day one - aftermath

[guestcontrol]

dreamland day one 41 players remaining. As the voting period comes to an end, a bell goes off from the ticket machine, and the metal bars blocking the tunnel at the end of the Hall of Mirrors lifts. A voice speaks over the loudspeaker: "Attention, guests! Please make your way onto the ride! For your safety, keep your hands and arms inside and do not attempt to leave your seat!" Through the tunnel, single cars on a track stop and wait for each remaining player to step on. Don't dawdle, or your bracelet will begin to beep a warning. Once in a car, the safety bar locks you tightly inside, unable to move. The car trundles along a dark, twisting track, nearly veering into cartoonish obstacles, but veering away at the last moment. Music and cackling laughter echoes loudly through the ride as you drive faster and faster. Suddenly, your car seems about to veer off to the left, through a set of tall doors, before abruptly spinning off to the right. With a powerful jerk, each car comes to the end of the ride. The safety bar lifts, and you can leave. It seems no one was executed tonight, but a list of votes has been pinned to the wall for your perusal. You now have the rest of the evening to explore the park, before night comes again. character statuses private conversations This is a general post-vote mingle encompassing the time from the end of the trial (about 5 PM until the fireworks at 11 PM). You are encouraged and welcome to backtag discussions in this post until the next day post, or to have afternoon private conversations.

Comments

[mediumburgers]

Find them, of course! And convince them to stop.

[perfectstrike]

How?

If we could perhaps discover the motive, we could use it to determine who is a VIP. There is always something that someone could kill for... I am not certain if it will be so easy to simply convince them to stop.

[mediumburgers]

If we could take away whatever's motivating them, that would be a start. But it might be kind of... hard. When we don't even know who's doing this.

[perfectstrike]

We do not know the person, so we cannot know the motivation. We do not know the motivation, so we cannot know the person.

It is impossible to figure out, at this point. We need more information, and a way to get it that can be trusted.

Ultimately, it will come back to trust.

[mediumburgers]

Maybe we could have everyone make a list of what would hypothetically motivate them. And use... that... somehow.

Right now it doesn't seem like anyone trusts anything.

[perfectstrike]

No... but no one yet has reason to trust anyone, except for the fact that we cannot move ahead without trust.

It is the true conundrum of this game.

[After this, murder island is going to seem like a legit vacation.]

[mediumburgers]

It's exactly what that guy wants. For us to either trust everyone else and get betrayed, or not trust anyone and isolate ourselves while getting picked off one by one. There's no surefire answer, is there?

[perfectstrike]

Not yet. With more time, we will be able to discern a better answer. To solve this, and to escape.

I refuse to accept that it is impossible. The VIPs can not succeed.

[mediumburgers]

That's the spirit! Go team not-VIPs! I mean. There's got to be someway out of this mess, that's just a given.

[perfectstrike]

If one is not given to us, then it must be made.

[She's... agreeing with you, Maya. In her own weird Peko way.]