The Third Level Society Bookkeeper's name is Layna Mersk. Susan Parans was the one leading the accusation against Blake but Parans was joined by myself, Marcus Climon, Jon Hogan, Edoma Layne, and Phalia Curston. Meanwhile, Blake was joined by Jack Areon, Sara Michels, Harmony Meristan, and Corley Banks. Edoma Layne, being the incumbent Dungeonmaster, recused herself from the process, as per tradition. However, with no such tradition for Layne's challenger, Phalia Curston stayed.
So the session with Bookkeeper Mersk began with Susan Parans presenting against Blake her accusation: that Blake had violated a restricted dymensional plane, committing actions with the potential to unleash catastrophic consequences that would upset the integrity of the Arturian Realm.
To this came Jack Areon, who insisted that there were no notices anywhere of Planet Mahathia or its system being restricted. Jon Hogan argued that there was an indicator in all the jump gates if one queried the Mahathia plane accordingly, and also that there was an extra layer of restriction if anyone created a jump hole to Mahathia.
Hogan was right, of course. I saw the same thing on my mission with Raven. But Sara Michels from Aldin Blake's side insisted that a lot of systems had such a layer, and that Mahathia did not list a specific reason their system was restricted.
"Why access Mahathia in the first place?" Marcus Climon argued.
To that, Blake himself answered by arguing how "we should learn to act humanely even though they are just algorithms."
"While we believe in freedom of movement and basic rights our brothers and sisters in the real world," Curston explained. "We need to remember that this principle does not apply to self-casting avatars, which are, in fact, just algorithms in the algorithm book. These ones, in this case, were found to do more harm than good. And in fact, by having our current measures in place, we are protecting those other avatars cast by Members, thus adhering in this case to the principles of humanity."
Counter to that rose Harmony Meristan, who explained how she had a religious upbringing and was "taught not to hide problems but rather to confront and resolve them."
"Even if these avatars are dangerous," Meristan added. "We must eliminate them, not hide or contain them."
Then she explained how Blake tried to make this case to Dungeonmaster Layne last year, but that the Dungeonmaster refused to listen.
"That's a lie," Susan Parans whispered to me.
Despite that, when the Bookkeeper asked, I, myself, passed on speaking. I was new to the organization after all, but then Climon approached me during the 15 minute recess. "The vote is very close," he told me.
So when the session resumed, I took my stand. I made it public the encounter with Blake in the Immersion Console room six days ago. To this Blake said that I was exaggerating and that he had come up to me that day to apologize.
I knew he was lying but I was a bit apprehensive to assert myself. Not Susan Parans, though. Parans apparently had a similar encounter with Blake shortly before I arrived here from Furthing.
The session ended with a rebuttal from Meristan, however, who said that Blake only gets hot-headed under stress and that he never initiates retaliation.
And so came the vote. Despite all the arguments from "Team Blake," the attending Caucus Members voted in a majority Blake to be in violation.
"It's a razor-thin majority though," Jon Hogan told me later. "They might not do anything."
Tomorrow, Bookkeeper Mersk prescribes the punishment, and the Caucus votes for approval.