DAY 1 - Evening

[islandiastaff]

[It's been a long walk, but welcome to Lounge Two! It looks a lot like Lounge One, although the food spread isn't quite as impressive this time. Gotta motivate some hardcore survival, after all.

M.C is here, of course.]

CONGRATULATIONS! You've made it through the first day, and it's time to relax... but not for long! Eat well, check out your new rooms, and when the sun touches the horizon, it'll be time for... the Trial of Justice!

Comments

[exfired]

There's not gonna be a whole lot more to work with later on, either, if you look at the facts. Sure, there'll be less people to choose from, an' maybe a couple of them will end up being suspicious... But that's it. Fact of the matter is, except for the detective, there's not a heck of a lot any of us can do. An' whoever that is is pretty limited to spilling to people they know for sure are villages, but that'll take a couple of days to know 100%. The odds are stacked in the spies's favor for the most part, except for numbers.

[poetryandclarinet]

...Th-the detective might not want to say anything to anyone yet, but we still have the scientist-detective, don't we? Why- why don't we just wait for her to figure out who the spies are for now? [At least, that's his plan. She seems trustworthy enough and smart!]

[exfired]

[she seems fifteen and using science to prove the beach is a beach, so axel is a eh on that one]

I wouldn't put all our eggs into the, uh, "scientist-detective" basket quite yet, but sure, overall trying to deduce ain't bad. Except now we've said that's what we're doing, the spies could preeeetty easily frame someone with that mindset. Like, say they kick off creep-clown-guy because the other guy mentioned he wanted him out. We go for the bait an' end up kicking the wrong guy out. Get what I'm saying about long-term planning?

[poetryandclarinet]

Oh. [He didn't even think about anything like that..]

Then- then what do you think we should do, for long-term plans? Just.. wait until there's someone innocent enough for the detective to talk to?

[exfired]

No way. That's wasting a good couple of days of voting while they're picking us off. There's no point in abstainin' when we know the other guys aren't about to.

[poetryandclarinet]

But we don't know who to vote for.

[exfired]

For the first day, there's nothing wrong with goin' with our little Miss Detective's plan. After that... that's what I think we should be tryin' to figure out.

[poetryandclarinet]

Okay. [This is going to be pretty hard though, without extra help for the first few days.]

I-I don't have any idea what to do after today, though. If guessing and making assumptions isn't going to work, I mean. [He's a pretty useless guy, sorry.]

[candyrocks]

Um.

But if we picked wrong, didn't we lose double the people we did on our team?

[exfired]

Yeeep. But we can't just abstain every night until we're 100% on who we're voting off.

[candyrocks]

I guess I don't get it...'cause how does voting somebody off now help us any?

[skyentist]

Oh, that's right. [Dang it.] So if we go with my deductions, we can only do this for the first night, since after that they'll start framing people.

What we really need is for the actual Detectives to have a way to tell people what they know without telling people who they are.

[exfired]

Bingo!

At the same time, we can't just rely on the detectives. At best, it'll take 'em a couple of days to find someone they're 100% positive is either villager or spy.

[skyentist]

Scientifically speaking, if they're really lucky in who they investigate, there's a slight chance they could find multiple villagers in one night. But otherwise you're right.

[exfired]

Technically, that'd probably count as unlucky... Either way, it'll take 'em a couple of days to figure out a spy and villager info combo. Not to mention there's the double agent role in there.

[skyentist]

It's lucky in some ways. If they have those confirmed villagers, they'll know who to tell their information to. But I guess the double agent would complicate that.

[carptricks]

If some people wind up suspicious, that's still something more than what we're working with now.

[stuffs his hands into his pockets and frowns]

If we vote out a normal villager, then we'll be down two players while the spies will still be untouched. I think that's a pretty good reason to hold off for one round.

[exfired]

We'll be down two villagers pretty soon regardless. There's no way everyone'll abstain, even if it's just some spies picking off peeps they know are villagers with some lousy excuse.

[carptricks]

Down two is much better than down three.

Think about it. If we shoot in the dark and hit a villager, who does that benefit? The spies, not us. Not to mention there's a chance we'd accidentally hit a detective, too. All we'll get out of it is a fake sense of accomplishment for actually making a decision.

[light shrug]

I'm not usually the type who likes to sit around and do nothing, but in this case. . .

[exfired]

I'm sayin' someone's gonna go down tonight either way. You saying all twentyish of us here, including the spies, won't vote for someone? Just the one vote is enough to get somebody kicked out. There's no point in abstaining since there's no way to guarantee everybody'll do it.

[islandiastaff]

Aaaactually, if a majority abstains, then abstain wins.

[exfired]

Forget I ever opened my mouth. Okay, points to abstain.

[you mean this isnt real survivor, shit]

[carptricks]

[HM. . .]

. . . are we sure about that?

I mean. . . I guess we don't know if the votes are gonna become public or not. But if they do, then it's pretty dangerous for a spy to vote randomly if everyone else abstains.

2/2

[carptricks]

[WAIT THE STAFF HAS SPOKEN]

[lets out a wry laugh]

Well, nevermind that idea, then.

[exfired]

[COMMENTS TOO FAST.....]

Yeeeep. Majority wins, no matter what. Never mind all that, then. Though it might be a good idea to keep it in mind when the numbers get lower.