Rui couldn’t help it—she burst out laughing. Gruff persona, light hair, with a massive soft spot for cute Pokémon? She could think of someone else just like that…
She shifted Mango from her lap and stood, dusting herself off. “I’m Rui, by the way,” she said between subsiding giggles. “And I don’t know much about what’s going on, but I guess…this is some kind of game where we have to catch the bad guys before they catch us?” She tilted her head as she pondered what had been discussed today. “It sounds like two of them tried to attack people last night, but nobody was hurt. Though I’m not sure why.”
He wasn't quite sure why she was laughing. "The hell is so funny?" he asked accusingly. "Listen, man, we have a
bond. They're the first Possum to let me pet them, that's a
once-in-a-lifetime thing."
He supposed it couldn't be helped. He did it to himself, by cooing like a bitch. But, he couldn't help it, dammit.
Next thing he knew, the girl was introducing herself. She didn't know much, but he guessed he wasn't one to judge. Him and his sleepy ass.
She seemed nice enough, though. Not pesky. And Fry seemed fond of her, and he'd follow Fry into battle if need be. Definitely not like that pest of a mirage from yesterday. Wherever the fuck that thing was...he swore he heard her yelling in the dead of night, but he wrote it off as a dream.
"Mm," he hummed. "Name's Guzma." He darted his eyes around, then pointed a subtle finger at her. "You tell people I was baby talkin', we're throwing hands. Don't care how small ya are. Got it?"
He crossed his arms, then yawned. "Fuck, I'm so
tired."
Fry delightedly allowed his ears to be scratched. Then he briefly explain how this was MangoRui, someone named DawningWinds kept trying to execute people, first someone else named QAZ and the CatBeing named Salem. Possum makes is clear he does not yet concur with this judgement and finds such things inconcrete.
He also points out someone attacked mademoiselle and her buddy, but both survived because they were too strong.
Guzma began to nod to himself. "Okay...big shit I missed. Lets see what we got goin' here." He peered around, and found a flyer taped to a wall. He yanked it down, and then rushed back inside the inn, where he found a cup on pens on the front desk. He uncapped it and began to haphazardly scribble down his dumb thoughts.
He was stupid, but maybe he'd put something together. Let's see...
She cleared her throat. " I know we were all supposed to be assigned a partner. I was partnered with, um, Steven Stone." She said that name in a quieter tone of voice. "We...talked for a bit about what’s happening. I know this game isn’t really started yet, but so far he seems trustworthy to me. So, the rest of you, do any of your partners, um--who's with who, I guess I want to ask?"
[[Okay, Equi claims partners with Steven.]]
[[TL:DR, I was OS-BP and granted my buddy the same protection. Both got shot N0, leading me to believe that there might be two killing factions at play here—however, there are other possibilities for the second shot that shouldn't be discounted even if I find the two anti-town killing factions explanation to be most likely.]]
[[Inke claims OS-BP and that they protected their buddy because they were both shot. Possible scumteam and third party? Two separate acting scumteams?]]
Could there be a loner Bad One and and a group? What were those called? Serial Killers?
[[Yeah we don't know what third parties there are, but that could be one. Could be serial killer in a group of town? Or scum?]]
[[I don’t think we should discard the idea of four mafia, but this is kind of a high number, especially if there’s a serial killer out there somewhere. It’s possible there’s two maf and one serial killer/third party, no? Buddies don’t have to be the same alignment, if I understand Blu’s rules correctly!
Also: what the heck. Both OSBP shot in one night? I know it’s not impossible, but does anyone else think that’s kind of weird? Not saying I don’t trust Inke because I think she’s telling the truth, but it’s a crazy coincidence.]]
[[I don't think Inke said
both OS-BP were shot, just that them and their buddy were shot, and their role as OS-BP protected them. Might be you misreading, but I'm side-eyeing.]]
Fry considered this a moment. What if all three were true? Two bad guy Packs and and One secret Bad Guy? Or as some liked to called it he supposed.... what was it? Two mafia and One serial killer?
[[I agree with this.]]
[[Nah. One pair of scum, and a second pair of scum. It's a little like having a scumteam and an SK in vanilla. As far as I'm concerned, a third party with a buddy is another scumteam. It's my working assumption for now.]]
[[This is...a weird take. We don't know the roles--who's to say a third party's win-con has something to do with a
town win? Effectively not making them scum? Think about it. This is a crazy assumption to make right off the bat in a game where the roles are unknown.]]
[[Fair enough. Although…it’s possible someone is buddies with a third party and doesn’t know it. After all, Blu said people didn’t have to be truthful with their buddies! So we really could have an innocent that’s paired with scum/third party.]]
[[For sure, agree.]]
They wouldn't be allied to each other. It's an elegant possibility, albeit by no means certain. Anyway, if my hypothesis is right, and leaving aside how scum could end up in buddy systems when their scumbuddies die, then scum are incentivised to murder the enemy scumteam, slowing the game down. More like five nights, which sounds about right.]]
[[I guess this is possible, sure. Scumteam against scumteam, but I also see a world where they indeed have to work together. Again
the roles are unknown so there's a lot of assumptions being thrown around here based on literal hypotheticals.]]
[[ ok ok sorry. But hmmmm. Maybe I'm thinking from my own weird perspective, but wouldnt two mafia teams be more going for a standard goal, which is getting rid of us? This isnt counting votes and stuff, because. how do you even predict those, yknow. ]]
[[Yes EXACTLY. But again, on another note, they indeed could be working against each other. I don't think we know enough to say for sure.]]
"But wouldn't the result he same amount of unlikely. It's hard to tell right now at least how many people with helpful powers are in this game. Maybe someone with a power did something, but I'm not sure I'd want them to come out right now. And I don't think there's much point if all we can do is speculate.
"But..." Amy bit her lip, thinking again. "But if there are two people have the ability to shoot people, maybe we have a bunch of healing powers in this game. Already two people who were Bullet-proof have popped up, right in the beginning."
[[This is a good point--if multiple people are out to shoot, there could be multiple healers.
But, when the HELL did anybody say there were two bulletproofs??? All Inke said is that
they were bulletproof and
protected their unnamed buddy.
Again, might be a misread, but I'm SIDEYEING.]]
Fry finishes off a a french fry before contemplating something else. Could a townie have accidentally shot the wrong person?
[[I don't think so. It's really unusual for vigilantes to get to shoot on N0, unless they're oneshot, in which case you'd think they wouldn't waste it.]]
[[Don't know about vigilantes, marked this to look at later. But in a game with unknown roles, I wouldn't doubt it anything.]]
[My role PM said I could win if my buddy system survived to the end, even if a scum player got assigned to us. So, that sounds... different.]]
[[Am inclined to believe this because my PM said something similar.]]
[[Going purely by numbers here and standard ratios of anti-town:town, if there are four anti-town players I feel that 3 Mafia and an SK is more likely than two scum-teams of two/a single four-person scum-team. However, at this point, I feel that we might start wasting time on the numbers over meaningfully scumhunting if we continue down this path.
Also roles being stated to be unknown can imply role-madness, so I don't blame uA for coming to that conclusion.]]
[[I feel like I don't have enough info to confidently agree to four scum, or three scum and an SK (or something similar).
To be fair, a non-scum bubby might try to go for both at once: scumhunt, but make a deal with their partner not to target them directly. (More easily done if the scum is SK). But just thinking from the scum-side it'd be a big risk
[[OOOHHH good point. Buddies don't have to be honest with each other, and likewise, they could collectively go for a buddy win and make a deal to not hunt each other? Seems unlikely (and maybe kinda ballsy) but possible.]]
This makes me kinda angry. I do not appreciate being townread for stuff discussion of roles or meta that ultimately does nothing for solving the game and frankly I'm mildly inclined to scumread you for it but I can't remember if it's just your playstyle or what. My vote's got nowhere better to be though.
Vote: kyeugh
[[???????????????? Linda, WHAT. This makes no damn sense. We'd be better off abstaining vote at the point we're at. I'm having a terrible time parsing "I don't like being townread for talking meta so have a vote." Way haphazard.]]
"i'm serious about that naughty jar thing, by the way," continued sans, gesturing at Mademoiselle. "the late fees for the naughty tax are extremely incremental, so i would suggest paying it as soon as possible."
[[I marked this because I couldn't tell if this was RP flair or some extra mechanism in the game but it made me nervous as hell.]]
This was news to Rui. “Prank calls? What are those? Did someone say that’s a thing?”
[[From the sign-ups]]
THINGS THIS GAME MAY HAVE:
- Third parties
- Roles that can prank call certain players just for the giggles
- Queerplatonic Relationships
- A buddy system
- Alternative winning conditions
- Fun
Thinking about trying to read Jackie, rather than just find holes in their logic, I do not agree with these vibes. One of their posts states that they consider any potential SK/town buddy situation to be effectively a scum team. And if the consider that a scumteam then shouldn't they, realistically, consider any town who's buddies with mafia also mafia aligned. They also pointed out that they could win via buddy victory regardless of buddy's alignment, so they obviously didn't not realize this possibility. Essentially, by their logic, half the game is probably scum. It... almost feels like maybe they're trying to set up a situation to get town to turn on each other, and not even just their scummy members, it feels like maybe they could be trying to create a world where town can't trust their town reads on the grounds of them maybe being scum by buddyship.
I don't remember what if anything Jackie posted before the two scumteam theory so I'mma check back before I change my vote. But I am definitely considering changing my vote now that I've thought about that.
[[I feel like this is a better move than sussing Q for whatever they did. Because yeah, right now Jackie's on my radar/]]
[[Didn't outright claim, but seemed to softclaim, as seen below]]
"U-um, I...I-I don't really know what t-to do, but...um..." Gen hesitated, then continued, "I-I can send m-messages to people i-in certain circumstances."
"I-I...I didn't s-send anything l-last night, b-but I..." he trailed off, trembling badly, clutching tightly onto Kora.
