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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[shoutoku_administrator]

Edea has made her argument, and made it well. Now, allow me to respond with my own.

To summarize briefly, the heart of Edea's reasoning is thus: If Missile truly was the detective, then he had plenty of chances to oppose Levi before the second trial - most notably, when he made himself known after the first one. As a diligent dog, it stands to reason that he would have spoken up immediately, rather than waiting until Levi began to speak on the second day. Everything follows this single point, so that is what I shall address.

Some of you may have seen me with a pair of earmuffs from time to time - this is because my ears is extremely sensitive. In my day, I could listen to ten conversations at once, and understand them all. My profile on your bracelets will confirm that my hearing is superb.

Furthermore, Missile is not a subtle creature by nature. Any time he is near, I am aware of it. That dog is not capable of being anywhere near me without me knowing about it.

The point I am coming towards is that I am certain, beyond all doubt, of one thing: When Levi declared himself to be the detective, Missile wasn't there.

If any of you recall otherwise, please come forward. Until then, my argument is this: Missile did not fight Levi because Missile did not know that Levi had claimed Detective. Levi died because we misinterpreted Missile's warning that he was not the detective as a warning that he was a VIP.

[godwhisperer]

[...Pleased.]

I can confirm that the morning after the night of conversion, I did explain to Missile the events of the evening prior. I explained Levi had claimed to be the detective.

[belgian]

You're right--I didn't see Missile around when Levi was claiming to be the detective that night.

[edealistical]

[Objection!]

That's not the crux of my argument. It simply makes it stronger.

If what you say is true, then explain Missile's actions when he did find out Levi was detective. He is not a subtle animal you say - but the fact remains that he chose to plant clues early in the morning to accuse Levi of wrongdoing rather than confront him and then waited another 8 hours to do anything in the open! Under the premise that 'Missile was an unconverted Detective', what he did defies logic.

And please don't say he couldn't find Levi; he's a dog.

[mediumburgers]

[ Hold it right there! ]

Even if he could find Levi, he couldn't necessarily gather us all-- which is what he needed, right? He needed to tell us all about it and waited until we were gathered at the discussion!

[edealistical]

If Missile didn't know until breakfast - then we were all basically already gathered in one place. We're locked into the dorms for about an hour, remember?

[mediumburgers]

[ Opens mouth... closes mouth. ]

Maybe he... forgot...?

[unbridledjoy]

I think that he thought that delivering the pictures was all he had to do.

It wasn't until the trial that it became obvious that we still believed in Levi.

[mediumburgers]

Oooh, that makes more sense! I mean, as clever as he is he probably didn't realize we needed a bigger shove in the right direction than just pictures.

[edealistical]

...




Um.

Is there anyone else with an objection?

[belgian]

Maybe he decided to only send the pictures to try and remain anonymous? [As anonymous as he could be, given his manner of getting information across.]

[mediumburgers]

[ STICKS OUT TONGUE ]

[fanbase]

Nui said Edea was the one who started yelling at Malik when he threatened to cut off Missile's paw too and now it sounds like she's suddenly against him. Or at least, eager to point him out as the convert.

I don't know if that's a coincidence or what, but her argument's not winning me over at all.

[poyoyon]

Ibuki's really confused about what arguments are even being made...Hajime-chan explains his arguments a lot better!!

[ protag where art thou ]

[mediumburgers]

Even Nick explains his arguments better, and he mostly just makes things up...

[poyoyon]

If someone said something like "I'll cut through that argument", Ibuki'd feel a lot better about it...

[mediumburgers]

I never knew how helpful people yelling "objection!" was until now... It makes it a lot clearer who's arguing with who about what!

[fanbase]

[ She is gladly pleased to be able to explain this to Ibuki! ]

I think Edea is saying that Missile is a convert since nobody would wanna kill him since he's a dog, but that he was also previously the detective. Which is weird, because he didn't say anything when Levi claimed to be detective. Miko's saying Missile wasn't here to hear Levi's claim, so he wouldn't have been able to disagree with it until he heard someone saying that. We thought that Levi was a VIP, but Missile's just a dog so... we weren't able to understand that he was saying that he's innocent, just not a detective.

When Malik threatened Missile, Nui claimed that it didn't sit well with Edea. Which seems a little weird because... now it looks like she's ready to say he might be a VIP.

[poyoyon]

[ CLASH, YOU'RE SO SMART. Or at least the condensed version is a lot easier to follow than Edea's was, since Ibuki bluescreened from confusion for most of it. Too...too many words, not enough helpful pictures and accusations from Hajime-chan. ]

So Clash-chan's voting for Edea-chan?

[fanbase]

[ She chews on her lip in contemplation. ]

When you stand up for someone, you're supposed to stick with that until then end, right? It's like bandmates... you stick together no matter what because you're a part of that group. I know it's hard to trust people here, but she stood up for him and now she's saying that he might be a VIP. It just doesn't seem right to me.

[poyoyon]

Gundam-chan wouldn't train anything for this sort of game.

[ Not that he was ever specifically targeted as such, but... ]

Ibuki...agrees that you have to stick with people until the end! No matter what. It's kinda hard here, but even so...everyone has to do everything they can, right? That's part of what Clash-chan means.

[edealistical]

It's... not coincidence that I'm rejecting an accusation that means I'll die, no. What in the world did you think I would do? Nod along and ask to be killed?

[fanbase]

No, I'd do the same thing. It's just... there are a lot of things that don't make sense. You stood up for Missile, didn't you?

[edealistical]

I'm not going to keep standing up for him when he wants me killed!

...If we want to talk about how adorable he is, I'd be happy to do it, but this is really asking too much.

[fanbase]

It's not even that he's a dog. If he were a person, it would be the same thing! You stood up for him and now you're going to throw him under the bus? You're really not going to stick to your word? Or even your loyalty?

[ She sounds confused, maybe even a little worried. It seems Clash can't sit still when it has to do with staying loyal. ]