day three - afternoon

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dreamland day three 34 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 September 30. Voting

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[unbridledjoy]

There is one thing that I do not understand... They must have known that we would most likely not go another day without choosing someone to execute. It would have been their only guaranteed chance of converting someone... why choose a dog?

Your explanation makes sense if we assume that they converted Missile, but it does not explain why they chose him out of everyone else to convert. Is it not more likely that Missile merely did not know how to communicate with us right away, and when he tried to tell us that Levi was not the detective, we all assumed that he was a VIP and executed him?

[cakelover]

To be fair, if it was their only chance and they knew that...they would have done best by picking the least likely conversion target, right?

[ Who would think to protect a dog. ]

[unbridledjoy]

No. Because, at the time, we did not know how capable Missile was. Perhaps no one would have thought to protect him, but they did not know he could be used, either. They would have done best by picking the least likely target that they could communicate with.

[cakelover]

I don't know if I entirely agree...in the end, for them, at the very basics it's a numbers game, ne? I don't think we can discount the possibility he was converted, although I'm not sure that's what happened. Communication might not have been a big factor in the choice.

[unbridledjoy]

To believe what Edea is saying, though, we must assume many things. We must assume that Missile was converted, we must assume that one of the VIPs was able to train him, we must assume that such training could occur overnight, we must assume that he was capable of carrying out such a complicated and malicious plot, and we must assume that Edea is entirely innocent and that the VIPs are trying to frame her.

To believe what we already believed, all we must assume is that Missile did not understand everything that was happening before, and that he acted after Gundam Tanaka explained the situation to him.

One of these options seems much more likely to me.

[cakelover]

Ah...perhaps, but I wonder why Edea was not pointed out as a target yesterday, and we were permitted to hang Levi.

[ That's the part that's giving him pause. ]

[unbridledjoy]

I think that was because... Missile did not understand everything at that point. All he knew was that Levi was claiming to be the detective, but he was not. So he tried to tell us that.

We are the ones who chose to vote for him.

[cakelover]

I...really don't want to vote for an innocent again. We were very sure about Levi-chan, in part because of Missile-chan. Will Edea-chan hang there innocent, as well, if we vote for her today? I realized we can never be certain, but...taking a chance like that, without considering the alternatives...if we had talked it over more last time, if we hadn't simply listened to Missile-chan and nothing else...

[ Not that he ever really spoke to Levi, but. They...definitely voted the guy dead. Based mostly on Missile. ]

[unbridledjoy]

The difference now is that we have found a more certain way of communicating with Missile. We were very, very angry with Levi because he turned out to be lying. But that is not the case here. Now, Missile has found a way of telling us the things we need to know, and the person he has accused has spun a tale that relies on a lot of assumptions to defend herself.

The more I think about Edea's theory, the more confused I get. The truth is not something we should have to keep asking "Why?" or "What about this?" over... so when a story makes me ask as many questions as this one does, it makes me very suspicious.

[cakelover]

Levi also tried to defend himself, and we did not listen. That's the reason I'm...trying to consider the defense.

[unbridledjoy]

That makes sense... I do not blame you for that. I do not think anyone else would, either.

[She tries to smile a little, though it isn't quite as bright as she would like.] It is only after considering it that I decided it did not make sense. If it takes you longer to decide or you decide it does make sense, that is alright. It would be very lonely for no one to believe her at all, I think...

[cakelover]

[ He NEVER QUESTIONED LEVI WAS SHADY, so Honey is trying to actually do that today, as Starfire has understood by now. Not lynch someone who could be innocent today, yes. Which means considering the arguments the whole time until he's convinced. ]

No matter the guilt or innocence of anyone we vote for today, we do owe them that much, yes.

[ More, probably. They're killing people just as surely as the VIPs are. ]

[unbridledjoy]

...We must remember them.

I would like to try to save them, but when they killed, they stepped over the line. When they killed a child, they leaped far beyond it.

We will have to execute people ourselves, but that is because we must survive. This is not a game... it is a war.

When we win it... then we can look at their reasons for why they did what they did. But if we worry about it too much now, we will be defeated.

[cakelover]

As it is, I...can't think of any reason for any of this at all, ne?

[ Not a single death has made sense. Not really. And should...deaths ever really make sense...? ]

[unbridledjoy]

...I have tried to, but I have not succeeded.

[edealistical]

It isn't more likely, because at 10 o'clock in the morning, Missile sent K and Aya pictures to condemn Levi and myself. At that time, he already knew Levi was an imposter and was acting upon it. He then waited until late in the trial to openly denounce Levi. I cannot explain how this makes sense unless another factor was involved.

My explanation for 'why Missile' is that he would be the one person above suspicion, as I said. If you can't accept that, I potentially have others.

[unbridledjoy]

At the beginning of the trial, we were all convinced that we should vote for Legion, were we not? Or... I think that most of us were. If there was really a group of VIPs wanting to do what you said and protect Legion, they would have instructed Missile to openly denounce him much sooner. They were slicing it very close [the phrase is "cutting it very close," Star] to make him wait so long.

I believe that he waited because he thought that delivering the pictures was all he needed to do, and it was not until later on that he understood that we weren't understanding what he was trying to say.

After all, he was... not trying to tell us that Levi was a VIP. He was just trying to tell us that he was not the detective. We decided to execute him.

[edealistical]

((Same argument is happening in our other thread, I think, so I'll let it play out there!))

[dotdotdotstare]

[Unlike his cousin, Mori is nodding along with this.]

The detective would want to stay hidden. He tried to communicate secretly.... But it didn't work.

[That was what they had thought from the beginning. Unfortunately for Missile, the point wasn't understood until he revealed himself.]

[unbridledjoy]

Yes. Innocent people paid a terrible price for it, but I do not think that Missile was trying to hurt anyone. He just did not know how to tell us...

[dotdotdotstare]

Yeah.

[he believes in that dog B|]