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

[thefaceofjustice]

I agree, we shouldn't make this kind of move without a really good idea of a second suspect. ...So I'm wondering if we might have one. We can at least discuss it.

Ms. Rin wasn't allowed to give their names to us. Do you think that will be lifted?

[schrodingers_man]

We can hope it is. If she's not a Communist anymore, then hopefully the rules won't treat her like one. Even if she can't just come out and give us the three names we need, she should at least be able to tell us if we're barking up the wrong tree. And we need that. Our Loyalty Officer is powerful, but they have to guess the right names first.