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

[thefaceofjustice]

You're confessing???

[IF THEY WEREN'T ON SEPARATE PLATFORMS HE'D BE PUTTING CUFFS ON YOU.]

Why? This makes no sense!

[harshwords]

Because I'm at a huge disadvantage right now, and there's obviously no point to continue this farce of a trial. And besides, it's a win-win situation for all of us, since I'll just be coming back in 24 hours.

[thefaceofjustice]

So you were the one recruited, then!

The troubleshooter will probably knock off your extra life if you come back as a communist, if they don't do it now. If you were trying to waste one of our trials, that wasn't a very good plan!

...Now if you're really answering questions, what can you say about this morning's message? It was from one of you, right?

[harshwords]

That's if I come back as a communist. If they do it now, then that's a waste of their only shot. I do hope they're not stupid enough to do such a rash thing.

As for the message, it was from the Communists. But I wasn't the one who wrote it. That's all I can say.

[thefaceofjustice]

Why were you the one they indoctrinated? It obviously wasn't because of a scan.

[harshwords]

If you've paid close attention to what the others were saying, the answer should become clear to you.