tikirobo | [ WEEK TWO

TRIAL

In the morning, the beach comes back to life. Birds are back to cawing, the fish splash in the ocean, and insects buzz cheerfully from the jungle. Crabs skitter across the sand and seagulls fight over food (possibly yours). It's a frightening contrast to the stillness of yesterday but it doesn't mean it's over yet. After all, today is the trial.

The Chief stands at the front of the longhouse and brings his hand up to his mouth to let out a whistle. He'll thumb back to the hut-like building behind him and very clearly state --

"Trial time, everyone. Get in here and figure out who did it."

And then he'll turn to head in. The other Chief helpfully pipes up with a, "Make sure to bring a snack, and maybe some water. Hydration is key to catching murderers!"

The longhouse is set up like a meeting hall, with long benches on each wall, facing each other. There's a table at the front of the room already holding a small box and a pad of papers and pen, for voting apparently. Aside from that, the room is empty. It’s only when everyone has taken a seat that the doors close and the Chief speaks.

"Well, have at it. You've got till nine."

And then, he points to a clock on the wall that reads 12:00. Good luck.

Welcome to the trial post! Characters are free to discuss everything related to the trial here. They won't be let out of the room until 9PM when voting ends. Every character must vote and the voting post can be found here.

If there are any questions, please shoot a message to this journal or to tikirobo.

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Okay but that's the thing...it's not exactly the same thing. By not really voting for yourself, you were voting for somebody else who was innocent and this entire situation would have happened and you risked dragging someone else with you.

It's still selfish no matter how you look at it. I'm sorry. It's selfish because you were doing it only to vote for yourself but to avoid the consequences, and that's stupid. I know Yato was innocent, we all knew Yato was innocent! But that doesn't mean you manipulate the game to screw other people over too. That's not how partnership works.

You wanna talk about ridiculous? [Think about that. Sorry annoyed by all of the antics in this stupid trial.]

I never said it wasn't selfish. Just that it was ridiculous.

[It was very selfishly motivated.] Since most people were going along with things as was planned, Joshua was in no immediate danger.

Joshua and myself were woefully aware of how poorly we both seemed to handle our forced partnership and had promised once another to do better. Not that such a thing matters now, we already failed quite throughly.

[there is no limit on eavesdropping at trials, so he flatly interjects]

Cut the crap. At least what you're saying about him.

Which part did you disagree with specifically?

Aside from me, you're probably the person who spent the most time with him. You should know he'd never "promise to do better" and mean it seriously.

He told me he didn't trust you. What are you trying to do at this point, garner more sympathy for yourself?

Of course he wouldn't trust me. I voted for him. Hence why we were such horrific partners, it wasn't just on his end.

He wanted to live. If it meant working with me to achieve that goal, he seemed committed to making a better effort. At least that's what he said to me anyways.

As for saving face, I believe that's hardly at the top of my list of concerns right now. [In fact she's been pretty committed to burning every bridge she's ever had here.]

It's the intent behind it that's worrying. And look at what just happened now by altering the rules. Being selfish isn't going to help any of us right now and I can understand why you did it, but...

[He just shakes his head.] It's not safe for everyone as a whole. You know? [There's a pause.] Thanks. That's all I wanted to know.

[Austria looks genuinely perplexed by something Hiro's said.]

Nein, I don't understand your meaning. Safe for everyone as a whole?

[Sure she took away their fail safe vote, but someone would still be dying regardless.]

Mmhm. Ever hear of the collective vs the individual action? The collective is the idea that society and groups have bigger and more important needs than that of the individual. And when an individual goes against that, that's when society tends to become unbalanced. So...by your actions last week and your actions today, it's kinda hard to think you wouldn't keep throwing innocent people under the bus to save yourself and avoid consequences. And that's not okay. That's all.

That doesn't make sense.

In this scenario I mean. [She's familliar with the concept in a different context though.]

Ja, there is a collective here. However, this scenario isn't set up for us to vote for the good of the group as a whole. It's to pit us against one another. Is your argument that while voting for Herr Yato was unfortunate, it was the only course of action the group could take? Or that by having a fail safe option in the event that we can not decisively find a killer, voting off their partner because they are going to die anyways is fine because it's simply best for everyone?

[He doesn't have time to explain this to her so he just sighs.]

Look. I get that you have a suicidal death wish thing going right now? But you pissed off a lot of people and currently aren't actually contributing to finding who killed Joshua besides saying you're not guilty. So yeah, in this case? It's better that you're our failsafe since you keep proving you're not actually aware of what you could possibly do to the rest of us. So you can actually contribute if you want and try to help us save you, or you can argue with us and pretend that you were better than the rest of us just because you didn't vote for Yato and make excuses.

Either way? Pull your own weight.

[And he's done talking. Bye Austria. This is frustrating and he does feel bad, but this is also wasting time.]

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