week 3 ( monday );

[reidentify]

[Meeting in the longhouse is a go! Lief clears his throat, as a part of him wonders how he keeps ending up in this situation, but:]

Thank you all for gathering here. These past few weeks have been difficult, but I pray that none of us fall into despair. Now, more than ever, we need to keep our spirits up and put an end to this twisted game.

Vriska and Kirigiri have asked that we take advantage of our time now to discuss our next course of action, without an immediate deadline constraining us, driving us to ill temper. As we have struggled with how we should approach the trial, perhaps we should focus on the roles—the ones with the purpose to kill.

In particular, what sort of people would the Chiefs place in such a role? Not necessarily who would kill, normally, but who would be the Chiefs' "ideal" candidates. That is what we wish to figure out.

... Of course, we may not come to a complete agreement. But perhaps we will walk away from this with a better idea of how to go on from here, if nothing else.

[ooc: basically, a mingle post to discuss stuff! top-level and hijack away, etc.]

Comments

[chessking]

The field is too wide, at the moment. There's 38 of us and no real indication as to the number of people who have roles and how the role breakdown happens.

We can only assume that the killer roles are also having the same problem as us in trying to determine the role breakdowns, but that's also assuming that they are all isolated and don't know anything about each other - which is plausible, considering how the Chiefs have been less than transparent and evasive at best when it comes to giving out information.

Like it or not, I think we can only make decent headway when the field is thinned further, since like you said, we're all taking shots in the dark - the odds that whoever is killed on a Friday is not someone with a role is higher than most.

Joshua did not have a role. It's in the rules that if someone with a role was killed, the robots would tell us.

[ that's about the only thing that's confirmed, which makes it super annoying. ]

[jokered]

[agreeing with lelouch is definitely not his favorite thing, given how they don't do so very often—but there's not much to disagree with here.]

I don't like the idea of more people having to die to get there—but I think like it or not, that's going to be what happens. The number of potential suspects becomes easier to spot, and so will patterns of discrepancies in their alibis or evidence.

[aggravating! the situation is aggravating.]

It's good to bear everything in mind. But too many shots in the dark and pointing fingers really will get innocent people killed unfairly, so we all need to be careful.

[chessking]

[ look, they're all in this shitty game with no way to make the game less aggravating. he'll take this temporary agreement truce thing. ]

If anything, the partner system is designed to thin the field as much as possible. We lose four people every weekend at the minimum from here on out-- [ he's fucking salty about the rule change I guess ] --because that's assuming that we only have one killer and we manage to execute the right person. What if there's more than one killer, especially if we're subscribing to the theory that more than one person has the killing role?

We're running out of time.

[ and he. doesn't look very pleased at having to propose this but: ] If it comes down to it, we very well may have to implement strategic voting to cast our net wide enough.