week 4 - trial

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week four trial



[At 9 AM precisely, the old grandfather clock chimes once again, and the doors to the drawing room are opened. They will remain open until everyone has come inside, after which they will shut behind them. It is not possible to leave on your own, although perhaps if you have a specific purpose the hostess will allow you to go, as long as you are accompanied by a partner.

The room is set up comfortably, with several tables by the fireplace set out to assist with the trial. The Hostess will also remain in a seat near the fireplace, next to the scales on the mantle. At lunch, the doors will open to bring in a large meal on an automatically rolling buffet, and at 3 PM, tea and finger sandwiches will be served. You'll be able to enjoy the trial in comfort, of course, but the information cards set out on tables will not allow you to forget your true purpose here.

At 7 PM, the trial will adjourn for the day. Players will be escorted by the Hostess to the ballroom, where dinner and wine will be served until 10 PM, at which point players will be required to return to their wings in groups with their wingmates and will be locked in their bedrooms until 8:30 AM the following morning.]

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Comments

[humanic]

I miiiiiiight have asked her at some point whether we could repair her if she died. Which is a totally legitimate question! I wasn't saying she was worth less than the rest of us or anything, I just wanted to know if it'd be possible to bring her back!

[allice]

To chime in: theoretically we could. All her data up until Tuesday morning is in the computer, so it would just need to be uploaded into a functioning robotic body. The philosophical debate on whether it would be the same Rin or not is another 'food for thought' issue.

[humanic]

Great! Now we just need to find a functioning robotic body in this place. Same Rin or not, it's still a hell of a lot better than the other dead people are gonna get.

[allice]

Math and computer cracking I can do. Building robots I can't. Besides, I bet the crazy veil lady wouldn't let us bring back Rin so easily. She'll probably confiscate this laptop once the trial is done.

[humanic]

We probably shouldn't let her do that. I mean, if that really is her on there, it'd just be murdering her all over again, wouldn't it?

[allice]

In a sense, it would. But I doubt the Hostess cares, all things considered.

[inthebones]

I had the same thought. Golems can be repaired to an extent, far more than humans.

But if her memories are in there.

...And her body is... here.

Can't we put those back in... this?

[???]

[humanic]

Well, her body's pretty busted up and none of us have robotic engineering skills written on our cards.

She said that she could die the same way we do though and since you could sense her, that must mean she did have a soul. But whether that soul's stored on her back-up data, I have no idea.

[inthebones]

...Oh. Yes, I suppose the damage must be extensive.

Could we put something back in some other bits of metal as a... temporary measure? Alice did a sort of reverse process, didn't she?

[technology is magic]

[humanic]

I think you have to be an expert at building a...metal body to even begin storing her in there. Even my world doesn't have anything close to that advanced an AI, and we've basically got computers that can fit in our hands.

Besides, she wanted to kill two people for no reason. It'd probably be better if we hold off trying to bring her back until after we find a way out of this game.

[inthebones]

...Coming from one of the people she wanted to 'dispose' of, this was a more theoretical observation, in any case.

I doubt our hosts would be very taken with the idea, though.

[respecting]

Damn, this trial's gettin' kinda deep, huh?

[humanic]

You're telling me. Robot ethics isn't exactly something I've ever had to think about before. Except for how the hell anyone could understand what R2-D2 was chirping.

[respecting]

Yeah, that's the normal thing to think about - not where R2D2's soul is at. Wit' this, I don't know nothin', yo!

... It's kinda different too, knowing what was going through the victim's head. [They aren't ever going to know what Lydia, Minatsuki or Dave were thinking....]

[humanic]

Different in a good way or bad way? I mean, we found out that she was seriously considering killing two innocent people, so I can't say I feel as terrible about her death as the others. Maybe it would have been better if we'd never found those notes.

[respecting]

It just goes to show you don't know what people are thinking. I used to have mind reading too, but never in this kind of situation... maybe it ain't so good.