[newlydead r3] day 4 - spades

[ibedeadpeople]

[The rave set has got its strobe lights traded in for the closest Maya could get to dappled morning sunlight (it is not very close, though it makes up for it with ample lasers), and there's a pile of greasy bun-based hangover remedy breakfast sandwiches and Sunny D in the DJ booth. Maya kind of gently herds folks together for a check-in]

How's everybody doing this morning? Still intact? Got your votes sorted? Any other questions? Concerns? People we need to beat up in a dark alley?

Comments

[digiteyesed]

My votes are for Aoi, Maya and Leo! This voting board idea, also, is not very popular and lots of people are being cagey about their votes. Apparently when it was used last time it went badly? Any of our seniors want to fill me in? Oh, and maybe no dark alleys yet, but I hear Froud on Team F may be a huge creep, so there's that.

[jinglebros]

Let's destroy it.

[ may have changed his mind about the board after a conversation with Corrin, and only hasn't destroyed it himself because he doesn't want to look emotionally imbalanced. ]

[digiteyesed]

[Looks at him like he's emotionally imbalanced]

sadkjsad

[jinglebros]

[ Stares back with an eyebrow raised. ]

Re: sadkjsad

[digiteyesed]

I give up.

[jinglebros]

...someone may have pointed out the error of my ways.

[digiteyesed]

I think it's a better idea to do something than nothing and let people die again. Even if it's not a board, we need some sort of method to know who has spare votes and who is in need. People are apparently really bad at just talking to each other. What exactly happened last time that has everyone so jumpy?

[jinglebros]

I agree that we need to do something. I just don't know if it's a board.

A couple times people used the board to manipulate the votes and go behind each others' backs vote the wrong ways. They voted against the ways they said they were going to so they could make people dead or hotel them.

It didn't happen often, but it did happen. It happened in a huge sweep, in the end - nobody voted the way they send they were going to, and the game ended in a huge bang.

[digiteyesed]

[Ene stares at Aoi for a moment, considering. It doesn't surprise her to hear, and she has to wonder if that's the thing he fell out over with the last Ene. Did he help manipulate the votes? Did he help kill her, or someone she cared about? What was it he said back at the first game?

"Fact: I won this game once before. Secret: it nearly tore me apart to do so."

He said he'd learned from that mistake, but it could be another lie. He might have only changed his mind because his boyfriend got mad at him. Aoi said he wanted to do the board to hold people accountable, not to protect lives. What's he really after here? What is she supposed to trust?

Does it really change anything if she can't trust him anyway?]

One idea I had was, since we know how many votes each team has, just keep track of who gets zero votes and go up to the teams with excess to see who's willing to volunteer to save one or more of them. But really, if someone does want to kill or hotel someone, there's little we can do to stop them.

[jinglebros]

That might be quick and easy. Less likely to get them hostile, anyway. Might be a way to slowly work up to something else, whatever that something else is.

[ He's going to pull Ene aside after this meeting. He wants to talk to her about something. But he can't say it yet. Not in front of the others. ]

[digiteyesed]

We can brainstorm. Maybe someone else will have a bright idea. But for a bunch of people so concerned about the board getting taken advantage of, nobody was offering any alternatives.

[locktouching]

...The board might be useful for now, if we actually hold people accountable for lying about their vote this time.

But when the game is nearing its end, we need to get rid of it.

[ibedeadpeople]

"Hold them accountable"... So, vote them out?

[locktouching]

Probably, or use a pass if we can get one, if we're unable to just let them die.

[jinglebros]

Do the passes actually exist this time?

[locktouching]

Who knows with these hosts. But you know what happened to me last time, and how the man who did it weaseled out of blame.

[jinglebros]

At least we got him in the very end.

[ibedeadpeople]

...What happened? If there're people here who are untrustworthy, you should warn us at least.

[jinglebros]

That guy's not around anymore. Don't worry about it.

[ibedeadpeople]

If you say so...

[jinglebros]

My votes are Rohan and Ene.

Beatrice needs to be beat up in all the dark alleys, fucking please.

[ibedeadpeople]

Aw, don't be mean to her just because she thinks she's a witch! It's hard being otherkin and nobody understands.

[jinglebros]

She told me she'd kill our parents in front of me if her magic wasn't nerfed, so as to prove to me that she has control over my destiny. That she'd bring them back to life if I kneeled in front of her and pledged submission.

[ibedeadpeople]

Uhh. That's a little intense.

[jinglebros]

Apparently that's what she's been doing to Battler this whole time?

[ibedeadpeople]

Killing his parents and bringing them back to life!? No wonder she balked when I asked what their relationship was... Do they know? I'm pretty sure that's a crime!

[jinglebros]

Telling him that sort of shit. I don't know if she's actually been doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised!

[ibedeadpeople]

I'm pretty sure just saying that is a crime, too. Shouldn't his parents want to do something about it? I'd think it'd be off-putting at the very least.

[jinglebros]

We'll have to ask Dad about it. He's here too.

[ibedeadpeople]

Dad?

[jinglebros]

...yes? Did you miss the whole thing where Battler and I are brothers?

[ibedeadpeople]

Yes? Why?

[jinglebros]

Oh, you're asking who the dad is.

Rudolf!

[ibedeadpeople]

...Huh.

[jinglebros]

Huh?

[ibedeadpeople]

Oh, uh, interesting choice, is all. Why'd you pick him?

[jinglebros]

I didn't, he came with the package. Did you pick your dad?

[ibedeadpeople]

[shrugs] Never had one. But if I felt like getting one, there'd definitely be some extreme vetting, first.