Game 2 - DAY 3

[protoshepherd]

[ After ousting finishes, the bodies of Hans, Gina, York, and Bruce slowly turn into glass, starting from their feet and it works its way up until the glass covers the bodies. A few seconds after looking like a diamond statue, the glass shatters, leaving nothing but the broken pieces on the floor.

THERE CERTAINLY WERE HUMAN BODIES THERE EARLIER. WELL? NOT ANYMORE…!

Right after that, everyone will receive a text saying:

Congratulations on making it to the third day! Please get some rest now, as the game will continue tomorrow.
Had there been no wolf ousted the past two days, you all will be in grave danger as one more mistake would mean the wolves win. Oh no! :(
The poll has been updated. Please make sure to cast your votes on time.
Please remember that the game will be over once the number of remaining sheep is the same as the number of total wolves. That is three!

The twelve mirrors backstage will look pretty strange, too. Four of those mirrors have been broken as well, with only eight mirrors hung properly. If this isn't symbolic, then I don't know what is. Perhaps it would be best to clean the glass shards up. We wouldn't want anybody to get injured, right? And it would be best to get a lot of rest.

The loudspeakers seem to have been turned off now, and even the noise you could hear in the locked dressing room is gone… mysterious. But it's also helpful since you'd want to sleep peacefully at night, right?

Of course you do. Come morning, the stage will have Samurai Dogs YET AGAIN, coffee, Cheerios and milk. Have at it. ]

Poll #16634

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 4

Who do you think are wolves?

Nagi Springfield, Gilderoy Lockhart
0 (0.0%)

Asuna Yuuki, Aoi Kurashiki
0 (0.0%)

Inspector Cabanela, Jesse Pinkman
1 (25.0%)

Dick Gumshoe, Bobby Fulbright
2 (50.0%)

Luca Valentino, Lucina
0 (0.0%)

Grace Makutsi, Tony Chu
0 (0.0%)

L'Arachel, Kongwai Tao
0 (0.0%)

Diana, Dandy
1 (25.0%)

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We'll be going on a break this weekend!

[ 00 EST 24 April: Clue/Activity!!* (change of plans, I'll drop a clue tomorrow so you guys can do something over the weekend.)

00 EST 27 April: Suspicion poll comes to an end and Ousting poll gets put up.

00 EST 28 April: Ousting poll draws to a close. A new day begins, with two teams out of the game. ]

Comments

[fencefatale]

[ Always ever the skeptic, Asuna just simply arrows her eyes at him with the most dubious look in her eyes. ]

Well, it's definitely not me -- I could only use magic in ALO. [ A beat. ] And are we really sure this is magic?

[bestworstdad]

Leave it up to the women to wear the pants. You're reminding me of my wife every day.

[Says the guy with a Queen as a wife. Whoops.]

But I'm not gonna just grab him until he says it's okay.

[bestworstdad]

Not completely true at all. Empty your pockets!

[INTENSE.]

It's close enough that I want to check it out.

effing phone typos

[notaccurate]

[BUT HIS PRIVACY

He visibly wilts and gives up when Lucia nudges him forward, though. ]

Fine, fine, just- don't rough me up, I do not have an iron to get rid of wrinkles.

[fencefatale]

So you mean if we assume that Hans-san was the wolf and the group that was voted out on day one wasn't, then one of the other two teams in the clue is the wolf, right?

[fencefatale]

[ Nagi, pls. ]

... O- Okay. [ It's not the first time she's seen someone be intense about emptying her stuff, so she does so. What he'll find is what she's had on her this whole time -- her own cell phone (which is currently off), the cell phone that was given to them, and her wallet, which has her school ID and money (in yen!) inside. ]

[fencefatale]

[ Asuna is just tired of all of this, even if it doesn't show much, if at all, on her face. Although she seems to be pacing around, trying to stay away from the shattered dead bodies (?) before deciding to go to get something to eat. She won't be able to think on an empty stomach, and it wouldn't be any good if she makes other people worry like this. She has important things to do, important people to see. It's been three days, and the one who's completely worried sick is her.

After managing to get something into her stomach, she decides to stay in a corner of the stage before gesturing her hands to the side, as if she were to grab something that just wasn't there... before sighing. ]

If only I had my rapier, then I-- [ wouldn't be so helpless. But she doesn't voice that thought aloud. Although she's had her cellular phone off for the longest of times to preserve battery, considering the fact that A) they were no longer in Japan and B) she wasn't receiving signal to begin with, she suddenly decides to turn it on, as if she'd get a glimmer of hope that way. She couldn't contact Yui this way, of course, but there was always something that relieved her in her time of trouble.

And that was the sound of a young boy's heart beating that she could hear over the soft speakers of her phone. While she couldn't contact him (he was in the hospital, after all) the sound itself gave her a strange sense of comfort, causing her to close her eyes in relaxation before murmuring to herself aloud, worriedly; ] Kirito-kun... What do you think I should do?

[ She's not really in a mood to be bothered right now, being completely wary of her surroundings, but the fact that's she's a little distracted mean that anybody who walks manages to speak up to her or briefly touch her might just spook the young woman. ]

[bestworstdad]

What do you take me for? Some kind of American?

[Throwing that out there.

And patting him down. Keyword is patting. He knows what he's looking for!]

[thefaceofjustice]

He might have only been hasty. Ms. Kelly and Dr. Grey could be the wolves, and Prince Hans innocent. I'm saying that I don't believe both teams were guilty. But yes, the remaining teams in the clue when we missed a wolf would have the actual wolf in them.

But with the way things are going, we'll have to make our best guess at some point. Reviewing earlier voting behavior may give us better hints, but some teams have neglected to provide testimony on their own votes. We need a wider collection of testimonies before we can even be sure that none of them are lies.

[fencefatale]

I suppose. We might have been lucky the first night though, if that's the case; considering that the person who was ousted that night was chosen by random selection considering it was a tie.

Though in regards to the teams who haven't provided testimony, they might be doing so because they don't trust the group as a collective. And it's not easy to tell if someone lied in this case either. The wolves could be working together in saying who they voted for the suspicion polls, after all, and they could make any sort of excuse as to who they voted for. I'm going to say this right now, however, since I'm on the brink of being brought back into suspicion, if Kelly-san and Grey-san are, hypothetically, not wolves: myself and Aoi-kun are innocent. While I don't have concrete proof of this, our team has been offering up as much information as we possibly can. During the first suspicion poll, there were two votes for our team. During the night, if I remember correctly, nobody spoke up about our team, either, when tallies about the votes were brought up into conversation.

But if you want my testimony on anything else besides the voting itself, go ahead and ask; I've already spoken my piece on who our group voted for for the last two days. While I can't speak for Aoi-kun myself, I can at least speak about my personal experience.

[inspectormacarena]

[Uhoh, he's being called out on- ...whatever the hell he's doing to himself here. Well, he's not going to lie about it.]

Pleeenty of time to sleep when I'm dead, baby.

[thefaceofjustice]

I appreciate the cooperation!

Wolves are working together, but they're not going to be switching testimony with any sheep. If... for example, six teams say their suspicion vote was cast for Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Springfield, when in fact only five have... well, that will give us reason to pay extra attention to those six teams! It would also raise the question of why someone would hide their real vote by claiming it was for that team in particular.

[He has another point to raise, too... now he takes out his phone. It's safe to assume everyone got the same text message, but he holds it up to show it to her anyway.]

This message suggested that we could only make up to two mistakes. Going with the assumption that only one wolf was caught so far, meaning we've made one mistake... I believe that after tonight's ousting, we'll learn in the morning if that choice was wrong or right; if we've made our second mistake or not.

[curedham]

[Okay, well, L'Arachel's going to wait until after Lucina has destroyed the poor drums to approach her—her shoes click as she steps and she waits until she's right at Lucina's side to lay a hand on her shoulder because she knows better than to just sneak up on a lady with a goddamn sword.]

It will not face you. [For once in her life, L'Arachel is rather subdued—her voice is soft, even, though firm and steady.]

If they are truly dead, this is an ultimate act of cowardice—it was not those ousted our captor had issue with. If it will resort to this, it certainly does not have the honor to face any of us.

[notaccurate]

I am not sure what to think of you, to be honest.

[Luca has Hella pockets, so a pat down might take a bit. All of the stuff everyone was given is squirreled away in his pockets, as well as his wallet, which is full of papers of some sort. Also in his pockets are a normal pocketwatch, a box of blackboard chalk, and several small, polished stones, all of which are perfectly spherical.]

[notaccurate]

Only the foolish say that. Come, if you are done in here then at least take a nap.

[notaccurate]

I think we should also consider motivation, to be honest. Before tosay, none of the sheep knew the dire consequences of what happens to those voted out, so we had no real way of knowing just how much danger we were in. The wolves may have known ahead of time, and may have played more seriously from the start. That would certainly explain why Hans would be so quick to vote the first day, especially if Lockhart's team is a wolf team as well. Protecting allies and such.

Likewise we should look at who isn't getting as much attention. I do not know who knows who here, but I would think that if a wolf was a good friend of a sheep, they would try to protect that sheep.

[inspectormacarena]

Not just yet. There's plenty more observing to be done. But don't you worry your pretty little head, baby. I've pulled pleeenty of allnighters back in the day. [Mostly when he was like... fifteen years younger. Um.]

[notaccurate]

Is that why you have bags the size of my mother's purses under your eyes?

You have a teammate. He can observe while you sleep.

[inspectormacarena]

[He does not have bags the size of- ...okay maybe a little.]

I don't doubt that my teammate is giving this little game his all, but I dooo doubt his observation skills. Nothing personal against him, of course. Each has their own profession and I was trained to seek out suspicious activity while my partner... [He trails off for a second, then waves an idle hand.] Well, my partner has no profession at the moment.

[bestworstdad]

[None of which it what he's looking for.]

Nagi Springfield, Thousand Master, best mage in the world. Seems like a good enough start.

[notaccurate]

[Oh. Oh he is one of those types. ]

...right.

So am I free of suspicion now?

[bestworstdad]

Yep, seems fine to me. The real question is how to check out everyone else.

[notaccurate]

And my profession is, of many things, to gently nudge overworked men and women to remind them that their bodies need as much upkeep as their dissertations.

So, shoo. [He makes a shooing motion with a hand. ] Off to bed with you. The world will not end in two or three hours, I can assure you of that. A fresh mind may help you with your search, even.

[notaccurate]

How about you, then. If you are checking everyone, then someone should check you too.

[bestworstdad]

Go ahead! Though I'd rather the lady here pat me down.

[Laughing and sparkling. So good at that.]