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!]

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Comments

[alchemicals]

If you're talking about the justice thing, they might as well have taken out Fulbright. Have you heard him?

[respring]

Well, can't they only take out one person per night regardless...?

[alchemicals]

...look at Fulbright and tell me that guy wouldn't be the bigger threat.

[respring]

[ a helpless shrug ]

I haven't really spoken with him...

[thefaceofjustice]

I can't argue with that. As a hero of justice, I'm a threat to all evil!

[schrodingers_man]

Not last night. They only killed one, but altogether, they took two from us last night.

[plentyfriendly]

No, not quite. Seryu's profile lists combat skills, and Fulbright's doesn't. We know now that those aren't intended to be relevant, but it could have contributed to her percieved threat level.

[alchemicals]

He's some sort of police, isn't he? Wouldn't that come with the territory?

[plentyfriendly]

Most likely, but they're also supposed to operate on the assumption that people are innocent. Which, given the amount of meaningless evidence, probably won't be an option either.

[alchemicals]

That's the other thing, though - you'd think you would want to take out the people who are actually good at this sort of thing first. Right? Don't you want to take out the smart ones, not the loud ones?

[plentyfriendly]

Yes, but that discounts the possibility that Fulbright is a Communist. Although, can you really say that any of us are actually good at this sort of thing?

[alchemicals]

Look, I don't know if you're just naturally kind of dense or if you're fucking with me, but you're being obtuse as hell and it's really pissing me off.

[plentyfriendly]

Well, that's the point. As far as any of us know, we know next to nothing about each other. And the lists of skills could be incomplete, because I know mine isn't.