TRIAL 04

[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 (the dead are grayed out), plus the word “ABSTAIN”. However, ABSTAIN has now been grayed out as well. The trial begins now!]

[[Vote here]]

Comments

[staunton]

[ clears throat. ]

I'm sure you all already know that Yomiel outed himself as the Loyalty Officer and indicted Robin Newman as a Communist earlier, but maybe we should follow the Detective's suggestion from yesterday's trial and save the known threat for tomorrow while going after a probable suspect today? I don't think it's a bad idea.

Oh, and Newman's probably going to start shouting about how Yomiel's a liar. Show of hands, how many of you believe that noisy runt?

[fullonbraced]

Actually... I don't have to shout, if that's a problem, Mister Knightley?

[wow that brace sure is gone.

And wow, that sure is a girl that's standing at Robin's podium-Oh, wait.]

[staunton]

[ okay, he sure did not expect that. ]

...You're not a guy!

[schrodingers_man]

...

[ Huuuuuuh. Not expected! ]

No yelling is fine by me.

[angry_jerk]

[Well. If Dan had water, he'd do a spit take. And yet, he does it anyway.]

The fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

[angry_jerk]

Well, less believe the brat and more thinking that conehead is too idiotic and murder happy not to screw this up.

[standbyrival]

Do you have another probable suspect in mind?

[staunton]

Of course I do -- Detective Fulbright.

[fullonbraced]

[A young... woman stands at a podium. She's wearing all red, and missing a certain brace that should have been on her, since it almost always seems to be.

But, this was what Robin Newman really was. Not some hotheaded boy - although that was a part of it - but a girl.

And it looks as though the gloves have been taken off. It was time to see what eighteen years of training would do.]

I know I've been apparently outed as a communist by the loyalty officer, who mister Yomiel claims to be. But, I believe that's not true. And, I've been working on a theory all afternoon to try and prove my innocence.

[And that's where this comes in. Robin swings her arm out, pointing a finger at the ghost detective.] Mister Yomiel. I accuse you of being a communist as well, and building a deep network of trust to protect yourself!

[standbyrival]

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[who the fuck is this??????]

[fullonbraced]

[...oh hey. you.

....

Waves!!]

I came up with an argument! Like you said!

[staunton]

Oh, so you're starting with your pawn.

Tell me, little girl, why the hell would Yomiel send three fellow Communists to their death? You should know that the smaller their faction is, the longer they have to play -- after all, they need an equal number of Citizens and Communists to win!

[fullonbraced]

Of course I do, man! But, it's all part of a strategy!

Think about it, he knows who the other communists are because he is one. And then, he goes after a few of them to gain everyone's trust in his judgement. By the end, there's only a few communists left, and everyone listens to whatever he says.

[She waves a finger in the air.] It's like when you give up a few pawns, or checkers to make sure the queen gets away.

[in_plain_sight]

Even if he were willing to kill half his teammates and the citizens who trusted him most already just for an alibi--how would he convince the real loyalty officer to let him get away with lying?

[fullonbraced]

It's easy. The loyalty officer wants to be protected, right? If the loyalty officer was someone that trusted Yomiel enough, he'd totally let Yomiel openly call himself that.

And think about it. Why is mister Yomiel the only person to say that he's the loyalty officer? And why now?

[schrodingers_man]

So I got rid of three of the less useful Communists to make sure all the Citizens believed I was one of them, right? Here's a question for you then, kid. I investigated Anthy Himemiya because she was trying to talk people into believing I was a Communist. If we were both Communists, why would she do that? The trust plan you're proposing only works for one person, and a passive girl like her never would've been able to swing it.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Here's an idea.

[That's a bottle of whiskey he's pouring into a glass. The man's upgraded from algae to whiskey just now.]

What if you were both communists? I think given the web of deceit you both have been laying out for the jury, that's a fair notion.

[harshwords]

Then... can I ask you a quick question? Why did you decide now to reveal that you're actually a girl?

[angry_jerk]

Alright, I've been listening to you morons rant back and forth and back and forth over and over again. Its boring and it all seems to revolve around one stupid fucking point.

Logic.

All of you are soooo worried about the logic behind this death and this death and blah, blah blah, blah blaaaaah! LOOK AROUND US! At what point did you all convince yourselves that logic applied to any of this bullshit?! When we all got clone bodies?! When the first girl we offed could make shields with her mind?! May I remind you said girl was all too happy to eat us if we had the chance. Meanwhile, Sunglasses-Indoors over there thinks he's a zombie, Dickface apparently tried to kill her own sister (probably Cain and Abel style), Assdick thinks purple hair is natural, and the only semi-reasonable one (but not by much) is pissing vomit he's so wasted.

Whoever the asshole communist is more likely to have a giant murder boner right now then they are to have killed someone for logic.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Even if logic is a perfectly good reason to kill a man. Never helped anyone, I tell you.

[Something he wishes his son could take away. Thinking's just not worth it a lot of the times.]

[schrodingers_man]

They're not killing randomly, you moron! Every single death after the first one has been someone with a role! Unless we've got the luckiest Communists on the face of the planet, logic is exactly how they're choosing their victims!

[staunton]

...Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

[plentyfriendly]

You actually do have a point. According to Sakura, the enemy side is under more pressure to win the game than the ally side because there's some kind of emotional leverage against them. It's not reasonable in general to assume everyone will act perfectly logically all the time, but especially not now, given that.

That's not enough to convince me otherwise, though, since only allies with special roles have died as a result of Communist action since Moge-ko.

[standbyrival]

How is that remotely relevant to like, anything?

Also going by your "reasoning," you're pretty much telling us to vote for you. You sure don't go by any earth logic I know of, and you hold the pettiest of grudges.

So if you don't want us to vote for you, shut up, sit down, and wait for this trial to be over and done with.

[harshwords]

[ ... Rin's seriously going to roll her eyes at this because wow, he sure has some anger issues. She's not sure why she's even bothering, but whatever. ]

What exactly does clone bodies have to do with anything? Have you not been paying attention to any of the rules? It explicitly says that if you kill someone, you lose a "clone body" of your own. If someone was really desperate to win, they could have just killed someone they knew was certainly a Communist six times just to win, especially since we, the Citizens have a huge advantage in regards to people.

But nobody's thinking logically to begin with; it's human nature to prioritize survival, after all. But I'm going to second what Phi said -- the first death was obviously random because they didn't have any information besides who every single one of the Communists are. But after the first death, they would have to think up a strategy. It's not necessarily logic, though; it's more of a matter of guessing who can possibly be a threat or not when scanning, and if a role shows up, then good, the Communists can go "let's kill him" because there's roles that can threaten them. Like, you know -- the Troubleshooter that just died?

The reason why we're going with logic for all these deaths is because it's ridiculously stupid to off someone just by mere guesses. But even though I think Robin and Fulbright are acting awfully suspicious, there's nothing to prove that they actually killed anybody nor will there ever be. This so-called "team building game" is just here to make us go against each other, doubt each other, and put everyone into extreme paranoia.

And it's doesn't help that people are lying, but I suppose it can't be helped, can it? At this point, I really don't care who wins, but if we keep going around in circles like this, we're all going to end up dead. So if you have anything that would actually tell us to vote for, I'd like to hear it.

Otherwise, there's no point to this conversation at this point in time; it's just a time waster.