7rings | WEEK 1 TRIAL

POPULATION: 33

Rise and shine, little sinners. Did you rest well? Hope you weren't too perturbed by the events of the day before. Things seem to be perfectly normal throughout your morning, but at 12pm, everyone will receive a mass text message to their phone.

good evening, good morning and hello! please come join us in the conference room!

Whether you agree or disagree, soon you will find yourself physically moving toward the conference room on the bottom floor, filing into the room and taking a seat in one of the vacant chairs. Two metal boxes sit at the end of each table along with a collection of pens and colored notecards. At the head of the room, Lust, Pride, Envy and Gluttony patiently wait as the TV above them displays a message.

Victims: Kaz Kaan, Grell Sutcliff

Once the last participant enters the room, the door will swing closed behind them and lock them inside.

For a moment, everything looks completely normal, until you notice Envy slumped face-down on the table, bleeding out from a stab wound in the front. Lust is busy putting a pink fluffy towel under their head, Pride is sitting slouched in a chair twirling a knife, and in that moment Gluttony claps their hands together to get everyone's attention.

"If you would please get started. You all have nine fleeting hours to find out what happened, and place your votes."

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Hello, and welcome to your second trial! Over the course of the next nine hours, characters will have the opportunity to discuss, investigate and theorize about the events of the day before! While mini-investigations were held yesterday, today is the day characters will have time to examine the body of the victim and explore relevant locations.

There will be a mod-tag break between 4pm EST/1pm PST to 5pm EST/2pm PST. While the trial may continue and players can tag each other, mod-led threads such as questions and investigations will be on hold.

Finally, while voting is not mandatory, we do have a voting page should characters wish to vote! Please be sure that your vote is in by the time trial finishes (9pm EST/6pm PST) if you wish to vote.

Good luck, and have fun!

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Statement: It would seem a very important part of my programming was modified unexpectedly—I found it impossible to bring myself to harm a single meatbag. Physically, anyway. And I assure you I certainly did try.

My command authority protocols were also interfered with, such that I was often...obedient. [he shudders with disgust and/or shame]

Wow. Seriously? You're lucky no one went after you this week, huh?

Response: Indeed, as it would have been quite humiliating to suffer attacks from one of these inferior meatbags without any real talent for it. Although I would say those I was unable to harm this week are perhaps luckier.

Yeah? And who would those be?

Answer: All of you who are not yet dead.

Really? Because you did fling some very unfortunate death threats at Kaz last week.

Query: Which meatbag is "Kaz"? I fling a lot of death threats.

Yeah, buddy, that doesn't exactly make you look super innocent.

[He probably shouldn't find this funny but he does]

[ she is hilarious thanks for noticing ]

Yeah, I was about to say...?

I mean, like, as far as murder suspects go? The killer robot who is threatening everyone constantly and calling us "meatbags" is pretty high on my list.

It would be a plot twist if he never killed anyone.

Can't say I'm buying the whole "oohhhhh, I can't hurt anyone, I'm just a poor little robot, pleaseeee sir, can I have some more?"

Okay, I don't know why that turned into Oliver Twist, but you get my point.

Oliver who?

(no subject)

messybench - 2021-02-20 21:08 (UTC) - Expand

aubins - 2021-02-20 21:11 (UTC) - Expand

messybench - 2021-02-20 22:23 (UTC) - Expand

Totally get it. And I agree wholeheartedly. Why are we acting like being way too into murder is a quirky trait?

messybench - 2021-02-20 21:09 (UTC) - Expand

toesies - 2021-02-20 21:11 (UTC) - Expand

messybench - 2021-02-20 22:22 (UTC) - Expand

I'm not defending him or anything, but... I kind of feel like he wouldn't hide the fact that he killed somebody if he actually did. I mean...

[ GESTURES TO ALL OF HIM ]

I mean, why wouldn't he? He'd get impaled on a murder bouncy house or whatever if he did confess. Robots can have self-preservation too.

Response: Unless I am experiencing memory loss errors, which I never do, I did not kill anyone I made death threats to this week.

Assurance: You will know when someone has been killed by me [he uh...didn't say "if"??], as I do not engage in meatbag theatrics and fruitless attempts at masking my work. I far prefer efficiency of time and method. [he indicates the space-rifle on his back, which he is for some reason still allowed to have]

I mean, assuming you're not lying, we're all experiencing losses this week, bro. Plus, the whole being voted out and killed horribly thing? I mean, no one's going to just admit to having killed.

[ also-- ]

Can someone please confiscate that robot gun?

Statement: I have never had the chance to participate in voting of any sort. I must say I quite enjoy it so far.

[at the mention of trying to take his gun, he removes it from his back and holds it with casual menace like those fat guys who protest in walmart]

Wow. Just... wow.

...

[she sighs]

The pink-haired one, HK-47.

Statement: Ah, yes. He did seem rather easy to kill, as the wealthy often are.

...I don't believe saying that is helping to make anyone less suspicious of you...

[inwardly weeps about her murderous roomie]