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

[in_plain_sight]

You eliminated most of the pairs as being particularly likely to indoctrinate each other, right? So... doesn't your theory accusing Tohsaka and Matou only work if one of them was a communist to begin with? There's... only a one in four chance of that, if I have the math right.

[You don't need good math skills to shoot people, so she might not have it right.]

[schrodingers_man]

You've got it right and wrong. Probability's tricky like that. Every single one of us has a one in four chance of having been picked as a Communist. But I named a sample of six people. Eight if you count Greed and Kimbley. Picking between just two people, you're not much more likely to get a hit than if you're looking at just one, but between six or eight people, there's a much higher chance that one of those hit that one in four chance. Every lottery ticket has the same chance of being a winner, but if you buy more, there's a higher chance one of your tickets will win, right? It's like that.

[in_plain_sight]

Hm... I guess if you decide that one of those six people is suspicious, then narrow it down from that pool, it makes some sense to land at those two... but I still don't think it's that strong of a case. I'd rather focus on who's acted suspicious than try to figure it out with numbers.

[She means you, dude. No hard feelings.]

[schrodingers_man]

None of us has a strong case. I'm trying to guess at the motives of a group of people, and I don't know who they are. They're just shots in the dark.

Honestly, if we could abstain today, that's what I'd argue for. But thanks to me, we can't do that, so... This is the next best thing.