Warden's Tower Riot

The **Warden's Tower Riot** occured on September 22nd, 2022. It involved Akihiko Kotohara, Akio Osamu, Alberto Garza, Jasper Gonzalo, Rochielle Shirakawa, and Takeo Yagami fighting against the Elite Team and a group of guards.

## Context

Kotohara had been placed into solitary confinement in the Warden's Tower by Seargent Stokes. Very soon after, Frederick Jong-hyun Hobson, Alberto, and Yagami entered the Warden's Tower. They saw the condition of the solitary conefinement (white room torture), which the Elite Team acknowledged and explained. The group broke Kotohara out, triggering the alarm in the process. This prompted the Elite Team to approach and the riot to start

## The Event

The prison was placed into lockdown due to the solitary confinement breakout. Most students were placed into their cells, but Rocielle heard about the reason for the lockdown. She knocked out her teacher and ran to help the efforts of the inmates.

Kotohara, Alberto, Frederick, and Yagami attempted to escape the Warden's Tower with Akio, but were apprehended by the Elite Team. The Elite Team threw tear gas at them right as Rocielle approached. The inmates ran as the Elite Team issued a 'shoot to kill' command. Akio, Frederick and Elite Team shot but failed to kill anybody, while Alberto and Rocielle tried to avoid getting shot.

After a while, the Elite Team chased the inmates and Rocielle fired a warning shot near the Elite Team. Alberto picked her up and ran away with her, along with Kotohara. Jasper announced that he would stay behind to stall the Elite Team and shot at them. Akio pulled Yagami and Kotohara away, despite the latter's confusion about Jasper's startegy. Rocielle tried to shoot a gun out of a guard's hand, but missed. The Elite Team threw Jasper into a wall and arrested him, and Rocielle was about to be arrested as well. She made a desperate attempt to shoot at the guards while commanding them not to kill her. Akio tackled her and ran to the main hall with the other inmates. She asked Akio why the guards were shooting and he said, “We broke Akihiko out of solitary confinement.” To this, she questioned why it justified murdering them all, and he commented that the people in charge are crazy.

When the inmates entered the main hall, they were apprehended by more guards. Officer Zachary Davis ordered the inmates to drop their weapons and raise their hands. Rocielle refused to comply due to fearing being killed if she did. She fired a warning shot near the guards and ordered them to go away, saying that the guards will not be killing the inmates. This caused Zachary to fire his Taser at her and she dropped her gun. However, she believed that Zachary planned to kill her while she was incapacitated, so she thought about her suspected death. The guards fired Tasers at the other inmates and arrested all of them, which suprised Rocielle.

The inmates were thrown into the common room, with Rocielle injuring her arm as she fell. The effects of having a Taser fired at her wore off enough to move, so she commented about her survival and asked where her gun was. Akio told her that the guards took the guns, and that if the inmates were taken to the Warden they would all be put on death row. Rocielle found herself unable to slip her hands out of her handcuffs, despite her small size. Akio dug through his pockets and found a lockpick, which he used to free himself from his handcuffs. He gave Rocielle the lockpick, and she successfully freed herself after several attempts. Akio removed everyone else's handcuffs, so they ran to their cells. Rocielle entered her cell only to check on her teacher, before she entered the underground fight club and decided to try an escape.

## Effects on Characters

### Akihiko Kotohara and Takeo Yagami

Akihiko and Takeo both have became slightly more pessimistic and bitter. This was due to Jasper's plan of allowing himself to be arrested to help the others escape.

### Akio Osamu

Since the riot, Akio had become more mischievious and playful.

### Rocielle Shirakawa

Due to the events of the riot, Rocielle planned to break as many inmates out as possible. She saw every inmate's life, including her own, as being in danger so long as they remained in the prison. She also gave Zachary the nickname 'McKenzie' for future reference.

She brought up the riot again on two occasions while she was alive. The first was when she warned Irene Kawasaki and Elijah about Zachary and the guards in general. She was trying to convince them to join her efforts in escaping, but they both declined.

The second time Rocielle referenced the riot was when she sleeptalked in the library after talking to Alberto. She accused Zachary, as well as a generic group, of trying to kill her. She likely believed she was in a fight with them, since she told Zachary to get off her and the group to get away. The sleep disturbance ended with Rocielle tensing up, implying that she was recalling being hit with a Taser.