trial #5

[judgejudy]

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. — ic rulebook character statuses character profiles Voting will close at 9PM EST on 11/5. voting

Comments

[selfdenying]

They can't, of course. But would they want to be deleted forever?

I can't imagine it's an easy decision for anyone in this situation. I don't know how I would feel, knowing I could be deleted at any time...

[liven]

Making absolute statements like that is a little much...

But either way I care more about them than the other idiot who's been hiding all this time. So let's kill him instead.

[selfdenying]

Let's ask what Elizabeth and Bigby think. I want them to have a choice in their own fate, Shijima. They deserve that much.

[liven]

Oh, very well.

[becauseimacoward]

If they say no, what do you suggest we do? Stay here and hope for a better chance? [Dojima sounds unnaturally dismissive of such thing. He must be really fed up of all this] Who would want to be deleted forever?

Who says they won't be deleted forever at a later point, too? Judy has them at her mercy. She could hold their lives as a bargaining chip at any moment.

And once we can get out of here do you think we'll be allowed to take them with us? Hell, does it mean they'd live forever in Judy's database? That doesn't sound like a good thing, in my opinion!

[Realizing he may be letting his frustration get the best of hi, Dojima starts taking deep breaths. He does need to calm down and stop thinking about all this in 'there's the chance of getting out of here' terms]

[selfdenying]

We have to respect their wishes, Dojima. It's like a patient in the hospital with a chronic disease. If they say they want to keep living like they are, the doctor has no choice but to leave them be, despite what he believes.

[Those are some good points, though.]

We don't know a lot of things. Is it possible to save them, to remove them from the database? We don't know. Let's see what they know, now that Judy seems less likely to censor the truth.