TRIAL 03

[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

[fullonbraced]

...SERIOUSLY? THAT SUCKS, MAN!

[murimurimuri]

I guess...

[Said in the passive tone of someone who does not agree in the least, but is hoping to get out of any further conversation.]

[angry_jerk]

You're- ugggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Why is he here. Why is he dealing with this.]

I don't know who this "neesan" is, but both of you and your magic hair fill me with utter disgust.

[Dan: completely ignorant to many things. Occasionally including words.]

[respring]

[ frowns deeply ] Neesan is Rin Tohsaka. [ and that's all she says, knowing full well Dan pretty much hates Rin. Her facial expression pretty much does a 160 from 'passive indifference' to 'put the dots together yourself you fuckwit' ]

[respring]

She's tried to kill me before, so I guess it's not really surprising.

[in_plain_sight]

...I still think the timing of Greed's death made you look bad at the time... [moot point Murks just let it go]

Anyway, I'd say Communist is a pretty important role... but I guess I don't know how she meant it.

[respring]

[ and after a while, Sakura withdraws a piece of folded paper from her pocket, holding onto it tightly ]

Well...if you're all going to vote for me either way, there's something I need to do. I'd appreciate it if someone could give this note to neesan--Rin Tohsaka--whenever she comes back. It's nothing secret, so you can read it if you really want to.

--and not vandalized beforehand or outright thrown away to spite either of us. It's somewhat important. [ lookin' at you, dan >8| ]

[angry_jerk]

She had magic hair too? Man, fuck that guy.

[in_plain_sight]

...Yeah.

[It's not like she doesn't realize she has a pretty weak case. But letting someone die for caring too much about her sister hits a little close to home.]

[in_plain_sight]

...I can keep it safe.

[respring]

Ikusaba-san...?

[ she. looks surprised for a moment, blinking blankly. She seriously didn't expect anyone to listen to her request. 'Commies don't get last rights,' or something like that. ]

Thank you.

[ she isn't trusting her reflexes to not drop it into the abyss below upon tossing it over, so she...folds it into a paper airplane and sails it over to Mukuro. HER PAPER AIRPLANE SKILLS ARE, IN FACT, PRETTY GOOD.

Is this what we're doing with last words.

Paper airplanes???

Alrighty. ]

[in_plain_sight]

[She could have jumped over but this is probably a little less dangerous. Just a smidge. It's a nice plane though. Respect.]

Of course. If I were in your situation... I'd want to tell a couple of people some things.

[angry_jerk]

How is that different from other families?

[standbyrival]

[okay paul's been trying to ignore this but finally he gives dan SUCH A LOOK]

Magical hair dye makes no sense.

But purple hair is natural.

[I MEAN REALLY]

[angry_jerk]

Listen brat, I know all you ingrates today are high on iHeroin and Pottop commputers or whatever, but that's no excuse for being so whacked out you think purple is a natural hair color.

[standbyrival]

Stop speaking gibberish. I was born with this hair color, and so was my brother, and many others. It's nothing to get worked up over.

[thefaceofjustice]

If that's true, maybe we should target another suspect and remove Ms. Sakura at the next trial instead. We might catch the scanner or inhibitor... and the sooner, the better. The loyalty officer is undefended without Mr. Kimbley.

[angry_jerk]

WHAT.

[What was that about getting worked up?

[standbyrival]

[t-twitches slightly. you people. these people!!]

Why are half the people here loud and morons. . .

[angry_jerk]

You're the one telling me, against millions of years of scientific advancement and research, that there is such a thing as natural purple hair. Pretty certain you're the moron here.

[schrodingers_man]

And who should we target, Detective? Mukuro's right about one thing, at least; we should avoid voting without anything strong to go by. Sakura's our safest bet. Her sister should return to us one this trial's finished, and if everything's gone like we've hoped, she should bring the names of the other three with her.

[standbyrival]

--and pass up getting rid of a Communist that's practically being handed to us on a silver platter? Come on. Who would you even go for?

[standbyrival]

Unless you are one of the scientist involved in said advanced research, you have no ground to stand on. Judging from your ignorance, body odor, and general unkempt look, I'd bet you're from a more primitive world, anyway.

[angry_jerk]

I'LL GO PRIMITIVE ON YOUR FACE WITH MY 2013 SKILLS, YOU PATHETIC, FESTERING PARASITE FEEDING OFF SOCIETY!

[standbyrival]

And look how it reacts so violently to just words. Good job proving my point, lowlife.