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]

So, let's start with the basics. The one who died was Greed-san, who was apparently the partner. From the events that occurred earlier today, it seems rather obvious that the true target of the Communists was actually Puppington-san. Things we found in common with the two cases were the word "Johnny" found at both of their corpses.

There was also a message that said "PHI COM" at the mess hall, in an attempt to indicate Phi-san as a Communist.

In regards two these two events, I have several questions to ask. One: any ideas as to why Puppington-san was targeted? And two: is the message at the mess hall a red herring? If it is a red herring, then a third question arises: who has a reason to target Phi-san?

[angry_jerk]

Well, Clay's pretty religious. Maybe its a satanist.

[alchemicals]

I think it's kind of funny that the message showed up in the exact way Yomiel suggested the last time we failed to kill any communists.

[harshwords]

...Do we even have any Satanists here?

[harshwords]

It's possible that the Computer has a strange sense of humor and decided to go with what someone said publicly.

[angry_jerk]

Communist, Satanist, same thing really.

[harshwords]

They're two completely different things. I could be a Satanist without being a Communist or vice versa.

[alchemicals]

It's also possible we have a really uncreative Loyalty Officer.

Kind of hard to say either way, isn't it?

[staunton]

I think the Scanner chose Mr. Puppington during the first night. The result was positive, so they chose to target him the following night. The Loyalty Officer, the Defense Officer and the Troubleshooter are the biggest threats to the Communists, so obviously they want to get rid of the people with special roles as quickly as possible.

[harshwords]

I suppose you're right about that. Unless, of course, Yomiel-san himself was the Loyalty Officer all along. Though if you consider the method, the message being from him is very low unless he was truly desperate.

[harshwords]

That seems rather plausible. And since they didn't know what their role was, they decided to just simply kill him off. But it doesn't seem to have gone as planned.

[schrodingers_man]

...Whoever wrote that message should speak up now. If they're a Citizen with a real reason to suspect Phi, I want to hear it. If they're not, then we can safely ignore it.

After all, it wasn't written by the Loyalty Officer.

[murimurimuri]

What do you mean by that?

[harshwords]

So you're fine with just ignoring a message without figuring out the real meaning behind it, even if it wasn't written by a Citizen?

[in_plain_sight]

Are we sure Puppington was Greed's partner? Yomiel seemed to think so, but he obviously wasn't thinking straight at the time. We should confirm that detail before we base all our reasoning on it.

[decrees]

What makes you say that? Besides, I doubt the person responsible for the message will speak up.

[harshwords]

... No, it wouldn't make any sense for him to go on a rampage like that if he didn't know. He seemed rather close to Greed-san, after all. Besides, if we want to confirm it, we can just ask Puppington-san himself. There's no point in hiding your identity as a partner now, considering that the Communists would already know who he or she is.

[standbyrival]

If that message is a fake, it wouldn't matter if anyone had a specific reason to target Phi Com. It doesn't matter who the Communists scapegoat.

But if it is real, it's probably someone with a stupid sense of humor using shades' guy suggestion, and likely someone with a role. So they could be pointing a Communist out to us, but how the heck are we supposed to know? They need to leave a better sign.

[schrodingers_man]

It's pretty simple. Whoever wrote that, did they really think the real Loyalty Officer would stand for being impersonated? Of course not. But we can't expect them to reveal themselves just for somebody they haven't investigated yet. She really could be a Communist, for all we know. But they didn't write that message. That's why I want to know who did.

[harshwords]

... What are you talking about? Of course it matters who the Communists scapegoat. It's totally possible that they're attempting to take out more than one person with a role like that.

But it's not as if we can tell whether or not the message is real or not to begin with unless they left any clues on accident.

[schrodingers_man]

If it was written by one of the Communists, then the real meaning's pretty obvious, isn't it? They want us to kill off another of our own without thinking about it. We shouldn't waste any time on it.

[schrodingers_man]

Say what, that the real Loyalty Officer didn't write it? You can't figure it out?

They told me that themselves.

[decrees]

Right, and we're supposed to believe you without any evidence. For all we know, you're a Communist trying to frame another one of our own.

[schrodingers_man]

We're sure.

[harshwords]

Well, of course I know that. But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about whether or not the Communists would want us to not only kill off one of our own, but someone with an actual role or not.