The Mock Trial

[airlockedmods]

[Jesse McCree is dead, the first victim of, what the Overseers seem to hope, is a long game of motives and murder for whatever their reasons. With the investigation completed, C.E.C.E.'s voice comes over the system and directs the Champions to proceed to the locked elevator door at the end of the hallway. Once all Champions are on board, the elevator begins a slow descent down beyond any area that they've been able to explore so far. At least the elevator music is charming.

When the elevator door opens, the Champions enter a courtroom with 21 podiums arranged in a circle and each one marked with a name. McCree's face grins casually at the 20 surviving members from one of the podiums, a greyscale portrait in honor of the dead.]

Congratulations. We have now entered the trial portion of the test. I trust that you will do your best to determine who disturbed the peace by committing murder. Once the culprit has been found, they will face an appropriate punishment for their crime. If you fail to determine the culprit, however, they will be allowed to leave the space station and the rest of you will face punishment instead.

Comments

[stitch_in_time]

Yeah? Where's the option to vote for the Overseers, then. Way I see it they're as guilty as anyone here.

[airlockedmods]

I'm afraid that is not an option at this time, Doctor.

[stitch_in_time]

...Fine.

[This is a load of the holiest of horseshits, but it's also once again a choice between one life and many lives. And for all his talk, he still hasn't found a way around the Overseers' cutting them off from anything useful.]

>Champion Blogger

But Cece? Tell the Overseers they've lost their chance.

[airlockedmods]

I will do that, Doctor.

[overears]

That girl straight up killed a guy. Just vote for her and get it over with.

[stitch_in_time]

Yeah, she did. Doesn't make their hands any cleaner.

[misplacedxsheath]

And had she not and the Overseers made good their threat, we would have collectively doomed millions through our inaction. Compared to that, one life is nothing.

[overears]

I don't care about any of that.

[misplacedxsheath]

Then don't judge someone else for not calculating the weight of life based on whether or not it's right in front of her.

[overears]

Just get it over with.

[almightyconflagration]

Can't choose what happens, but you can choose how you react to it. Or are you saying only her free will was taken away?

[stitch_in_time]

I'm saying she was given an impossible choice, we all were. I honestly don't know if I can say she chose wrong, but I know I can say for sure who forced that choice on everyone.

[almightyconflagration]

She chose to kill a man and made an attempt to get away with it that would have killed the rest of us. The only good choice she made was to stop wasting our time and confess.

[stitch_in_time]

Yeah. And none of it would've happened to begin with without them. I'm not saying she's innocent. I'm just saying I know where the root of all this is, and I plan on yanking it up before I'm done here.

[returnofme]

Thank you.

[returnofme]

I'd like that option too.