WEEK 2 - TRIAL

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TRIAL

The morning seemed so far away yesterday - yet, it also seems too soon when morning comes and you are all yet again ushered to the third floor by The Lady. The Captain is there, in all of his....glory? It's hard to tell.

The doors close, and he speaks up, this time reclining on one of the couches in the room.

"You know the drill - Since one of you have died during the game, it's your responsibility to try and vote someone out. You have six hours to talk about it, but then-"

He taps on a box on the coffee table in front of him, labeled 'VOTES'.

"-you'll have to put in your vote so someone can be punished. You all saw what happens when you refuse to play, right?"

He leans back, placing his hands behind his head.

"So get to it."

As he says that, music begins to play in the room...


VICTIM: YOSHI NANASE

27 GUESTS REMAIN.

Comments

[justfists]

Akira is not suspicious.

He may have told me, but my arguments were based on actual observations.

[WELL, suspicious beyond the normal level.

don't make her fight you. she'll fight you.]

[latebluemer]

[HAVE THE LONGEST SIGH EVER. It just goes on for a while.

She's not going to have fisticuffs with you, Makoto, please.]

I don't want to suspect either of you, either. But this information came out of nowhere and I'm really... [she's just!!!] What actual observations are those, Niijima-san?

[justfists]

He changed his reasons for why the puppy scared him from it being a ghost, to being afraid it would eat everyone. The ghost example wouldn't have worked, because he was excited about the hotel being haunted, as well as bragging that his best friend is a ghost.

The puppy eating people is... strange, and I'm not sure how he made the jump to that in the first place.

Then, there's the fact that when I said 'Barghest', he was completely unfazed. As if he didn't immediately that he should be shocked by that name.

[latebluemer]

I'll give you that his arguments are inconsistent, and he could have been acting like... like someone inconsistent to make it so that they'd work for his cover.

[God. They're meant to be figuring this out after two weeks of knowing each other, this is honestly the worst. This whole thing is the worst.

But it's the last point that makes her go quiet. She's silent for a little while, listening to the uproar around them. There are a few people involved in this fiasco, aren't there?]

... If Kurusu-kun is making a false accusation, he'll be targeted next week or even sooner. If he's making a true accusation, he'll be targeted. So will you, Niijima-san.

[justfists]

... Then so be it.

I'll gladly put my life on the line for Akira. And I will do my best to help everyone here. Bur we don't move forward unless someone is willing to make an argument, and if people would have believed my arguments sooner, we wouldn't be here.

[latebluemer]

[She makes a small and frustrated noise.]

No, we have to move forward. Last week proved that.

[Of course she knows that, intimately. Even without a game like this, you don't find the path forward without risks -- she's always had that awareness; but a game like this, where people are used as the sole pieces...]

But it's not really about believing in your arguments, is it? Not this time.