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

[perfectstrike]

[What no she is not Kuzuryuu's pal wHERE WOULD yoU GET THAT IDEA HAHAHAHA laughs into the sunset.]

If we could find proper equipment, it may not be a bad idea...

[Peko no.]

[photonement]

Now that's something we just might win from a carnival game!

[Dangan idiocy synergy activate]

[perfectstrike]

That is not a bad idea.

[There they go. Dangans...]

Though again, I doubt the likeliness of anything truly useful emerging as a prize.

[photonement]

I figure there's gotta be *something* in there if they had an entire rule and all...

[perfectstrike]

But is it something to our benefit? If they saw fit to make an entire rule about it.

[photonement]

You don't think... they put in a bomb or something, do you?

[perfectstrike]

[Dryly,]

Would you find that surprising?

But it may be an item that, won by a VIP, could make our escape even more difficult. Or something more dangerous than it is worth.

It is not without merit. I just believe that the carnival should be watched carefully by a group of more than seven people -- or rather, in the future, more than eight.

[photonement]

Are you sure we could get together a guard crew that big? [it's not without merit either, but...] That's nine people, and some people would wanna take breaks, plus actually play games themselves. Then when you factor in how many people would think they have better things to do or not believe in the prizes at all themselves...

Do you think we could do a sign-up sheet tomorrow, Peko-chan?

[perfectstrike]

There are still more than forty of us here, [she points out, twining a bit of hair around her finger thoughtfully.] So if you would like to make a sign-up sheet, I will not stop you. It may be of merit.

[photonement]

Well, what I really wanna do is spend as much time as possible playing the games - and I only got a couple of people doing that with me today. But if you think it's that bad for there to be so few of us--

[Worse than that, if Peko suspects her for wanting to contnue unhindered.]

[perfectstrike]

I do not mean to suggest the people playing the games cannot also be guards.

But in a situation such as this, we must create trust. That can only be done through observation.