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]

I'll keep that in mind for the future. If we manage to get a Communist off the list today, we might be able to investigate the other rooms.

[alchemicals]

...well, I meant the setup of the game in general, but there's that too.

[harshwords]

Well, think about it this way: in the worst case scenario, everyone can die and there would be no winner. A stalemate. That would happen because nobody bothered to trust each other, and everyone was crazy trying to figure out who was a Communist and who wasn't.

I'm not really sure as to why the game was set-up this way, though Communism was rather common in the 20th Century. There's obviously a reason for it, since it seems to have occurred over 20 times, but those actual answers are unclear at this time. Plus, they're not really important for the matter at hand, anyway.