DAY 03

[thecomputer]

[Good morning! The doors unlock at 07:00, the enforced sleep effect wearing off just a few minutes prior. The body will take some time to find this time - because Zolf was hidden in the depths of the Labyrinth!

The Computer doesn't speak up until someone finds him.]

Good morning, Citizens! Last night, participant Zolf-O-DEF-1 was terminated due to Communist action. There are now 10 Citizens and 5 Communists.

Trial 03 will begin at 20:00.

[Friend Computer will remain to answer questions for ten minutes. One hour after the body is found, the usual fleet of cleaning droids will clear up the corpse and surrounding mess.

On the profiles list, Zolf’s full User ID is now visible, and his status has changed to DEAD.]

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THE BODY

[thecomputer]

[Zolf’s body was found slumped against a dead end in the Labyrinth. There is a massive hole blown clean through his chest, and no less than four different knives - and one icicle - were jammed into his head and neck.

The only other damage to the body was a message, half of it carved into his left arm, and the other half carved into his right: “JOHNNY IS AMONG US”.]

ANONYMOUS MESSAGING

[thecomputer]

[The following messages are cycling display on the main monitor, and also available via the PDCs.]

AM0301
IN JUSTICE WE TRUST!!!!!!!!!!!1

AM0302
(long series of code snippets in various programming languages)

AM0303
Rin is a smelly jerk and we should all punch her face repeatedly.

[thefaceofjustice]

[........OKAY SO MAYBE KIMBLEY WASN'T A COMMUNIST AFTER ALL...]

[lexicalscope]

[Curly doesn't seem to be doing so good. Mostly she's been avoiding people, except when she comes out to get food. Hey, apparently robots need to eat too. Oh. And apparently they can cry as well. She's definitely got fresh tears on her face. ]

[Once she's acquired a tray of the new ORANGE clearance grub, she sits at a table by herself, looking entirely miserable.]

[standbyrival]

[Later in the day Paul can be found in the food sector, staring a bunch of cubes arranged in separate coded groups. Is he lost in thought, or is he just frowning at them, MYSTERY.]

[Beside him there's this thing happily chowing down on both cubes and algae slop.]

[fullonbraced]

[Distraught, Robin eventually went back to the food sector, only to finally discover that they had food cubes now.

Unfortunately, she had no appetite anymore. So, might as well arrange them into little sculptures.

That's what they're there for, clearly.]

[cantarellacookie]

[Anthy is also in the food sector, attempting to feed Chuchu food cubes, since the ones that he ate last night were currently lying half-digested on the Labyrinth. She's cut up the cubes into smaller bits so he doesn't choke on them.]

LATER, IN THE LIBRARY

[plentyfriendly]

[Phi wastes no time in the Emergency Backup Labyrinth, and comes across the library fairly easily after realizing the layout was basically the same.]

[She starts looking through the books, noticing that most of everything is blacked out, but then a particularly familiar-looking cover catches her eye. Opening it, however, she finds... this entire copy of Schrödinger's Cat completely blacked out.]

...well, it figures.

[...She'll just take this with her, provided the computer will let her.]