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

[stinkingdeadendjob]

... Oh, yeah. And they might be more preoccupied trying to after the head honchos than citizens like us.

[He pauses...]

But, I... [Was this just a big mistake after all?] Okay, well... Then... Did I damn myself even more for this?

[alchemicals]

...Look at it this way: They already knew.

Now all of us know, and we all might be a bit less willing to decide you have a really punchable face for it. It's not like we can vote for you.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Heh, that's aaaaall I needed to hear.

[There's a tinge of disappointment somewhere deep inside of him, but even he can't explain it.]

Well, I'm glad that I spoke up! Even if it meant risking God's 30th lost commandment, "thou shalt not be a snitch".

[alchemicals]

[......................]

How many lost commandments are there?

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Glad you asked! Not many people know this, but there are a total of 63 Ten Commandments. 53 of them were lost after Moses smashed those tablets.

[Yeah.]

[alchemicals]

...I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but if this is supposed to be divine word you'd think it would have been protected a little better.