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]

It's not. Want to see?

[ She raises her left arm and causes her magic circuit to glow, her index finger pointed squarely at a wall where nobody is there as a black, ominous sphere appears from her fingertip. She won't shoot it at anybody, this is just a demonstration. ]

[in_plain_sight]

Is that... some kind of laser blast...? That's really cool!


[Focused on the important things.]

[harshwords]

[ She'll stop the gandr for now, knowing full well that it would be bad to use it on anybody right now. ]

It's more like a bullet than a laser. It's called a gandr; it's a simple curse that can make you sick. But with enough strength, it can also kill you.

[in_plain_sight]

So the same weapon can safely be used to kill or incapacitate... that's really useful.

[harshwords]

It is, actually. Normally, I wouldn't reveal such information to normal people, but well-- it's already in the profiles, so there's no point in me hiding this much.