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

[cyan_maid]

[Jane has to stop herself from automatically shouting out her response - she's getting frustrated, but not enough to lash out at Jamie.]

...Tell me how you would know that for certain, Jamie. Please.

[theoverseers]

She's not programmed to lie. She can deflect and talk around but she can't lie. To the point where her honestly can get a little, um, brutal. [AIs are not programmed with tact here.] She can monitor the PIPs but she can't directly interact with them outside announcements.

...C.E.C.E. and Bolton were my only company for the past year. I know it sounds stupid but I trust her enough to believe her.

[cyan_maid]

[Jane grits her teeth and looks away.]

...I can accept that. But you've got to accept that I don't see a reason to trust her.

[Sorry to be the AI Racist]