trial #4
![]() Complex Population: 19 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 10/29. voting |
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[ like. she likes angel? so this is fucking stupid? but. ]
If we're meant to kill all four remaining staff members, we need to kill him eventually and while it is unfortunate Angel would die as well, it appears we're not getting a choice in the matter, since no one was able to disable those collars and the coward won't do it himself, presumably.
At least one of those murders last night was probably thanks to our security staff handing out weapons willy nilly, given Kei's entire thing, though...
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[ steve, at least, seems unwilling to sacrifice someone for this. ]
What about... What if we press the guy? Make him tell us some other names? We can pick one of them and let him live 'til tomorrow so we can at least take the collar off!
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[ she raises an eyebrow. ]
And I doubt the collars are coming off at all. But should you like to waste your time on idealism when that avenue was already checked, by all means feel free.
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[ basically... ]
And yes, it is idealism. It became idealistic the second those collars became a thing. We let him live, he kills more people. But by all means, feel free to trade however many lives for one, if you want.
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There's got to be another way! What if we... imprison him somehow, or something? Restrain him, keep him from killing more people. That would buy us some time.
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How did this excellent plan not occur to me sooner.
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Shijima, if we cut open Steve's head, do you think we'll find his brain has shrunk to the size of a peanut? Because I think so.
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Shut up, already! At least I'm trying! It's like you guys want her to die!
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So we trap him somewhere, then! While we're awake! There aren't that many scientists, so if we all get something really heavy and barricade a door, maybe...
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[ I mean - congrats, staff members are scientists. Where did she get this info??? The terminal. ]
Judy doesn't give a damn about an innocent dying and neither does this guy.
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Yeah, well, I give a damn. So should you. We don't need to play by their evil little rules. We need to find a better plan, and fast.
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[ Ouch, no one wants Angel to die!! ]
If they can't get the collar off anything we do to Rhys hurts her. We all need to work towards getting that collar off or trying to find an alternative route to take.
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[ no one wants her to die, logically, but steve is a moody teen who doesn't like when things aren't going the way he wants. which means he's lashing out at people who are also on his side. ]
Okay, so we get the collar off. Someone in here must know how, or... have something we can use to smash it. Right?
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I'm trying to bring the attention to the right source - we need to understand that this choice... there's going to be a tough one to make. We're trying to figure out how to get the collar off, but there's no promise. We don't even know if we have the right tools!
[ They are all yelling at each other now!! ]
I do not want that woman to die!
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Then we'll make the right tools! What if we take apart one of the chairs? Maybe we can get a -- a metal bar or something out of them, and...
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Steve, it's okay.
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What are you saying? It's not okay! You're gonna let yourself die just like that?
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Your choice? Angel, you can't just choose to die. That's like... it's like you're killing yourself. You gotta fight, man.
[ maybe she's a bigger person than he is, he doesn't know. if he was in her position, he'd be fighting, even if it put the rest of them in danger. ]
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This is my way of fighting back. If I'm to go out, I'm leaving with my dignity. I refuse to give him — and the rest of the staff — the satisfaction of watching me squirm.