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]

Remember the second trial, when Yomiel made his argument? He tried to cast suspicion on Kimbley using that message as "evidence" and completely refused to back off until Tohsaka confessed to being a Communist. He's a detective, he should realize that a message like that is completely worthless as evidence here.

Also, the timing is pretty suspicious. Rather than trying to make a case on why we should suspect Kimbley early on during the trial, he chose to wait until Yomiel just made a convincing argument that narrowed it down to Tohsaka and Matou -- who both were later confirmed to be Communists. The way I see it, it was a desperate attempt to avoid getting a teammate killed.

[schrodingers_man]

And we know the Communists already knew Kimbley had a role at that point. If they could've talked us into taking him out for them, they could've used that night to get rid of somebody else.

That might've been the aim of the message about Phi in the first place. It would easily be discredited by the Loyalty Officer's word, so they might've picked Phi to accuse to cast suspicion on the person who she voted against the night before. But nobody took that line of reasoning, so the Detective had to propose it himself.

[staunton]

He he he. Thank you, Yomiel. Well said.

[standbyrival]

You both have very convincing arguments. [also flatly. He....doesn't actually care.....] I'd thought about the guy briefly on the first day, but dismissed him since he had waffled on his vote. Guess he was just acting.

Anyway, I don't care who we vote for, but seriously, is there a reason why this guy is ticking you off to go after him first?

[staunton]

I don't like his stupid face, and Yomiel's gonna die tonight if those idiots have half a brain. Let's give the guy the satisfaction of weeding out another Communist before his inevitable demise.

[standbyrival]

Hmph. If that's the case, fine. He'll be my vote.