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6 999s + 3 Ushiromiyas (TNDG Day 6)

((CONTENT WARNING: Extremely dubious and detailed discussion of teenager's assisted suicide in the Help A Robot thread??? There is also a lot of yelling in some of the other threads that has dubious properties due to domestic context IT'S BEEN A MONTH SINCE THIS LOG AND I WASN'T IN ALL THE THREADS SO PEOPLE PLEASE HELP ME IF THERE ARE CONTENT WARNINGS I AM NOT INCLUDING...))

[It is the morning after the tattoo game and the ominous vote distribution. Breakfast of milkshakes and whatever else people brought is set out on a conference table in the sci-fi set. Through the doorways, from the room where these people all sleep, there is a faint smoke from the candle at the shrine for Seven, a counter with a portrait, water, and fruit.

Lotus lifts her eyebrows once everyone is there.]

Hip hip hooray, let's face the day.

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Considering I wrote it, it would be me right? But it isn't even my usual writing, how would they figure it out?

Anyway I think we should only use it if the majority agree on it, so I'm not saying it's definitely happening, either.

No, it wouldn't be you. It would be who's perceived as the most influential or loudest of the group!

As far as anyone else is concerned, my group and yours are separate, no matter how well we get along.

...But you know I wouldn't let anyone blame you, or do anything to you.

You can't stop the thoughts people have. What brews inside peoples' hearts.

Sure I can.

[She presses her lips together, biting them. It's true she couldn't do anything without killing everyone with those thoughts. But she hates not being in control, she hates the feeling.]

No. Just like I can't stop everyone who wants to go against June.

...I know.

...

I'm sorry.

What are you even sorry for?

I don't know.

[ Shuffles his feet. ]

Well then don't apologise for anything!

...This sort of thing is where I "go hard", sorry. No one should have to see their parent's badside.

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You can't watch everything. You can't make someone vote, or not vote. And once it's over, it doesn't matter.

There's only a couple people who'd have enough voting power and a history of voting outside of their group. The way this thing reads is pretty damning.

It means they run the risk of not getting any votes. Because if we don't have enough to go around, everyone will be looking for a reason to ignore someone.

Yeah, and those someones would be Santa and me, the people who've regularly had extra votes and given them away to whoever needed them, without direct trades.

Look. If you guys are so dead-set on ominous, threatening letters, fine, knock yourselves out. But make sure the threat doesn't involve me.

I have given away three entire votes none of which were direct trades that round! But... I see your point, it doesn't look the same on me, nobody is calling me a fairy godmother. Okay, how about this. When you were like, we can just talk to people like non-mafiosi. I was thinking of having lunch with Rohan today. I can bring some of this up.

...Yes. I would appreciate that. He seems like the kind of guy who'd be open to it, too. Maybe he'll bring it up with someone else, too.

It's true he's also got some people he knows, been making connections with others. And at any rate I think my alliance with him is separate from whether we agree about this.

[Exhales.]

Maybe that's... the third way we're looking for. Where we don't put out a petition, but we don't do nothing either.

Yeah. And even if someone complains, it's a lot easier to play off a comment as idle gossip than to explain away an anonymous manifesto. If other people start talking about it, it's not our problem, either.

[Just, a little self-conscious now.]

The thing about the voting system is that the friends of anyone who would otherwise go without a vote can ensure they do.

But that's exactly why we'retalking about this rather than going ahead and doing it without group consensus.

Assuming they have a vote, and don't need to switch off to someone new, since maybe they voted for that person last round, for example.

What I'm saying is that it's way too early for a heel turn, especially when we don't know if we're gonna get over.

[Offhandedly] Yeah, that's a good point. Majority vote. I mean, even with four votes against, I might change my vote to against. I don't want to drag the group down.

Maybe we're looking at it in a way that's too much like the business world, when everyone else isn't part of something like that.

Oh, like you'd vote against your own idea. Don't try to be Miss Manipulation, the look doesn't wear well on your skin.

Do not get me started in a word of wars on looks. It'll turn your hair white for real.

If I were married to the idea I would have already done it, okay? It's a piece of paper, putting it outside wouldn't take that long.

[Flexible or divorced, take your pick of joke]

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