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]

[ Yomiel's looking considerably better than he did this morning, and considerably more interested and serious than he did yesterday. He doesn't even react to the floor retracting; he just wants this over with. ]

Since the Loyalty Officer hasn't come forward with the names of any definite Communists, I say we vote for Moge-ko. Even if she's not a Communist, she's a threat to all of us.

[ Communists, why did you not do everyone a favor and kill her yourselves, he doesn't understand. ]

1/?

[dictator_ko]

Moge-ko isn't a Communist. If she was, she'd be much happier. I'd get to kill people at night. ♪

[plentyfriendly]

I donno, she doesn't seem like the type to sit back and let someone else kill for her. If she is a Communist, and did it, do you think there'd have been much of a body left?

[I mean, she's not saying "Moge-ko isn't a communist" but...]

[cantarellacookie]

I would be all right with that.

[Anthy doesn't react to floor retracting either, though Chuchu makes a startled shriek and clings to her neck.]

To Friend Computer

[angry_jerk]

Listen, evil Hal-ripoff thing-dick. What exactly is your definition of "weapon"?

[#priorities.]

2/?

[dictator_ko]

Moge-ko is unhappy with this situation. She can't eat what she likes. She can't play with toys until they break. And she doesn't even get to be a communist.

[thecomputer]

Thank you for your question, Citizen! If you are unsure whether or not a given item qualifies as a weapon, you are free to attempt to bring it into the Loyalty Chamber. If you are executed, then it was a weapon.

3/?

[dictator_ko]

I'm not having any fun. I'll find you and KILL you, kidnapper. I'LL RIP YOUR ENTAILS OUT. YOU CAN JUST DIE DIE DIE DIE.

[alchemicals]

So here's a dumb question, since you seem to be our current guy with the ideas.

How do you propose our Loyalty Officer should even get that information to us without drawing a massive target on their back?

[angry_jerk]

You're a real asshole.

4/?

[dictator_ko]

Moge-ko won't just be quiet if you all vote against her. ♪

[ossifragant]

I don't know if there's much point to that.

She's dangerous, but no matter who we vote for, it's a stab in the dark.

5/6

[dictator_ko]

I'll HURT you all if you vote against me. I'll BATHE THIS ROOM IN BLOOD.

6/6

[dictator_ko]

But if you don't vote against me, I'll behave. ♪

[in_plain_sight]

Killing people for reasons other than being sure they're communists is the last thing we should be doing. If you think she's too dangerous to be left alive, don't. I'm handling her.

[Is this a logical argument or would she actually prefer Moge-ko to live? We just don't know.]

screw it 2/2

[angry_jerk]

[Well shit, he's gonna walk in with his handy lighter and see how this plays out.]

[thecomputer]

[Miraculously, Dan is not disintegrated upon arrival.]

[schrodingers_man]

I'm not sure the Communists even murdered our little victim this morning. [ Look at him saying that so casually like it didn't trigger a breakdown. ] The rules say they vote for a Citizen to be eliminated, and that elimination means execution. That's a pretty particular choice of word, don't you think?

But whether or not she's a Communist is pretty irrelevant. What the rules don't say is what happens when someone runs out of back-ups without being eliminated from the exercise, and Moge-ko's already run through two thirds of hers.

I'm not willing to take the risk that she is a Communist and the exercise won't end if she gets herself killed permanently without being properly "eliminated".

[standbyrival]

[likely standing FAR, FAR AWAY FROM CAT GIRL...]

That'd be just fine with me. She's useless anyway.

I will say, if she isn't a "Communist", they're probably hoping for her to distract everyone and save their skins for the night. Or she is, and they don't mind throwing her under the bus. [a snort]

Either way, before that, does anyone have ANY direction to go in?

[schrodingers_man]

How should I know? I'm not the Loyalty Officer, it's not my problem. Maybe they could wait until there's nobody in the Food Sector and then write a message on the floor with that slop they call "FunFood".

[angry_jerk]

[He glances around in surprise before grinning like a maniac.]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH SWEET VICTORY HAS SMILED UPON THE GREAT DAN!

Re: 6/6

[cantarellacookie]

[Anthy looks at Moge-ko as if she's lower than algae.]

You're proving Mr. Yomiel's point.

[dictator_ko]

Moge-ko still has half her lives left. And she's not dying again. ♪

[angry_jerk]

...saying shit like that is not what we'd call "encouraging".

[alchemicals]

Another dumb question before we move on, then.

What's stopping us from suspecting you? You seem really eager to get the deaths started.