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

[schrodingers_man]

[ Yomiel is still radiating "PISSED OFF" after this afternoon, but since when has being pissed off ever kept him from participating in trials? ]

Does anybody have any arguments for why we shouldn't all vote for Sakura right now and be done with it?

[standbyrival]

[JUST LOOKS AT HIM.....but doesn't say anything]

[angry_jerk]

...That sounds like someone I'm supposed to know.

[Dan doesn't keep track of names or faces that aren't on his revenge list.]

[schrodingers_man]

The girl with the long, purple hair.

[ You know, the girl with the purple hair who he didn't already murder. ]

[angry_jerk]

You mean purple-dyed hair.

[respring]

It's not dyed... [ although it also isn't her natural hair color. ~magic~

but yes this should be the thing she's focusing on right now. instead of protesting her innocence. ]

[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]

[plentyfriendly]

Cloning is a thing, why not genetic engineering?

[fullonbraced]

She's Rin's friend, man!

[....]

Actually, I guess they're not friends!

[angry_jerk]

Oh, then fuck he-

What?! Well, which is she?!

[fullonbraced]

I don't know, maaaan! She said she'd kill Sakura if she had to, or something!

I don't think that's a very good friendship!

[thefaceofjustice]

[Looking over his PDC.]

...No. After hearing yesterday's testimonies, she's my top suspect.

[fullonbraced]

[Robin was more exhausted than anything, considering she'd just seen both her roommates die, and one be revealed as secretly a communist.]

...Uh, I can't think of anything, man.

[in_plain_sight]

...When I suspected you yesterday, you and Kimbley seemed pretty opposed to voting based on limited evidence.

[And hey, she WAS wrong about you, so apparently it was good advice.]

There could easily be another reason Tohsaka was converted. She even said Matou was a Citizen when she confessed, and she had nothing to lose at that point by keeping quiet.

[murimurimuri]

Um... wasn't there a penalty if she implicated anyone after confessing? A really horrible one!

[in_plain_sight]

Yes, but that wouldn't have kicked in if she just refused to answer questions. ...Probably.

If she really did intend to betray the communists, actively lying to defend one would have been a waste of breath.

[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.]

[schrodingers_man]

I don't remember her saying Sakura's a Citizen. She said she didn't have an important role. Sounds to me like that just meant she's not the Inhibitor or the Scanner.

I don't remember Rin making any strong impressions that first day, either. There's no stronger reason for her to have been converted than simple sentiment.

This isn't limited evidence. It's a lot more damning than having a short temper and a big mouth.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[plentyfriendly]

Her exact words were "Sakura doesn't play an important role in this game."

[what, her memory's gotten a real good workout okay?]

I don't believe there are any roles in this game that aren't important, but that does point to Sakura being a Citizen.

[in_plain_sight]

That's how I took it, too... if we think of an "important role" as one that can do something other than just vote at each trial, then even the normal Communists should count.

[staunton]

Nope. She's not our Indoctrinator, but I'm sure would have been easy to persuade Himemiya to convert Tohsaka.