sixth trial

[airlockedmods]

[Six weeks, thirteen Champion dead out of their original twenty as well one half of the former Overseer pair. With Jamie now counted as a fellow Champion in the Benefactors' eyes, their numbers have dwindled down to eight.

C.E.C.E.'s announcement sounds and for what may be the last time the Champions must file to the teleporter with their evidence and the Champion Landscape Artist now officially among them. The courtroom is empty this time around, the floating platform as empty as the updated circle of surviving Champion's podiums. Jamie makes a small, humorless sound when he sees the lack of a portrait at Lightning's podium and his own name in glaring green where she once stood.

There's no Bolton to speak to them this time around so it's C.E.C.E. whose voice rings from on high.]

Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom. Eight of you have entered, but if you vote correctly only seven of you will leave. Compile your evidence and select the correct culprit is. If you vote correctly, the culprit will be executed and the rest of you will be allowed to go back upstairs.

Thank you!

Comments

[stitch_in_time]

Not having the inclination's not the same as being unable. See, Jane's very clever, I keep trying to tell her, and I think she's onto something.

Cause see, being the AI that controls this place means you'd be controlling any drones inside it, too, like the little robots in the cafe. Got anything else you can control?

[airlockedmods]

I am capable of controling the mechanical aspects of the ship but I have no direct control over the Champions or the PIPs.

[stitch_in_time]

No DIRECT control...

[He might just be chasing rabbits at this point, but this still feels important.]

Okay. So you're saying the PIPs don't have that kind of ability, to override a Champion's will directly. Is there anything or anyone that does?

[airlockedmods]

No. Each Champion is free to make their own choices on their own actions.

[refusedtoleave]

No, but you'd be able to electrocute them wouldn't you? These thinks seem work the same as a shock collar would.