alphacomplex | DAY 04

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DAY 04

[Good morning! The doors unlock at 07:00, the enforced sleep effect wearing off just a few minutes prior. Feel like braving the Emergency Backup Labyrinth? Because the Edutainment Sector is where you'll find Simon's body!

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

Good morning, Citizens! Last night, participant Simon-G-TRO-1 was terminated due to Communist action. In addition, participant Aud-G-CIT-1 was terminated due to system error. There are now $UNDEF Citizens and $UNDEF 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, Simon’s full User ID is now visible, and his status has changed to DEAD.]

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So the reason we should trust you is that you constantly lie?

[I'm Mukuro Ikusaba, and I have no right to be indignant about this!]

[watching this while eating popcorn flavored cubes.]

He's the only one to get some productive results, that's for sure.

I can't argue with that. But I don't have to like our strongest ally being someone so unpredictable.

Let's look at our options--the crazy guy getting stuff done for better or worst, a loud moron, an angry loud moron, a kid, a robot, the guy crying over his dead friend, a guy that's barely been around or helpful, the crazy man that's been getting drunk on algae, Phi, and yourself.

Do you really have any better options?

...That's a good point. I should be taking matters into my own hands.

[Yes that's exactly what this conversation is about and also what we need with three commmunists left and the identity of one known. Nailed it.]

[well]

[he's not gonna tell her no]

You know what, sure. You do that.

What do you expect me to do?! Just stand up on the first day and tell everyone that I'm the Loyalty Officer? I've been trying to win this stupid thing, and this isn't something you win by being honest!

Apparently not. It's not like anyone has stepped up and tried to defy the computer directly...

How would you even do that? Unless you're actually a Communist and you're planning to test if outing the other two really will get us all killed.

That's not it. We should be experimenting with ways to avoid the guns. I'd have tried making a break for it down that blue hallway already, if there were someone strong enough to give me a boost. I know I could clear that distance too fast for the turrets to hit me if a... friend of mine [I guess] were here.

[ Yomiel's just going to give Mukuro a skeptical look.

Like.

You know how fast bullets go, right? ]

[You don't have to outrun the bullets, Yomiel. You outrun the reflexes of whoever's shooting at you. Even if they're a perfect, unhesitating computer. She does it all the time.

Also with Ogami's help she's literally outrun explosions, so there's THAT.]

It's a moot point for now. It looks like you're going to get us down that hallway safely soon.

I wonder what's down there. It's hidden on the map and the requires the highest clearance out of anything, but we'll still have two Communists left after tonight. There's no way they'll let us out of here before the exercise is actually over, right?

What's down there probably isn't intended to help us escape, but if it's a weakpoint in this complex, I'm going to take advantage of it.

Well, good luck with that, but I'm not going to get my hopes up too high for it.

You shouldn't, anyway. With Kimbley dead, there's no way you're going to live to see tomorrow.

[She usually makes a sort of stumbling effort to be delicate when talking to people about their impending demises, but Yomiel gets a matter-of-fact stare.]

[ Yomiel shrugs. He hasn't thought for a minute that he'd be getting out of this exercise alive. Honestly, he was pretty sure he was going to be dead last night, even with that insane gambit. ]

With my luck, they'll decide I'm trying to cover for Knightley or something.

I wanted to try that a few days ago. We could all have just refused to play so the computer would let us out.

[...She frowns.]

It didn't work.

I didn't mean by telling it we won't follow orders. That obviously won't work. I meant using force.

[Which also obviously won't work, but at least she's better suited to it.]

[Yeah... force seems rather counterproductive right now.]

Yeah... it wont work.

[sadly, that was her best plan down the toilet.]

So, what do you think we do now, man?

...

Unless you make a very, very strong case... probably what we'll have to do next is sacrifice you.

[that's rough, buddy]

[...Huh. So this is what Juniper is probably feeling right about now.]

I will! I'll prove my innocence, and I have a case to make that's the strongest I've ever made!

[It's also the only case she's made, but REGARDLESS]

I think we're all being tricked, and I'm gonna prove it or die trying!

Things look bad for you, but nothing would surprise me at this point.

Yeah... But, it's times like this when lawyers and prosecutors have to smile the brightest and look for the truth!

My friend back home is being framed for murder. I have to get back and help her out man!

...I have people... well, no, nobody is counting on me. But I have people I need to help, too. Good luck to you, but I'm definitely not going to die here.

Edited 2014-11-16 20:17 (UTC)

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fullonbraced - 2014-11-16 20:19 (UTC) - Expand

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