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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RESTARTS THIS TRAIN

[puffing]

[ let's go ahead and handwave that the abstain thing was a... thing. for convenience. they needed to get back on track and think of where they wanted to go for this. ]

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'.

[liven]

I've already said everyone I find suspicious. It ought to be someone else's turn by now. But I do agree that it wasn't Elizabeth or you.

[ so ]

[selfdenying]

Adam seems to be the most likely, but the idiot seems to have a death wish. He could just be a red herring for all we know.

[liven]

I still agree he's suspicious.

[mansplains]

I doubt it's Adam. Why would staff defend each other so loudly in public?

[Franziska wasn't subtle, either, but it seems so counter-productive to Guy]

[selfdenying]

I wouldn't doubt that there are staff members willing to take the fall for others. Besides, before Luke died, nobody knew he was staff, and Adam defended him then in an attempt to prevent people from looking at him too closely.

Anyways, it seems too obvious, yes! But I suspect he does know something, staff or not. We'll see if he'll be anything other than dumb and stubborn for the rest of the trial.

[mansplains]

Sure, but Luke's already gone. If Adam were staff, wouldn't he milking the 'betrayed' angle be a better cover? None of us would blame him for being upset, and it'd be an easy way to throw suspicion off of himself.

But yeah, I can see that. I think he'd more willing to share if people stopped accusing him, in any rate.

[onepunchgirl]

I disagree on Adam. Staff members wouldn't passionately defend each other like that in front of open crowds.

As far as whoever we vote for, I do believe we should be straight forward with our choice. If anyone cares, I could give the name Franziska told me but I'm not going to claim she's absolute.

[antietam]

I think listening to her is the worst thing we can do. [ He's not going to defend himself but he's definitely going to rag on the dead. ]

[onepunchgirl]

Nobody asked you.

[She doesn't think he's staff but he sure is annoying! ]

[antietam]

You asked if anyone cared. [ Is he not anyone )8 ]

[liven]

One would think the anti-staff wouldn't make themselves targets, either. Assuming everyone is capable of subterfuge is clearly not a thing we can do.

[ apparently. ]

You may as well give the name.

[becauseimacoward]

At this rate you're going to have to say it.

[Because yeah, Dojima agrees Adam is not a good option]

It would give us a starting point, at least, something to discuss.

[grimdeity]

May as well give the name, with the caveat that there's a fair chance Franziska was just guessing like she was when she named Lara.

[onepunchgirl]

Yeah but I did say I would give that person a fair shake today, to see how i felt. Honestly? Wasn't impressed.

But if everyone seems to agree - the person was Alvin. And like I said, I did want to give him some benefit of the doubt, but his reason of voting for Franziska was less than impressive.

[selfsufficiency]

[Even without the abstain thing - ]

I still think Cici's suspicious.

[She's thought that for awhile though, so.]

And I don't think we can vote for Adam. Supposedly, Luke sent him a... message? Of some kind? From beyond the grave. Either he lost it and imagined the whole thing, or he's actually communicating with him somehow. But it's not like he's going to communicate with any of us, so we need to keep him alive for now just in case.

[grimdeity]

Adam dabbles in ouija now does he? That's dangerous stuff. Or so I've heard.

[selfsufficiency]

He said it was an email or something. I've never used emails before coming here, so I don't really know.

What's so dangerous about it?

[antietam]

... I'm not going to be your carrier pigeon.

[selfsufficiency]

[really dude]

You know I'm trying to give them reasons not to kill you, right?

[tearable]

Alice, can you expand on where your suspicions stand?

[ Elizabeth is truly curious. Not that this is payback for suggestion she strip, nbd. ]

[selfsufficiency]

I've actually been suspicious of him since the first death.

[She shrugs lightly.]

You know when we first got here and we were looking around? I went to the apartment he was in because I heard my name get called twice before I knew there were two of us. Cici was in there, and he was super adamant that he was going to get the bed.

...but after Charles turned up dead, Cici said that Charles was the one who slept in the bed the first night. It's a petty reason to kill someone, but I've seen people killed for pettier.

He's also... well, you heard him, didn't you? The first trial, he pointed fingers pretty fast. He also seems like he's really careful to contribute but not contribute too much. He shares opinions sometimes, but not too much. He's trying a little too hard not to stand out.

And then, earlier, when we started talking about suspects, he distracted us all by having us check for injuries. It was pretty subtle, but it was the same kind of distraction we thought that staff members might be doing to throw us off the scent.

[tearable]

[ She hates this? There is no solid evidence. There is no proof or anything that leads to a guilty party. At their core, aren't they really ... really just shooting in the dark?

Bigby's words take her back and luckily, she's sitting next to him and giving him a elbow in his good side. ]

Don't fight my battles. [ Especially when they were both suspected, what the heckie? ] Adam would be too obvious, would it not? A classic revenge story of a lover scorned. He - ...I'm not sold...

[puffing]

Don't tell me what to do. [ and he's scowling at her for hitting his good side. just because it wasn't bandaged up didn't mean that he wasn't sore. ] And what happened to being a lady? I thought ladies weren't supposed to hit people.

[ Luke apparently did not get that memo. oops. ]

And I wouldn't have thought you'd want to get so close to me after―

[ after they were shipped together. yep. ]

Obvious, yeah. But it doesn't mean it's not possible.

[tearable]

You clearly haven't spoken with the right kind of ladies.

[ Narrowing her eyes a bit, she realizes what he suggests and relaxes her gaze. Sorry she scoots away. ]

Right, I'll remember not to get close when you bleed out again.