nuzzling into Jesse more. [...] held the sleeping fox a bit tighter.
Jesse stirred with a bleary mumble.
"Fuck. Can't even get any fuckin' peace from this shit in my sleep. Not only am I still bone-tired, but I'm somehow aware of
everythin' said and done while I was out. Speakin' of which, Lee, I don't recall sayin' you could do that. Which ain't to say I wouldn't've, but still. Boundaries, fella."
Jesse rolled off the couch and to his feet, claws clacking on the floor.
"Got some major shit to respond to, and I feel like I'm about to pass out again. Let's just check my fuckin' boards..."
Name | Notes | Name | Notes | Name | Notes |
Jesse | Yours truly. Anything I could say about myself in this analysis is biased, but let it be on record that I suggested voting for Nickit to provoke a debut dialogue, and now Tabitha and Nilam to demand defences, but otherwise to skip. My power is non-info, and potentially a liability if used with insufficient info. | Darkwhite | Plenty of thoughts to offer, but couched in layers of mischief. Tried a hypothetical advice gambit to conceal her night-skipping power, but demonstrated it to the advantage of innocents. Has only skipped, but now seeks to vote Mia. | Mia | Fixated on details that don't add up and non-rational takes, strongly doubted Lee's power, voted for Darkwhite before walking it back and skipping as she did on day one. Now voting Nocitlalin for obfuscating their lack of helpfulness despite them claiming they would prove their innocence tomorrow. |
Mewtwo | Experimentally voted for Palkia before dying early. My sympathies to the sorry bastard. | Nilam | Our keenest voter, never skipping, voted first for Palkia and twice now for Mia. Concerned with an aggressive pursuit of a successful lynch. | Nickit | Dead silent to date. No change forecast. |
Lee | Always has thoughts to offer. Is the only info-provider to come forward so far, clearing Darkwhite and Palkia of Squirt's murder, and furred guests of Mewtwo's murder. Has usually skipped, but now claims he will vote with me. Allegedly can interrogate the dead for a single moment each night. | Gen | Terrified out of his wits at all times, no investigative efforts to speak of. Always votes to skip. Seems authentic enough, but I want to see him offer some info in good faith. | Tabitha | Has mostly criticised tactically unsound assumptions about behaviour, initially skipped but later voted for Darkwhite in pursuit of information and Nilam to follow my bandwagon. Claims to have a night power. |
Palkia | Extensive analysis, seemingly in good faith, attempted a bandwagon-provocation gambit against Darkwhite before walking it back, and has consequently only skipped. Now voting for Abigail. Claims to have an entirely underwhelming power. | Abigail | Inherited the power and memories of Vaporeon Blue. Claims to have nothing useful on hand, but to be a potential asset if spared now by means of her alleged power, which I'm hoping she'll clarify the nature of shortly. | Nocitlalin | Aggressively hunted for bingo cards, suggested that daytime voters might be killers, implicating Nilam more than any other living guests. Claims to have proof of innocence, pending one more day. |
"As always, if I ain't got somethin' right, I beg of ya to correct me, sharpish."
Day 2 vote:
- Palkia
- Skip
| Day 2 voters:
- Mewtwo, Nilam
- Gen, Lee, Jesse, Darkwhite
Nocitlalin, Mia, Palkia
| Night 2 murder: Mewtwo |
Day 3 vote:
- Darkwhite
- Mia
- Skip
| Day 3 voters:
- Tabitha
- Nilam
- Lee, Abigail, Gen
Mia, Palkia, Jesse
| Night 3 murder: skipped |
Day 4 vote:
- Mia
- Abigail
- Nilam
- Nocitlalin
| Day 4 voters:
- Nilam
- Palkia
- Jesse, Lee, Tabitha
- Mia
| Night 4 murder: none yet |
"As I said before, I expect folks who've not avidly been pursuin' the truth to start takin' an interest right goddamn now."
LIST OF FUCKING BINGO NUMBERS
- B3, B11
- I23, I28
- N33, N36, N40, N41
- G51, G57
|
"Fuck bingo."
Dead | Cleared by Lee | Not Suspected by Jesse | Suspected by Jesse |
Squirt | Lee | Abigail | Nilam |
Mewtwo | Palkia | Mia | Nocitlalin |
| Darkwhite | | |
| Tabitha | | |
| Nickit | | |
| Gen | | |
| Jesse | | |
"As always, I intend to listen to reasoned arguments. I've updated my suspicions based on some."
“Also switching my vote to Nilam for now.”
"I'll go for Nilam," [...] "Jesse's the one I trust entirely"
"Fellas, do you
agree with what you perceive is my reasonin', or do you just trust my fallible intuition, or have you got yer own motivations? I get mighty twitchy around unsupported votes. I ain't intendin' to take a hit to my credibility 'cause y'all laid the responsibility fer a lynchin' solely at my feet, alright?"
"So, uh, I'm being voted for mildly unclear reasons, if someone could lay any reason not related to me not having fur because there are multiple guests here that's true for, I'd be happy to try and defend myself? Or was I just randomly picked from the guests who don't have fur and aren't otherwise clear, because I can't do much about that really."
"Alright. You're the most aggressive livin' voter, I'm not clear on the reasonin' behind yer votes, you ain't cleared yet by any alleged info powers. Nocitlalin is claiming they can prove themselves, Abigail hasn't had a chance to weigh in, and Mia seems too helpful to be Naughty. What I said to Tabitha is true fer you too, though. I'm pressin' you to make a case fer yerself, not tryin' to corner ya. Honestly, though I don't much sympathise with this idea that we oughtn't to vote fer ya without harder evidence, considerin' ya went in on Palkia night one fer no reason I can tell."
"I think now we can get a little more aggressive."
"We've got more information to work with, we ought to work to make real progress rootin' out our Naughty guests. I've spent a minute researchin' other 'games' like this, and I've learnt that goin' this long without puttin' someone in the dust is
unorthodox and not considered an effective strategy. Although frankly I'm loathe to kill anyone, we do need to prevent the deaths of every goddamn Nice guest."
Did anybody happen to just do something involving me?
"Nope."
I'd already narrowed it down, to two choices,
"You wanna elaborate, pal?"
Will Prove Innocence / Date UnitDesignates Next Solar Cycle
"Okay, fer anyone that missed it, the beldum says they'll prove themselves tomorrow. I say we give them a chance. I'd like to know
how they intend to do that, though."
Why is everyone listening to you when you say dumb stuff like that? [More stuff about Lee's power, y'all heard the same stuff I did.]
"If yer so smart, maybe ya can fuckin' figure it out," snapped Jesse.
He sighed.
"Sorry. I take it back. Look, yer take on Lee made no damn sense to me except as a distraction from real info. Now I reckon you were sincere, in light of all this discussion and yer evident frustration, and I've spent a minute thinkin' about why we differed here. You're aware, through false memories, of
precedent from other games. Right? Well,
I'm aware, from false memories in
my head, that powers here sometimes need clarification and don't work the way you think they do when you read the instruction the first time. Thing is, yer precedent don't matter
that much when this game is clearly different, and this is
three instances I'm aware of now where a power has confused the weilder until new false memories explain it properly. Does that track fer you? 'Cause I sure fuckin' hope it does."
She imagined leaping at the Delphox, arm poised, aiming for his throat. A spurt of hot Fire-type blood on her face, a coppery taste in her mouth. She was hungry.
"And Miss, d'you fuckin' mind not fuckin'
picturin' my fuckin' death? It ain't fuckin' helpin'."
The delphox had a lot of emotional tells for when he was uncomfortable. Pretty much all of them were firing as he said this.
Jesse is very stupid and annoying but he is probably trying and just very bad at it.
The delphox laughed into his palm.
"Just 'cause my approach ain't yer approach in a scenario rife with ulterior motives, double bluffs, and secret information don't mean I'm stupid, Miss. I can tell yer a smart one, but y'ain't
an undifferentiated genius, and ye'd be more persuasive if'n you knew that. Whatever. Thanks fer the vote of confidence."
"I could vote for any of the others. Nilam is at least trying a bit, but Gen and Nocitlalin are here and awake but they haven't said anything useful. Even if they aren't killers, they aren't helping. Gen is just hiding and being timid and reacting to things, which would be easy for anyone to do. He has fur, so if Lee's correct he's a bit less likely. But Nocitlalin is just searching for bingo cards and saying weird meaningless things. That's an easy way to try to seem to be doing things when you really aren't, while trying to gain advantages for yourself."
"Okay, I buy yer reasonin'. I'm
very reluctant to vote fer the beldum when they're claimin' they can prove themselves so soon. If'n they
fail, they're gonna be hard pressed not to get voted for immediately after, right? If I'm wrong, make it clear to me."
"where oh where did you get this from."
"Abigail said that she had information from the Vaporeon's memories but it didn't really help because it just corroborated something we already know, so she shouldn't say what it is because it'd give a hint about what she can do."
"Sure seems like the word 'corroboration' implies an info power. Maybe I'm wrong!"
"Uh, could someone please help me write this letter? I don't know what language Pokemon write in-"
"Yeah, son, sure thing. You wanna dictate? I got a decent penman's hand."