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

[murimurimuri]

Erm... because after this trial, the Defense Officer can just ask Yomiel to pass their name to the Loyalty Officer?

[alchemicals]

If they want to assume they're not passing their name to a particularly convincing communist, sure.

[murimurimuri]

Y-you think one of the Communists is posing as the Defense Officer?

[alchemicals]

Who knows? Maybe Yomiel's a communist. Maybe the person posing as the Loyalty Officer is a communist. Maybe whoever ends up going to Yomiel after this is a communist claiming to be the Defense Officer.

I've been saying this from the first day - if the computer wanted everyone to die this badly, he could have just left it up to some of us and we'd have gotten it done in less than half the time.

[murimurimuri]

I don't know about the Loyalty Officer, but I don't think Yomiel is one of them. He was so upset about Greed...

[alchemicals]

...Yeah.

[That...actually seems to get him to shut up to some extent.]

Yeah, I don't think he's fucking with us when it comes to being pissed off about Greed.

[murimurimuri]

That's why. He wouldn't have made that mistake.