62 | trial #5

DAY 10 (afternoon)
Complex Population: 15

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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Voting will close at 9PM EST on 11/5.

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[ She will. This is a list of items with familiar names. ]

1. THE FISH CATCHER
2. GOOD INTENTIONS
3. PLINK
4. DO-GOODER
5. FATMAN
6. ELEGANCE
7. VIDALIA
8. POWER FIST
9. THE HAWK
10. THE DWARF
11. THOR
12. ROUGH N' TUMBLE
13. DIRT NAP
14. ROCK-IT LAUNCHER
15. REDNECK
16. REESES

That is correct.

[That answers that, then. One last file left, but this one she's more hesitant about accessing with Judy's comment from earlier. Ugh.]

Very well. Thank you, Judy, for answering my questions.

[This is terrible. Everything is terrible. And presumably a little later...? HANDWAVES RP TIME.]

Following Alfendi's request, may we contact any of the dead? We'd... like their input, if they're willing to speak to us.

[ Much less exciting than the others, this just pulls up the VTBBS board, albeit in "Administrator" mode. What does this mean? It means messages are no longer redacted by Judy. ]

If you would like. However, as you are accessing it in administrator mode, be careful. You may trigger the side-effects of this experiments. I redacted content for your safety.

[Well, then. She's not going to click on any of the messages until she makes sure of this first.]

And which side-effects would those be? Something similar to what caused Elizabeth's death?

It is possible. However, this is only if they discuss content that would be extremely distressing to you. The process through which you lost your memories is unstable. A memory with extreme distress associated with it would cause Elizabeth's symptoms. But for mild distresses, a nosebleed and headaches are more common.

In short, the more information you seek about what you have truly lost, the more of a danger it will present to you.

Wait a second.

[Hey again]

So Elizabeth may have died because she recovered one of her memories? Was that the cause of death?

Yes. She had a massive brain hemorrhage.

And the way to recover memories...

[This isn't sounding very good]

Please say all the ways to recover memories there is. Try not to omit anything.

Murder. Prompting by someone aware of the lost memories. A stimulus associated with the lost memory.

...but we recover our memories by killing, don't they? The people who executed the ones that we voted for... they started to remember things.

[Alice frowns.]

Did all of the executioners risk that when they played along?

Edited 2016-11-06 01:44 (UTC)

[???? OH REALLY... well, that's news to him. Hunh.]

Yes, they did.

What?!

[UGH.]

And you couldn't have bothered to explain this before—!

No. The point of this experiment is to apply stress. That is very stressful.

I'll show you stress, you... you...!

Alice. [A sharp tone; he doesn't have anything to throw at her and he can't hobble over to shake her, so that's the best he can do.] You're giving her what she wants.

[ARGH.]

Stop telling me what to do, Lee-Lee!

Then stop doing stupid things!

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selfsufficiency - 2016-11-06 02:09 (UTC) - Expand

adlucem - 2016-11-06 02:11 (UTC) - Expand

selfsufficiency - 2016-11-06 02:13 (UTC) - Expand

Shit...

[ this sucks?!? and they still have to kill someone anyway and he really doesn't know what he should do anymore. ]

So the staff members, are they missing their memories, too? Or did they know about this stuff already? They knew, right?

They are. I spoke to Judy about this after I... After I killed Adam. All staff members have lost memories. Well, all except for one.

[Ciel, probably.]

Yes, they are missing as many memories as you are, save for the Overseer.

[That's fucked up. This is fucked up. Everything is fucked up. She would rather not have anything more severe than a nosebleed or a headache, but. Uh. She'll try the conversations that were published publicly? Perhaps Luke's.]

I assume asking what the purpose of erasing our memories is would be too much even now.

Edited (one day i, too, will understand english grammar ) 2016-11-06 01:42 (UTC)

[ There's no new information on past conversations, as the redacted data has been removed. It will only be for new ones :) ]

In short, yes, it is too much. But to explain to some degree, that was the purpose of the experiment you are all in.

[Oh, boy. Be gentle with them, dead people...]

And this experiment has taken place in every other Complex?

Yes. It has occurred twenty-six times. Your Complex is the last.