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

[fullonbraced]

[Never be sorry. sob]

OF COURSE I FEEL BAD FOR IT, MAN!!! [She shouts, more distraught than ever. Her right hand instinctively grips her right arm, just at where the sleeve ends.]

But then that Yomiel guy started talking a lot and everyone was listening and... and it seemed like a good idea, maaaan!

[Robin always was one to get caught up in the moment.

....Blinkblink? She tilts her head slightly, confused.]

Anthy? We've been rooming with Kimbley for the past few days!

[standbyrival]

So were you just following the crowd? You're a really simple guy. No one would suspect you at all if you just went with the flow.

Someone please explain to me how who you share rooms with has anything to do with how you become friends with someone. Aside from reminding her of her fiance, do you actually have anything in common? Seriously.

[alchemicals]

Maybe the kid is rooming with me because I don't treat him like a fucking moron, and we actually like what we've seen of Anthy.

You know, just a thought.

[standbyrival]

And that makes you all best friends forever? Didn't know you were the type.

And if you have such faith in his intelligence, then you can't rule out that he's using his nice kid act to cover for being a Communist. Right?

[alchemicals]

Funny, I don't remember ever saying I wasn't ruling that out.

[standbyrival]

Hmph. Thanks for being one of the few not being held back by shallow attachments, then.

[alchemicals]

Don't get me wrong, I like the kid.

But if he ends up being a communist, then he's been trying to stab me in the back this whole time, and I'm not too interested in keeping someone like that around.

[standbyrival]

I don't like anyone here. [no one asked you paul!! ]

Unless something better comes up, my vote will be for him. I'll wait until everyone's had a say, at least.

[alchemicals]

...Someone should try to figure out who the lucky candidates for death actually are, shouldn't they.

[standbyrival]

Probably.

[fullonbraced]

I became friends with 'em by being nice and treating them good, man! What about you? Don't you have any friends around here?

[standbyrival]

No.

[flatly. WHY WOULD HE.....]

Sorry, but unless someone else has a better argument, you're going to be my vote. I'm going to wait and see what everyone else says, first. If I'm wrong, I'll probably get killed or you losers will vote me off and be down another citizen or something. Whatever the case, I refuse to take another completely blind shot.

[fullonbraced]

[....Paul you scare her, and you're also kind of sad.

But, Robin nods.]