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

[alchemicals]

While we're in the middle of verifying that pretty much everyone here hates Moge-ko and that's great, has anyone taken a good hard look at themselves lately and wondered why that particular person died?

[plentyfriendly]

Are you talking about Seryu, or someone else?

[alchemicals]

Himemiya and Moge-ko don't count, they're right there.

[plentyfriendly]

I mean, in a broader sense. Sure, Seryu is the only person we all know that's died once and not still around, but you could just as easily be talking about people's lives before this exercise.

[alchemicals]

If you'd like to tell me how I'd know about any of you, then you can be my guest.

[cantarellacookie]

And in any case, it was because I wouldn't give her Chuchu.

[alchemicals]

See, we know exactly why Himemiya died.

[KIMBLEY.]

[ossifragant]

Our computer friend said it was because of "Communist action," didn't he?

Whatever that means.

[alchemicals]

No shit.

I'm wondering why they took action against that particular person.

[ossifragant]

She was the one to introduce herself saying her hobby is "justice," maybe someone decided to take the initiative to make sure Miss Justice couldn't do whatever she pleased.

[decrees]

Why would the Communists choose her? Did she upset anyone or was she considered a threat?

[ossifragant]

[SHRUG]

Bad luck on her part? Did she say anything odd to anyone?

[respring]

She was very vocal about her...hobbies, wasn't she? In a place like this...

[murimurimuri]

D-don't tell me you're suggesting she and Detective Fulbright got into a... justice fight!?

[alchemicals]

No...?

[...]

...Well, hell, maybe. It's not like I have any better ideas.

[murimurimuri]

No way! I can't believe that was why!

[standbyrival]

More than that, did anyone ever figure out why Johnny was smeared out? Or was that for dramatics?

To the Computer!

[standbyrival]

--okay this is getting dumb. Computer or whatever, refresh our memory. There wasn't any blood on the dead body's left hand, right? Or on the fake arm that was "choking her." Just wanted to confirm this.

If not, we should just think 'Johnny' is irrelevant. The dead couldn't have written it. The only ones who could have written it would be the Communists, or someone with a dumb role that sucks at getting messages across.

[thecomputer]

I'm sorry, Citizen! Investigation of the crime scene is left in the hands of the participants.

[There was a lot of blood around, but it didn't specifically seem to be on any of the fingers. If anyone remembers the scene that well.]

[fullonbraced]

Was... it because she was so into justice, man?

[alchemicals]

...You know Fulbright, right?

Why don't you tell me which you'd go after?

[fullonbraced]

Ugh! Good point!

[She barely knows fullbright and.

Yeah. Justice is basically his thing, isn't it.]

But he's a detective, and an adult! So, this had to be easier!

[stinkingdeadendjob]

....... Oh yeah, hey, I told her that Communists are all pure evil. For all I know, she might've went out hunting for the saps.

[angry_jerk]

[...Slow clap for Clay, everybody.

Granted, he would've done the same thing and probably would have joined her in "sap hunting", if just for the sake of violence.

But he's gonna give a long, sarcastic clap anyway.]

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Hey, everything I told her was the truth. You can't blame me if she was feeling a little too... enthusiastic. Heck, I hardly blame her.