RECORDING 6: THE SECOND TRIAL.

[foundationmods]

The worst has happened... and now you're all here, in the living room where you first met Todd. As all of you enter, the Vessel is there - Olympia, staring balefully at you in all of her robotic glory.

On one of the tables away from the center is a small enclosed box entitled 'VOTES', with slips of paper nearby and a pen. It's sufficiently away from what will be the 'main' action, but not enough to really give anyone complete privacy as they vote.

Once everyone is inside, the doors automatically shut and lock themselves, leaving you trapped in here with the Vessel...and each other.

One of you is a murderer...however, in this game, the guilty do not need to be voted out. As long as there are enough people voted out that matches the victims...then it will be accepted.

...But, can you really let someone get away with murder...?

The choice...is up to you.

VICTIM: JACK MORRISON
PEOPLE TO VOTE OUT: 1

WEEK 2 VOTING

Comments

[cw_suicide]

My argument isn't that the evidence doesn't point that way, it's that Rosa-san's intentions behind the questioning that I'm having issues with.

If you framed it as "you did the holy water thing, therefore it is plausible in this case..." et cetera, but from the start, she made it clear she was asking these questions from a personal grievance, not because of the evidence.

Evidence submitted with that kind of bias needs to be taken with great care.

[look, he's the one who got the line of questioning to go this far with Yuri, he won't tolerate someone being spiteful toward her.]

[accrowed]

Each and every person here is biased in some way, there's nothing we can do about that. It'd be great if everyone could detach themselves from the situation, think rationally, and forget how they feel about each other. [ He wants to sigh here but, he won't. Like, even Dazai is pretty heavily biased in what he's saying and that fact doesn't escape him. ]

But they can't—or maybe sometimes it's more like they won't. It might even be that they shouldn't, given lives are on the line. My point is, even if the reason she's asking is influenced by bias, there's still merit in reminding us the magic from Yuri's world doesn't react to the miasma in ways she expects.

[cw_suicide]

Is there? Because I thought that was already established by my line of questioning about her demons.

[said flatly because yeah, he is biased but also that is why he even pursued that line of questioning]

Yuri-san claims that after she used the holy water, she wouldn't have made the same mistake. Mo-kun even substantiated this by pointing out that even when he begged, she wouldn't use her demons to grow peppers.

So tell me how this argument helps with anything except to put us back in a circle?

[accrowed]

We're in a room full of almost thirty people. Who knows how many conversations are happening right now, and who knows how many of those thirty people catch what's being said. Sometimes, points get lost and need repeating.

Just like sometimes evidence needs to be re-examined. Statements, too. Sometimes you can learn something new by asking the same questions in a different way.