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

[plentyfriendly]

If you think about it, though, the Communists' goal at this trial is to get us to vote for someone that isn't one of them. Because she's so dangerous, she's an easy target for suspicion.

[staunton]

Yeah, I know that. I was trying to look at the board from the angle of "Why did the Indoctrinator act the way they did?" but we're working with imperfect information. This isn't like chess where you have all the relevant information to base your next move on.

[plentyfriendly]

It's exactly unlike chess in that way. And a little more like the Prisoner's Dilemma, but not exactly.

But the explanation could be as simple as that they didn't realize they could only use that ability once.

[staunton]

The rules say the Indoctrinator can convert one time during the game, and the wording isn't unclear in any way. Only a moron would fail to grasp that, if you ask me.

[plentyfriendly]

I do think we have at least one here, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are. We don't know whether the Indoctrinator's ability is used in the presence of the other Communists or not.

Another possible explanation is that they wanted to increase their numbers as quickly as possible, since they only need to be half the remaining participants to win.