TRIAL 02

[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 (the dead are grayed out), plus the word “ABSTAIN”. However, ABSTAIN has now been grayed out as well. The trial begins now!]

[[Vote here.]]

Comments

[harshwords]

Of course it matters. I don't mind if they want to keep their privacy, but if we're going to win this game, we have to go on the offensive.

Though it would be nice if they at least told a few people they trust.

[schrodingers_man]

Only one role needs to come out in the open for us to go on the offensive. And there's no point in doing that unless they can prove that they really are who they say they are. And, unfortunately for us, there's only one way for the Loyalty Officer to prove their identity: they give us the name of a Communist. Until they find one, we've got to rely on our own wits.

[harshwords]

And you're just simply going to trust that person easily? Even if they give a name of a Communist, you can never be too sure until you kill them yourself.