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]

It depends on how much of a sense of irony our computer friend has. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that there's one real hint hidden among everything else.

[ He didn't really get a good look at the body and crime scene during all his freaking out, but a few salient details stuck in his head, and he's gathered there was some weird nonsense from all this discussion about "Johnny." ]

For example, there was an arrow through the kid's heart, and only one profile lists archery as a skill. But it could just all be nonsense.

[ He's not really accusing Sakura of being a Communist. Maybe. Probably. Yomiel you've proposed like three potential Commies this trial already, slow the fuck down. ]

[in_plain_sight]

I can fire a bow.

[Yes, perfect, insist you be counted as a suspect! Get back on topic, Ikusaba.]

...Anyway, how would we weed out the fake clues from the real one?

[schrodingers_man]

The way these profiles look, I wouldn't be surprised if half the people here can.

[ Why is everyone so violent. ]

I can't really help with that, though. I didn't exactly get a good look at it.

[ What with it triggering a nervous breakdown and all. ]

[in_plain_sight]

So your best lead barely even narrows it down...


I guess at least for this first trial, we can't really learn anything from the body.

[She's kind of disappointed. She may be better suited to being on the supply side of murder, but she's always ranked hardboiled detectives second in coolness only to commandos.]

[schrodingers_man]

My "best lead" is still Moge-ko. We've got more to go on than just the corpse they left.

[respring]

Mmm...you're free, of course, to disregard my opinions in this case, but...I don't think I could fire an arrow with that amount of force, anyway. It was lodged right into her heart, but...only a crossbow or a longbow could do that. That in and of itself supports the 'crime scene decoration' theory.

[schrodingers_man]

I wasn't suggesting you personally killed her. Just that the arrow brings your profile to mind. If we really wanted to, we could probably come up with ways the clues point to all of us. She was strangled with a robotic arm, we've got a robot here. I've been told I look like a "Johnny" before, if we want to stretch it that far. It's probably a waste of time to think about it too hard.