[[i swear to god if chibi really did die on n1 when they otherwise wouldn't have thanks to swapping shenanigans
again i am going to laugh so hard. the irony of them extolling the virtues of bus drivers while they keep getting accidentally murdered by a bus]]
[[ Miyako and I were having some serious self-confidence issues after yesterday's events. Apparently brain games are not our strength. Tefiren helped alleviate that to a small extent. At least in-character, Miyako's thankful for having it be pointed out; even though it seemed at least to us to be obvious, we'd hadn't made much of an impact on progressive thoughts otherwise, so having someone else at least acknowledge and agree with what little contribution we were able to make was nice. It's a small gesture, but it lifted my spirits, at least. ]]
[[Oh, heh, yeah, maybe I should have made it clearer that *I* understand the sentiment behind you thanking me perfectly fine. (You're welcome!) That bewilderment was a pure in-character Tefiren thing. He really Does Not Get interpersonal relationships for reasons wrapped up in his massive issues (that's also why he almost never remembers anybody else's names), so seeing Miyako try and momentarily connect with him on a personal level that wasn't really about the game itself just made him "
??????" all over the place.]]
[[ This would probably be very amusing. I dunno if you're at all familiar with Persona, but I know we're not familiar with Tefiren's species, so I'd be going into it relatively blind, anyway. Would be funny to see Tefiren's reaction to a giant half-human, half-phoenix suddenly bursting into existence behind the tiny human-with-a-stick! ]]
[[I am actually a big Persona nerd, as it happens! It's possible that a small fraction of my good feeling about Miyako has been influenced by my brain going "Oh, hey, a Persona-user, cool!", which I am trying not to let consciously bias me, but. And man, yes, I have been hoping that at some point Miyako ends up summoning her Persona for some reason, because Tefiren's reaction to seeing her greatest "trick" would be very fun.]]
Dave scratched his chin, frowning. "Yeah. Something I've been thinking about Nefari's claim is that it was really fucking dumb to reveal it right out of the gate."
"See?!" Tefiren piped up as soon as these words were out of the Human's mouth. "The small fox really
is a huge fool! I
said so!"
[[Yeah, sure, Tefiren, just you try and make it sound like you always knew the roleclaim was a bad idea and totally didn't just figure it out today at around the same time Dave did.]]
Still, now Mewtwo considered Achropy's gambit in a new light. Though Mewtwo may question the usefulness of the actual results, they couldn't help but admire the thinking behind such a play. This creature demonstrated much out-of-the-box thinking.
Considering, Mewtwo let their thoughts wander as they drifted back to their den.
Perhaps they could appreciate a person such as this Pokemon.
Tefiren's mind was prodded with the sense of the think-talky one thinking in his direction specifically, about his whole plan from yesterday. It was true that the plan hadn't been all that
successful in the end - not that he was going to admit that out loud, of course - but at least the think-talky one appreciated that it was a clever and cunning idea. Good! So many of the people here didn't even realise
that, like they didn't understand the point of the plan
at all. This think-talky one was smarter than most. Made sense, Tefiren supposed, since he was someone who thought so hard that he could
talk with it.
[[Joke's on you, Tefiren, Mewtwo can definitely hear you thinking about how the plan didn't amount to much even though you're not saying it.]]
[[As with Mewtwo, I'm kind of surprised you considered--even kind of half-hoped--that all of the active players were innocent. For me, it feels like there has to be at least some actively working to pull the wool over our eyes, yes?]]
Eh, I don't think I'm the only one who was getting vaguely good vibes for one reason or another from more or less everyone who was active yesterday? Dave said so too, and Lexx's readpile was pretty close to that. Regardless, it seems like my playstyle leans more towards trying to find people I can
trust, whereas yours is evidently more in the other direction. Accumulating townreads on nearly everyone and then finding the mafia from among the nulls worked well enough to win us last game; I guess time will tell if things end up working out that way in this game too. Still, it's good to have that reason to remind myself that I can't actually
completely trust everyone I'm feeling good about, not until mechanical confirmation comes up.
"Alright, if you say so. I swapped Lexx and Spark, since I thought nobody would be targeting either of them... you can see how well that went. But now, my question is: Why Spark? Who would possibly be targeting her, and why?"
[[ I'm not 100% on that the swapping even played a big part in any of this, but regardless, it did happen, and Chibi did end up getting killed. ]]
"I've already said what I did. Maybe there's another swapper somewhere who messed with others, but for now, I believe that the Mafia were going for Spark originally-- again, I don't know why-- and instead killed Lexx. And as of right now, i can't really say anything about Rascal, because I just don't know anything of what happened there."
Tefiren tilted his head in puzzlement as the thunder cat finally spoke up about who she'd swapped. "You swapped the Human with... who? That weird tiny Raichu?
Not the Tyrunt?"
[[(Before you claimed, I was actually thinking the thing was that you'd swapped Lexx
with Rascal. That would explain the contradiction in the hider/babysitter theory of "the mafia would be way more likely to target Lexx than Rascal, but on the other hand Rascal would be way more likely to babysit Lexx than hide behind him", because it'd have meant both were true. It'd have been a hilariously unfortunate coincidence, but it'd have explained things so well. Alas.)]]
"You're right. It doesn't make any
sense that the Mafia would go for the tiny Raichu. She was just dozing at the back all day yesterday, not even saying anything! And maybe there's some ways it'd still work if they went for the Tyrunt instead, but that doesn't make much sense either; she said
some stuff yesterday, but not much."
Out of the three people involved - the fun Human, the Tyrunt, and the tiny Raichu - the fun Human was the
obvious best target. There was no way it hadn't been him, right? There was no way this Mafia weren't at least smart enough to know that. Was there any way it could work out for him to have been the target anyway, despite the swap? Tefiren racked his brain for any combination of swapping and hiding or babysitting that'd make it work, but he couldn't think of one.
"There has to have been something else going on," he concluded. "Maybe you were blocked, or there's another swapper, or something. They can't have just gone after the tiny Raichu, surely. What'd be the
point?"
[[I just cannot let go of the thought that Lexx
has to have been the mafia's target, because targeting relatively quiet players this early on doesn't make any sense to me. I feel like there's got to be more to this. ...You know, as if this wasn't complicated enough already.]]
