TEAM B

[hootheart]

Welcome to the spooky set, the headquarters of Team Inglorious Besties! Surely everyone will be able to work together to make it out of her alive and with fabulous prizes!

Other Notes:
-Tiera has dragged a cardboard box onto the higher level and has padded it with a variety of scarves and jackets. She also has several stick-shaped props stuffed in to keep the shape of her "nest."

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DAY 3

[hootheart]

[Okuyasu do you have something to share with the class]

[talktothestand]

Alright, guys. Aoi from E is proposing a voting board to Haru.

We had a voting board, last round. Zelda had lists of who everyone voted for.

The list was ok in the sense that we can have the process of elimination of who didn't keep their promise of voting for that person. But it also was bad in the sense that it left people vulnerable to a chance of getting sent to the Hotel like Niles did by some bastard in the last round. Some people still died because someone lied ad didn't keep their word.

I dunno how you guys feel about your vote possibly not being all that anonymous to someone, so I wanted to run this by ya.

[hootheart]

Tiera no vote yet. But think fine. If see betray, then know who enemy.

[talktothestand]

It does give us the chance to see who didn't stick to their promise to vote for the person. That's all I like about it, really. Eventually, someone's gonna betray someone and that's gonna worry me.

This kid named Mary was very betrayed like that. That's why I'm worried if the voting board comes back.

Aoi had convinced his friend Junpei to vote for Mary because Aoi couldn't vote for Mary, himself. So when the voting results came... Guess who died? Mary. Because Junpei changed his mind and used his vote to send Corrin to the hotel, instead.

[hootheart]

[Tiera narrows her eyes at the comment about a "kid," and Twin sits up, the flames on his back flaring up a bit.]

Junpei kill chick? What Aoi do?

[talktothestand]

I didn't talk to Aoi much last round... So I'm afraid I don't know the whole story, but Mary's friend, Ib, had won the game as the final five survivors.

Her grand prize resurrected Mary. But I saw Mary look so scared of Aoi when he tried to approach her... called him a liar over and over. It was kinda sad to watch. Looked like Aoi really promised to find a vote for her.

[hootheart]

Understand. If Aoi tell everyone vote board, then tell everyone Aoi kill Mary? Warn everyone Aoi chick-killer.

[promisedyou]

I don't really mind it that much, but while it does give process of elimination... I should also mention that it does make those who end up on the losing teams a lot more vulnerable to getting sent to the hotel. And even more than that, if someone overheard this, it's possible that someone can easily lie to the people who the ones who proposed the idea, say that they'll vote for them, and then [ she makes a killing gesture to her throat ] get them easily killed. It's a double edged sword, in my opinion.

[lefthandpath]

[lifts his hand a bit]

That's what I was going to say, essentially.

It's no offense to others, but while I can say there's some mutual understanding among our team, I can't really the same about the others in this game. I think that's probably why these hosts have us on teams in the first place.

[also false senses of security, that too]

[promisedyou]

I think so, too. Like the moment someone starts that board up, it's already essentially a trap. Sure, you'll be able to figure out the culprit... but by that point? They'll already have gotten what they wanted out of it. Especially if they time it correctly.

[lefthandpath]

The issue is if they get enough people to follow along with it. If we're outnumbered, no matter how well we're doing in the minigames, we'll still end up picked off.

So we'll need to start voicing our concerns early.

[promisedyou]

That's true. Since winning teams can vote for anyone, after all... I wonder if we can bring that up to them, though. That is, if they'll listen to us.

[lefthandpath]

Well... I'm not someone who will be seen as "unsuspicious" but maybe someone with more connections?

[promisedyou]

Aoi and I share common ground, so I might be able to take a shot at talking to him. I can't guarantee anything, but I can at least share that much. If anybody else wants to talk to the others and knows them better... I don't mind. But I won't force anyone to do it, either.

[talktothestand]

You're a trustworthy guy, I know your votes would be true on a list. A lot of peoples' were consistent to their promises despite some going against it and changing it at the final minutes of voting.

...So yeah, I'm not entirely against it, but I'm also not gonna be thrilled if Aoi or whoever tries to gather peoples' voting intention, either, if it happens after the results come.

I don't want to call the voting board a false sense of security, because it helped reveal who was dangerous to keep in the game and we'd make a team effort to get rid of them, whether hotel or no vote. Maybe we can still do that. but... I also think it has holes we'll have to prepare for.

[lefthandpath]

Even if I were honest about my votes, it won't matter if someone who would manipulate the board has more support. I don't know anyone in this game. This team is pretty much all I have to help me weather through it aside from my usual way of dealing with things--and you bailed me out the last round despite my lack of participation.

[that gets a bit of a faint smile because yeah, Okuyasu's a good.]

Since that's the case, I'm not the best candidate to talk to people to convince them to continue to question ideas. Not necessarily discredit them, but for them to understand it's been done before. A lot of people probably aren't from the last round, so they probably don't know.

My concern is largely those people are the ones that'll be taken in by the problems of it. We're fortunate to have you here to tell us otherwise, honestly.

[talktothestand]

It's not all bad but it's a bit of a weak security blanket, to me. And a double-edge sword, I gotta agree. I don't want to say 'let's just not lose' but... I also feel like we gotta keep up the pace to avoid that situation?

I trust you guys that your votes would be true to the end. But yeah, who is to say that the board won't give someone a easy-picking list of who to send to the hotel...

We'll have to make a team effort to go after whoever betrays someone or sends someone to the hotel.

[promisedyou]

I definitely wouldn't lie about my votes. I have no reason to, after all. [ Shion just shrugs. ] But exactly. And we don't even know how many votes everyone's going to be getting after this round is over, so someone might die anyway! Of course I don't mind going after someone who's essentially a killer in that case, although they might not even care at that point, you know? Because they're aware that they're making themselves a target by pointing their vote in a completely different direction than what they've said outright.

[quadjumps]

On one hand? I wanna know who the traitors are so they don't get jack shit by the time this round ends.

On the other hand, we can't form a strategy around our votes, either, and people might get back at us if we're sending their teammates to the hotel. Take that guy, Kokichi or whatever his name was. How pissed off do you think his teammates might've been that we sent one of their own to the hotel if they knew it was us?

[kayssistant]

I don't mind my vote being not anonymous, myself.

But I get what everyone else is saying - not everyone's gonna agree with our strategies, and it's no guarantee that votes are in order.

In the first round, everyone just chose to vote for a person they'd send to the hotel. They were supposed to send me along with someone else because there was an even number of votes, but the catch? The person with the second highest number of votes is killed.

...You can probably guess what happened then.

[hootheart]

One betray. One wrong vote. One more die.

[lefthandpath]

That does sound like something these hosts would pull, too.