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

[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.