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]

My point is that we won't be able to do a thing!

Look at that thing running this! It's a computer! Do you understand how computers work? They follow the rules! They follow the rules exactly! The exercise ends when we identify and eliminate all of the Communists! But when somebody dies by running out of clones, all it says is that it can't bring them back any more! It doesn't say anything about eliminating them from the exercise! What happens if she dies and she's a Communist? We can't execute someone who's already dead! We'll be stuck! Do you want out of here or not?

[ossifragant]

[Well, no. He hadn't thought about that because he'd never heard of a computer before yesterday.]

....you might have a point.

[plentyfriendly]

Look, let's just do this.

Computer, if someone runs out of clones and dies, are they eliminated from the exercise?

[thecomputer]

Thank you for your question, Citizen! If a participant's supply of backup clones is exhausted, then they are eliminated from the team-building exercise.

[plentyfriendly]

And there we go. If, and I don't think she will, Moge-ko runs out of clones and is a Communist, it's the same as if we voted for her in one of these trials.

[1/2]

[schrodingers_man]

...

[schrodingers_man]

[ There's so much relief in Yomiel's resulting laughter that forget just hearing it, you can practically taste it. ]

[ossifragant]

[Greed shoots him a look, but says nothing.]

[dictator_ko]

You're assuming I'd die three more times.

[cantarellacookie]

You won't be attacking Mr. Yomiel after the trial?

[Anthy's tone of voice is fairly measured. On her shoulder, however, Chuchu bares his teeth at Moge-ko.]

[dictator_ko]

I'll be a good girl. ♪

[cantarellacookie]

The same way you're a good girl with Miss Ikusaba?

[She heard Mukuro admit she was keeping Moge-ko under control by letting her hurt her.]

[dictator_ko]

She's just showing her love to me. ♪

[cantarellacookie]

[Chuchu gestures angrily at Moge-ko in response to that, while Anthy continues to stare at her.]

Is she?

[dictator_ko]

That's right. I didn't even ask her to let me hit her. She just offered it. ♪