TRIAL 01

[thecomputer]

Attention, Citizens! You have ten minutes to proceed to the Loyalty Chamber. Anyone who is late to the Loyalty Chamber, or who brings any weapons into the Loyalty Chamber, will be immediately executed.

[Once you arrive, you will find a large chamber, with twenty podiums spaced around the room in a circle. On the ceiling, a massive screen showing the digital eye of The Computer, turning to look at whoever is talking.]

You have one hour to come to a consensus about who to eliminate. Ties will be broken randomly.

[The floor of the chamber begins to split apart, eventually only leaving the twenty podiums as safe places to stand, above a seemingly bottomless abyss. Each podium lights up with a touch screen showing twenty user IDs (Seryu-R-CIT-1 is grayed out), plus the word “ABSTAIN”. The trial begins now!]

[[Vote Here.]]

Comments

[schrodingers_man]

[ Yomiel's looking considerably better than he did this morning, and considerably more interested and serious than he did yesterday. He doesn't even react to the floor retracting; he just wants this over with. ]

Since the Loyalty Officer hasn't come forward with the names of any definite Communists, I say we vote for Moge-ko. Even if she's not a Communist, she's a threat to all of us.

[ Communists, why did you not do everyone a favor and kill her yourselves, he doesn't understand. ]

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[dictator_ko]

Moge-ko isn't a Communist. If she was, she'd be much happier. I'd get to kill people at night. ♪

[plentyfriendly]

I donno, she doesn't seem like the type to sit back and let someone else kill for her. If she is a Communist, and did it, do you think there'd have been much of a body left?

[I mean, she's not saying "Moge-ko isn't a communist" but...]

[cantarellacookie]

I would be all right with that.

[Anthy doesn't react to floor retracting either, though Chuchu makes a startled shriek and clings to her neck.]

[alchemicals]

So here's a dumb question, since you seem to be our current guy with the ideas.

How do you propose our Loyalty Officer should even get that information to us without drawing a massive target on their back?

[ossifragant]

I don't know if there's much point to that.

She's dangerous, but no matter who we vote for, it's a stab in the dark.

[in_plain_sight]

Killing people for reasons other than being sure they're communists is the last thing we should be doing. If you think she's too dangerous to be left alive, don't. I'm handling her.

[Is this a logical argument or would she actually prefer Moge-ko to live? We just don't know.]

[standbyrival]

[likely standing FAR, FAR AWAY FROM CAT GIRL...]

That'd be just fine with me. She's useless anyway.

I will say, if she isn't a "Communist", they're probably hoping for her to distract everyone and save their skins for the night. Or she is, and they don't mind throwing her under the bus. [a snort]

Either way, before that, does anyone have ANY direction to go in?

[staunton]

Can we all stop and think about what the Indoctrinator did last night? They chose to convert despite it being more strategically sound to do so later when they have a better idea of who they want on their side. Why did they do this?

[ There's a brief pause as he considers his words. ]

Perhaps Moge-ko is among the Communists and they know people are gonna want to eliminate her, so they chose to convert immediately to keep their group from getting smaller right off the bat.

[fullonbraced]

Yeah! Uh, she seems really dangerous, man!

[murimurimuri]

She's scary. She's really, really scary...

[lexicalscope]

As much as I'd agree with you, could we at least see if anybody has found anything that might give us a clue about who the communists are? If we're practically going to stab in the dark, we should try to be smart about it! Even a little bit of a clue would be better than choosing her simply because she's a menace.

But if there isn't any evidence to be heard, then I completely agree. If she's not one of them, we'll still all be better off without a distraction like that causing chaos. That would only benefit the communists. If she is one of them, then she could be even worse, assuming that they can control her to fit their agenda.

[thefaceofjustice]

Given her behavior so far, there's enough grounds for me to try placing her under arrest. I'd really be more comfortable doing my job as an officer than trying to act as a judge...

To Friend Computer

[angry_jerk]

Listen, evil Hal-ripoff thing-dick. What exactly is your definition of "weapon"?

[#priorities.]

[thecomputer]

Thank you for your question, Citizen! If you are unsure whether or not a given item qualifies as a weapon, you are free to attempt to bring it into the Loyalty Chamber. If you are executed, then it was a weapon.

[alchemicals]

While we're in the middle of verifying that pretty much everyone here hates Moge-ko and that's great, has anyone taken a good hard look at themselves lately and wondered why that particular person died?

[plentyfriendly]

Are you talking about Seryu, or someone else?

[ossifragant]

Our computer friend said it was because of "Communist action," didn't he?

Whatever that means.

[murimurimuri]

D-don't tell me you're suggesting she and Detective Fulbright got into a... justice fight!?

[standbyrival]

More than that, did anyone ever figure out why Johnny was smeared out? Or was that for dramatics?

[fullonbraced]

Was... it because she was so into justice, man?

[ossifragant]

[And after that is over with...]

Does anyone here know what "Johnny" could be referring to? My understanding of slang isn't the most current.

We should rule out whether or not this is a real hint or something meant to throw us off.

[staunton]

I don't remember seeing any blood on the little lady's fingers, so I doubt she wrote it. It's most likely a red herring.

[dictator_ko]

Listen up! Moge-ko isn't kidding when she says she's peeved at the kidnapper! You had better give me a less boring role! Moge-ko has nothing to do at night! It's really dull! No fun picking out who to die, no special things to do! I'm angry enough already at being kidnapped, but this is the worst! I'll KILL you, kidnapper!

[plentyfriendly]

So you claim that your role is Citizen.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Y'know, those bloody footprints were sure kinda goofy. If anyone got a good look at them, we might have this case wrapped up with a cute lil' bow.

[standbyrival]

Apparently we need to do more actual investigating next time. It's a stupid exercise and a wanna be detective novel now.

[alchemicals]

[...this is just getting asinine.]

...So after all of this, we've got no concrete leads, whatever happened to Ubiquitous was probably completely random, Yomiel's gotten his head out of his ass long enough to make a good argument for why we should all think Moge-ko is a communist, I personally don't like Phi's tone, I am not taking my damn shoes off because I know I'm going to fall if I do, and everybody here still hates Moge-ko. And that's great.

Is that about it? Does anyone have a reason to not vote for that girl now, or should I just put a vote in and be done with it? Because I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sick of standing around yelling at everyone.

[in_plain_sight]

...I... can't think of an argument.


[Mukuro doesn't necessarily like it, but nobody wants to hear an argument about her Having a Bad Feeing About This. She's not exactly defense attorney material.]