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!]

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Comments

[schrodingers_man]

...Is that why you killed Kimbley?

[fullonbraced]

[Yomiel no]

No, of course not! Kimbley was my friend, man! If anyone didn't want him to die, it was me!

[schrodingers_man]

[ Yomiel always ]

But he had a role so he had to go, right? That's just the way it was, is that it? Just a lousy draw?!

[fullonbraced]

I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THE DEFENSE OFFICER! IT WASN'T MY DECISION, MAN! NONE OF IT WAS MY DECISION!!

[schrodingers_man]

...

Of course not. You, Anthy, Sakura, none of you were the brains of the operation. So who is?

You want out of this trial alive, you're going to have to do the same thing you're accusing me of doing: throw one of your "comrades" under the bus.

If you didn't want Kimbley dead, then show me who did!

[fullonbraced]

............


Objection. I can't tell you, even if I wanted to. We'd all die.

[Which, she almost wants at this point.]

[schrodingers_man]

You've been studying law, right? Haven't you figured out how to bend the rules yet?

It doesn't matter. I know who it is, anyway.

[fullonbraced]

The biggest thing we learned at school was that the ends justified the means. I guess that's what goes here.

Oh Yeah? I think you're still a bad liar, Mister Yomiel.

[schrodingers_man]

I'm through with lying for now. I'm a dead man tonight no matter what I say, so I might as well tell the truth.

[in_plain_sight]

[Who has two thumbs (which she is not gesturing with it's just a saying) and is tired of Yomiel being right?]

Are you new to interrogating people? "We'll kill you tomorrow instead of today" isn't a very good bargaining chip.

[Mukuro may have tortured a man once.]

[schrodingers_man]

[ Look the only interrogation Yomiel's ever been in, he was on the receiving end and it ended poorly for everyone involved. ]

What should I say? That she might make it out of this whole thing alive? We all know that isn't true.

[in_plain_sight]

I don't know. Promise someone will do something for her friends and family back home?


[She does have a couple people from her world here, though one is probably also going to die...]

[schrodingers_man]

If you want to try that, go ahead, but I'm not really in a position to promise anything like that.

[ Since, y'know. His chances of getting out of this alive aren't any better than Robin's. ]