AFTERMATH 01

[thecomputer]

Thank you for your input, Citizens! The results of the trial will now be revealed on your screens.

[The interface with the voting buttons vanishes, and is replaced with the following:]

Anthy-R-███-2 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Aud-R-███-1 voted for Nobody
Bobby-R-███-1 voted for Nobody
Clay-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Curly-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Dan-R-███-1 didn’t vote
Greed-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Horace-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Logan-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Mogeko-R-███-4 voted for Nobody
Mukuro-R-███-1 voted for Nobody
Paul-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Phi-R-███-1 voted for Zolf-R-███-1
Rin-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Robin-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Sakura-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Simon-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Yomiel-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4
Zolf-R-███-1 voted for Mogeko-R-███-4


Total:
Mogeko-R-███-4 (13)
Abstain (4)
Zolf-R-███-1 (1)

Comments

EXECUTION

[thecomputer]

[One minute after that declaration, Moge-ko’s podium/cage suddenly plummets downwards, into the inscrutable depths. A second later, tiny hatches open all along the walls below, and massive torrents of raging flames emerge. You can feel the blazing heat even from as far away as the inferno is.]

[After ten seconds, the incineration stops, and the floor slides back into place, the door opening once more. There are now eighteen participants remaining.]

[On your PDC, rules 13 and 14 have been updated.]

[in_plain_sight]

[It's very rare that Mukuro likes someone, in the traditional, functional sense of liking. But for some people, in her own way, she comes fairly close, and Moge-ko was in that category. Who was she to hold instability and violence against anyone? As a soldier she'd never flinched at being an obedient killing machine, and as (distant) second-in-command of Ultimate Despair she'd been accessory to worse crimes than Moge-ko had ever committed. Probably.

...Still. She's seen a lot of those "almost sort of like" people die. She's killed some of them herself. There's no reason to have a breakdown. Those new rules, though...]

...

We have to kill someone every day from now on?

[standbyrival]

[on the other end, this guy is semi traumatized, but eh, every kid needs to see something horrible every now and then. he shrugs]

I think it means when the trial starts. If someone casts a vote for a person, no one is allowed to abstain afterwards.

[in_plain_sight]

That can't be it. We don't see who voted for who until the trial is over in the first place.

[standbyrival]

. . .oh yeah.

Then it's not allowed at all, guess we ruined any chance of dragging this out.

[respring]

W-Why would that be added now? It's only the first trial, if they didn't want us to abstain from the beginning...

[in_plain_sight]

It was a trap. We'd have been more careful if we knew.

[schrodingers_man]

[ He hecked up. HE HECKED UP SO BAD. ]

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Hmm, I guess that's exactly what it means. And while it seems unlikely we can count on anything like evidence to guide our judgments, we've got something even better: prayer, and a one fourth chance.

...

let me out of here

Re: EXECUTION

[cantarellacookie]

[... Anthy isn't sure how she feels about this new rule.]

[harshwords]

Well, it looks like these new rules will make the game quite interesting.

[ossifragant]

[His face is impassive during the execution.

This was going to happen no matter what they did tonight. It just so happened that they didn't accomplish their goal of actually rooting out one of the Communists. What a pity.

His gaze lingers at Kimbley for a moment, inclining his head just slightly towards the door.]

[stinkingdeadendjob]

What have...

[The heat engulfs Clay and he holds his arms up, trying pointlessly to keep it away. He looks over from his podium at the inferno below with terror and anxiety all over his face... and if someone would bother looking further, they could see a tinge of guilt in Clay's narrowing eyes.

But the moment passes, and the tension eases on Clay's face. His expression returns to one of disinterest.]

I'd chalk this one up to a preemptive judgment. She would certainly have killed someone else later on, so this wasn't in the least a total waste of a vote.

[fullonbraced]

[Robin had never seen anyone actually die before. She'd heard about Professor Courte's murder, and even seen a picture of her corpse once or twice. But this gave that a whole knew meaning. She didn't even know Moge-ko that much, but she was still really shocked.

She was there. And now she... wasn't.]

[thefaceofjustice]

NOOO!!!

[Wow this is a lot freakier than a California state execution.]

[plentyfriendly]

[Well, dang. That's not the kind of death she was expecting. Definitely more thorough than any she remembers.]