alphacomplex | TRIAL 02

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TRIAL 02

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.]]

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...Whoever wrote that message should speak up now. If they're a Citizen with a real reason to suspect Phi, I want to hear it. If they're not, then we can safely ignore it.

After all, it wasn't written by the Loyalty Officer.

What do you mean by that?

It's pretty simple. Whoever wrote that, did they really think the real Loyalty Officer would stand for being impersonated? Of course not. But we can't expect them to reveal themselves just for somebody they haven't investigated yet. She really could be a Communist, for all we know. But they didn't write that message. That's why I want to know who did.

...So you're in contact with them.

Well, that's not surprising. There's no way you're a Communist, right?

I sure wouldn't be talking so much if I was. Manipulating things from the shadows is more my style anyway, but that's not really an option this game gives for us Citizens.

I see...

I believe you.

...Thanks.

So you're fine with just ignoring a message without figuring out the real meaning behind it, even if it wasn't written by a Citizen?

If it was written by one of the Communists, then the real meaning's pretty obvious, isn't it? They want us to kill off another of our own without thinking about it. We shouldn't waste any time on it.

Well, of course I know that. But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about whether or not the Communists would want us to not only kill off one of our own, but someone with an actual role or not.

...Does it really matter to the citizens whether or not she has a role? That kind of information is best kept private.

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.

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schrodingers_man - 2014-11-09 23:50 (UTC) - Expand

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harshwords - 2014-11-09 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

What makes you say that? Besides, I doubt the person responsible for the message will speak up.

Say what, that the real Loyalty Officer didn't write it? You can't figure it out?

They told me that themselves.

Right, and we're supposed to believe you without any evidence. For all we know, you're a Communist trying to frame another one of our own.

Hey, don't shoot the messenger. If this is a Communist distraction tactic, it started with the guy who talked to me. But, personally, I'm willing to take them at their word.

What exactly did they tell you? Can you at least tell us that much?

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schrodingers_man - 2014-11-09 23:35 (UTC) - Expand

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schrodingers_man - 2014-11-09 23:46 (UTC) - Expand

[Anthy looks thoughful.]

If Mr Yomiel is a Communist, it might explain why he'd want attack Mr Puppington for not being eliminated instead of his friend.

He's been very adamant about getting us to vote for someone during these trials. It could be that he just wants to get these over with as quickly as possible, and there was reason to vote for Moge-ko, but...

[It doesn't look good, let's put it that way.]

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cantarellacookie - 2014-11-09 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

...I won't apologize for what I did this afternoon. But if I was a Communist, I wouldn't have cared. All the Citizens die in the end, anyway.

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schrodingers_man - 2014-11-10 00:22 (UTC) - Expand

You know the Loyalty Officer? Are you sure?

Did they mention anything we can use for the trial?

As sure as I can be with just their word for it. But if they're willing to take a risk by outing themselves to me, I'm willing to pay the good faith back by trusting them.

But they didn't have anything really useful to offer. We're on our own again for this one.

We should at least know if they revealed anyone as safe. Even with the chance of the inhibitor covering the person the loyalty officer investigated, it may give us better odds of making the right decisions in votes.

I'm sorry, Detective. We've got one unlucky Loyalty Officer on our hands. The only names they've cleared are mine and Greed's.

So that's why you're speaking for them? That's not all unlucky. It's good that there's at least one person that they can talk to.