day two

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dreamland day two 40 players remaining. There are no clocks in your dorm room to help you mark the passing of time, but at a certain point, in the early hours of the morning, a cheerful chime tune plays over the loudspeaker. Whether you're awake or asleep, the door to your dorm room is now unlocked. You'll have about a forty five minutes, in which you can get ready or grab some breakfast, before the door that allows you into the park unlocks. By this time, you may or may not have noticed that one of your number is missing. The chimes play again, to announce that the park is open, and the rides and music begin to come back to life as a voice plays over the loudspeaker. "Rise and shine! Let's have a lot of fun today, or at least all of you who are left!" You will have until 4 PM to explore the park and talk amongst yourselves. Somewhere in the park, you'll find the body of Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard Voting will close at 10 PM EST on September 27. Though a special comment for discussion will go up shortly before voting, you are encouraged to discuss who to vote for throughout the day. Voting

Comments

[foetida]

How do you know the detonator's behind this? [She crosses her arms.] If someone who has the key got converted, why did they target Yuya of all people? If I were a killer, I would have gone after that short little idiot who claimed to be the detective.

[photoshot]

Unless Mr. Levi was the convert. I'd hope he'd be smarter than just attack a random target with a valuable weapon like this, though.

[foetida]

I'd hope the detonator would be smart enough not to give someone that suspicious a tool to murder more people with.

[siggey]

Only for the distribution of keys. Some people have been saying maybe the Detonator's working with the VIPs. There's no way for us to know, I don't believe it myself. But the detonator should at least know who they gave the key to, whether or not they choose to share that information.

[ I run a hand through my hair in frustration. ]

Yeah. We don't know if the person who used the key is a VIP or not either. The VIPs should have better targets if they're taking this seriously, but like Clash mentioned before, instead of having to decide as a group, the individual with the key has the agency to choose for their own reasons. Which is why if the detonator can guess, since they should know who they chose to give it to...

[ Assuming it wasn't planned... But I feel ill just considering the possibility. Why...?]

[foetida]

It doesn't make any sense for someone on either side to target Sakaki. There was no reason to suspect that he had an important role or that he was a VIP.

...unless there's someone here who knows something we don't. Who was close to him?

[siggey]

...Actually, there might be one.

[ We're out of options, and whether I like it or not, we have to face the truth. ]

Nowhere in the rules say VIPs must be buddied with VIPs, or regular guests must be paired with regular guests. Hell, can we even say if the Medical Team, Buddy Cops, and Conversion Busters are people from the same buddy group?

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Because if that can actually happen, then there are even higher odds that a VIP can be paired with a regular guest who has a role. So if that guest goes...

[foetida]

[A huff as she puts her hands on her hips.] Are you being deliberately obtuse? If a guest who's partnered with a VIP dies, then the VIP dies too. No one would be stupid enough to kill their own buddy, not unless they were suicidal.

[siggey]

I'm not! I'm just saying that if Levi's claim to be the detective is true, it's possible that he's got a buddy who's a VIP, and that can be the reason why they... got someone else to take the blow. And that while taking out the 7 VIPs is supposed to be the quickest way to end this game, 14 people may actually need to die in total to make that happen.

[ ... ]

The number will keep rising too, with every conversion. In the end, hunting down the VIPs may not be the way to end this game, with as little casualty as possible.

[ineptus]

Is there a way to end it with as little casualty as possible...?

[Sorry for the little girl interrupting, but she's kind of been losing hope in that idea almost by the hour...]

[siggey]

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[ I shouldn't be talking about this with a little girl. The very fact that this is happening is nauseating, and for a moment, I wasn't sure I could answer her at all.]

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Yeah.

Yeah, there is.

[ I repeat myself for my sake, since thinking about it logically, there is a way. ]

Every night, the VIPs decide to kill the same person that the medical team will stay on to protect. That way, there's no deaths in the morning.

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If the Detonator has to give out a key, they should try to always give it to the same person who's not going to use it. We don't know if keys stack, but if it doesn't, then that lowers the risks for everyone too.

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Finally, during trials, we have to keep voting to execute no one. That way, the VIPs will eventually win through conversion, but no one will have to lose their life again.