day two - aftermath

[guestcontrol]

dreamland day two 38 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 veers off to the left, through a courtroom, where a towering cartoon judge threatens to bang a gavel. Your car jerks and evades, but somewhere, before one car can pass, the gavel comes down and the car spins off to the side, through a dark doorway. Each car comes to the end of the ride, but doesn't stop, and instead jerks into motion and, even faster, veers through the ride a second time. This time, your car does not enter the courtroom, but the doors to your left nonetheless open, showing instead of a courtroom a red room burning with cartoon flames. Above the flames hangs a corpse in a noose. The body of Levi hangs from a white rope noose, as a cackling voices pronounces: Innocent The ride turns away once more, and comes to a stop. A list of votes has been pinned on 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 graveyard 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

[jingler]

[K watches Sigma hit the door a couple times, but then goes up to him and puts a firm hand on a shoulder.]

Enough Sigma. There's nothing you can do now.

[siggey]

...I know.

[My nails aren't long, but I feel them digging into my palm anyway. ]

But another death is still another death. It didn't have to happen! Now we're really the same as the VIPs!

[jingler]

...Perhaps we are. So what of it?

[He takes his hand off Sigma and straightens up.]

Death is death Sigma. Tell me, would it really be okay if we killed a VIP? We can say it would be, but the fact is we would still have killed someone. People would still be dead. Levi acted foolishly and he received his final reward for arrogance.

[siggey]

[ I can stand on my own, I just needed a moment.

I turn to face K sternly. ]

I wouldn't be happier if a VIP is hanging. I don't care about this game, I'm actually pretty pissed that they're saying he's 'innocent'. Innocent from WHAT? The VIPs can be blackmailed too, forced to kill with serious leverage that regular guests don't know about.

He wasn't arrogant, K. Levi knew the risks he was running when he spoke up. You're just pressing down your own impressions with that claim. He did what he could, what he thought was right. If you can't try to understand why someone did what they did, you shouldn't be judging them, much less dismiss their death like this is some sort of normal outcome.

[jingler]

No, Sigma, you're wrong. He was arrogant. He thought he could pretend to be the detective and lead a lynch against Legion, claiming he was the one who wrote that letter.

I understand what his plan was Sigma: he wanted to hide the identity of the true detective by pretending to be them...however such a plan would only work if he had the consent of the real detective. Clearly he did not and this is what happened. At the time there was no reason to think he was anything but a VIP.

Levi acted with arrogance and he died for it.

[siggey]

And how's he going to get that consent, with the real detective still laying low? He may not have made a good choice, but he made one and gave it his all to back it up. If the tip about Legion turned out to be false, he would be the one to get the heat for it, something he had no reason to risk as a regular guest himself.

Levi still went for it. I don't agree with what he did, for the record. He wanted things to move, but his idea of doing that was to push for a lynch.

...

I guess he got what he wanted, in the end. But that still gives you no right to mock his death, no matter how ready he was to accept it.

[jingler]

Yes push for a lynch. A lynch that might have made someone else die because he had no idea what Legion's alignment truly was.

I don't mock Levi for what happened to him, but I do not feel compassion or sympathy toward it. Levi acted foolishly and foolishness has brought his end. That is all there is to say on it.

[siggey]

...Fine, see it as you will. I'd rather strain my compassion and try to understand their reasoning, than trade in my humanity and play along like another pawn. People are still dying, VIP or regular guests, and the faster we come to trivialize the deaths as the victim's own fault, the quicker we lose sight of the big picture and of the bastard that's started this "game" in the first place.