god. ] If you think of yourself as highly as a confident woman like she did...? I don't think she thought of past that trial.

[ She says, a bit sullen. ]

The woman claimed to be passionate about the law and instilling justice... perhaps all she knew was to protect others more than herself.

[mansplains]

I don't understand that woman. If she had a role, why did she act out like that? I get that she's passionate about justice, but if she had the power to protect people... why did she paint a target on her back?

[tearable]

Maybe she overestimated herself? We have no idea what benefits this woman had being part part of the medical team. [ Since this was definitely revealed. ] I warned her - but there's nothing anyone can do when we're passed out to our knowledge.

[ She sounds sad: ]

It was a waste and I can only hope she went quickly.

[mansplains]

[Elizabeth is pretty compassionate. Guy didn't even speak to Franziska, but he could respect her convinction. And she was young.]

Yeah. [It looked painful, but Guy's not going to day as much.]

But you were right about her having a special role.

[tearable]

I wish I wasn't. We're down a medic.

[ :/ ]

[mansplains]

Yeah. But Judy says they're a pair, which means there's still someone else out there.

You've got a pretty good intuition, Elizabeth. She wouldn't have been my guess for medical.