day one - afternoon

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dreamland day one 41 players remaining. [As the day wears on into the afternoon, the dead aren't getting any deader. It's late in the afternoon, and the air is beginning to cool, when the chimes play again over the park loudspeaker. "All of us here at Dreamland wish you luck, guests! Let's meet up in the Hall of Mirrors!" Wherever you are, it's time to make your way over to the House of Horrors, where you'll have to brave the funhouse to find the room on the top floor. Don't delay, or your guest identification bracelet will begin beeping. The House of Mirrors is a large room, more than capable of fitting a crowd. Tall mirrors line every wall, and the door you entered through seems to vanish into a mirror as well. The mirrors give the impression that many, many more are among your number, standing in the background. In the back is a jar filled with blank raffle tickets. You'll have to take a ticket, write down a name, and place it back in the jar. Hopefully you already know who you're voting for, but if not, you only have time for a brief discussion before you're out of time. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard Voting will close at 10 PM EST on Sept 24. Voting

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DISCUSSION ABOUT THE NOTE

[eventhandler]

[Mirrors, huh? It's a little distracting, but Royce ignores them. There are serious matters to attend to now.]

Now, before we begin, we must...well. Discuss a certain subject. That is, the note naming Legion as a VIP that was...printed, written, in today's newspaper, courtesy of Aya.

[He nods in her direction.]

...What is everyone's opinions on this? Do we believe that this is from the real, bonafide detective...? Or that this is a farce of some kind, some joke, written to specially distract us...?

What does everyone think?

[fanbase]

It's gotta be a big hoax. I mean, it's our second day here, it's way too early to tell if it's the truth or not.

If the detective really wanted us to believe it, they would have tried harder to really let us know or at least figure out another way to get that across.

[poyoyon]

Ibuki agrees!! Besides, Legion-chan spent a bunch of time with Ibuki making comics, and agreed to paint her nails. Legion-chan is definitely innocent!

[ why would you agree to paint someone's nails if you were going to brutally murder them? ]

And he let us stick stickers to him!

[5_9]

We cannot confirm its origin. But we are not a VIP. If the Detective would give out false information, their position is compromised regardless.

[jingler]

My curiosity is less in who wrote the note and more in why choose Legion and then why give it to Aya. Legion and I spoke on this and he offered up the possible explanation that he is an easy target because he's a machine and not a full human.

[ionicwoman]

Right. I seriously doubt the detective would get such a good clue on the first day. Whoever it is, they're probably just trying to take out poor Legion because he's some kind of fontech geth machine...

[glasshole]

Ah. I was wondering the same. Without intending any offense, Legion wouldn't be the obvious choice for detective to me.

But if someone were trying to push a vote, that logic might persuade some of us. It's rather callous, of course...

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[ionicwoman]

[This hall of mirrors is seriously creepy, Anise keeps looking around] What kind of weirdo came up with this?

[ionicwoman]

It's gotta be a fake. It's really shady.

[shoutoku_administrator]

Allow me to present a theory, if you will.

The VIPs, in their discussion, realize that the detective, once they have enough information, would find a way to distribute it anonymously. In order to cut this off, they do this on their own - by giving an anonymous tip that ends in the execution of an innocent, the entire group is soured on the possibility of a reliable, anonymous detective. From that moment on, the detective must come forward in the open to be trusted at all, and in doing so become a target for their enemies.

Something along those lines, at least, is a possibility.

[glasshole]

Hmm. I had suspected something like that, but...

But wouldn't drawing the detective out be quite risky,'? After all, we have the medical team.

[royalizing]

But they could do the same thing! If the anonymous note was truly left by a VIP, then why did the detective not leave their own to dispute it?

[glasshole]

Well...

It's certainly possible. On the one hand, there are seven VIPs out of 41 choices for the detective. Choosing correctly on the first night would be quite the lucky pick. On the other hand, if the detective did make a lucky pick, I'm sure he or she would he motivated to let us know as quickly as possible.

[fanbase]

But with just a note? I don't know, that seems really fishy to me. I find it hard to believe that's the only way the detective can let us know.

[chainjailer]

Legion is the most suspicious one here... [Kurapika merely folds his arms.]

If I were going to ask for a guest's alinement, I likely would have picked him first too. Still, anybody could have written that note.

[chainjailer]

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: the rules state a detective will be told the alinement of a guest. Guest or special guest.

Pinning Legion as a VIP in particular contradicts this.

[poyoyon]

Eh??? You mean that if they get "special guest", it could be one of our people OR one of the VIPs?! Isn't that overly complex?!

[billows]

But the rules list all the other roles under "Jobs for Guests." Surely they would come up as guests?

[photoshot]

If it's real, the detective must be incredibly lucky to have identified a VIP on their first night. If it's false, the VIP are playing quite aggressively to cast suspicion like this.

I'll be taking notes on everyone's reasoning, so don't mind me~ [ also, taking pix. as usual. ]

[jingler]

Aya, I want to ask you a question regarding that note. Why do you think someone would give it to you specifically, out of everyone here?

[dotdotdotstare]

[Mori just shakes his head.]

[billows]

I think it's a little strange that the VIPs could have planned something like this out so quickly. I mean, without the clue toward Legion, who would we decide to vote for? No one, probably. It would have been more beneficial to let us flounder without any clue at all.

[ineptus]

I really don't think it's real, personally, but we need decisive evidence before we decide either way!

[sparklyrichbastard]

I think it's suspicious.

Let's look at it this way: If you were a detective, who would you choose to look into on the first night? There are a lot of us here and we've all just had a major shock, so it would be incredibly difficult to tell if anyone was acting suspicious yesterday.

If it were me, I'd pick someone I liked, someone I didn't know well but wanted to trust. And in that case, isn't it a little cruel to out them anonymously and immediately, before you even knew if they'd killed anybody?

[terci]

Personally, I find it pretty suspicious, no matter what way I look at it. But I've got a few theories about it, myself!

[He starts counting off on his hand]

One: The note was sent by VIPs, wanting to make everyone lynch Legion so they could kill two innocents in one day. There's seven of them versus thirty-five of us, of course they'd want to knock our number down as quick as possible.

Two: The note was sent by the actual detective. Which I still find hard to believe, but there's no real way to prove that it's not true.

Three: The note was sent by a normal guest or maybe even by the guy who's running this entire thing, to make everyone confused and make the game more interesting? [Which is a theory that makes him grossed out tbh]

And finally, my last theory is that it was written by Aya herself. No one's brought it up yet I think, but I think she could've done it to make her "newspaper" catch the eye of everyone else! [Using air quotes while he said the word "newspaper".]

I'd like to hear everyone's opinions on these theories though. And if you have any clues or information about anything, don't hesitate to speak up!