6 999s + 3 Ushiromiyas (TNDG Day 6)

[keybroad]

((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.

Comments

PETITION

[keybroad]

I have a proposition. I want to see how it goes over with all of you.

[Lotus is holding a piece of paper in her heavily ringed hands. She reads it out loud primarily for Snake's benefit.]

In the event that the upcoming deadline allots fewer votes than the number of living participants present, and some person(s) casts a vote for Frank Reynolds, we the undersigned do solemnly swear to henceforth not vote for said person(s).

[Now she puts it in the middle of the table where everyone can pass it around.]

If you all think this is a good idea, then we can all sign this, and that will be a good start on getting many of the others to sign it.

[exequte]

Isn't that going a little too far? It seems like something like that will only make enemies.

[keybroad]

It is going to make a voting process that is clearer and swifter. I don't want what happened to Naoi-kun happening to anyone else.

[exequte]

If someone starts singling out people like that, it just seems like that's going to make enemies. I don't think anyone is going to like someone who votes for him very much regardless.

[keybroad]

The purpose of this list isn't to make enemies. Are you really gonna make me say it? The purpose is to make sure nobody votes for him in the first place!

[exequte]

I know that! But at the same time, nobody has said outright that we shouldn't vote for him yet because no one wants to be the first to say it. If people think that you're cruel, then they'll like you less, and if people like you less then you might die.

[Besides which, if someone does vote for him, at least they'll have two targets the round after, and people will not be so shy about calling for blood.]

[keybroad]

Well...

[Is June concerned for her? Lotus raises a hand towards the back of her neck - ah, it's still itchy, she ought to go for the temples instead. There.]

I don't come to murder games to meet men.

[exequte]

You don't need to. But if you try to lead a movement to keep someone from being voted for, then some people will think of that the same way as killing them, if it works. Even if someone needs to die anyway. I don't think that everyone has really accepted that people are going to die yet, because we haven't really seen it happen.

[keybroad]

Which is kind of weird. Why not show us the corpses? And then they just left poor Gallagher lying there so it's not even consistent...

But I mean, I told you, I'm probably voting for Sophie, not voting for him. I'm already killing him a little bit.

[exequte]

Not any more than the rest of us are, though. It just... It seems like probably people won't want to vote for him anyway? Since we can't vote for two people this time. And everybody already knows what he did.

[meatitfeedson]

I think the basis of it is a good idea, but June has a good point. We don't want to look too aggressive, and some people might take that the wrong way. The only ones who might possibly vote for him at this point would be the other Americans. Most of which don't seem to actually care about him. I doubt they would waste their singular votes on him, when they could use those to trade and keep themselves safe. They were quick to denounce him after all.

But even so, we can't account for stupidity. Posting something like that could be a good idea. The only problem is signing our names to it. That might come across too aggressive, and as if the nine of us are trying to control things.

[keybroad]

Do we post a notice anonymously? "Some of us will refuse to vote in the future for anyone who votes for Frank Reynolds now." I'm not sure where we can get a typewriter to keep the handwriting from getting recognized... and it could get people paranoid.

Maybe we do just wait and see, to keep from rocking the boat. Then if some person X does actually vote for him - and they'll probably be easily identified - we find some way to express the message that "dismayed by this result, we will not cast our votes for Frank Reynolds or X". I just feel it bad leaving doubt about who else dies instead... [Well, not ENTIRELY up to chance, see Ene content, but still.]

[exequte]

Posting something anonymously sounds like a good idea. I don't know if we'd be able to find a typewriter, but wouldn't there probably be stencils in the prop room? Those could be used as well.

If we're going to do it that way, though, then we'd want the message to be as aggressive as possible. That's how people would listen to it, after all.

[keybroad]

What if we sign it...

[making jazz hands]

With bullet hole stencils. One shot for each person who's lending their power to the plan.

[meatitfeedson]

I think not giving them fair notice would be taken worse than an anonymous message declaring that intent. They could always argue they didn't know they should steer clear of him, considering no one has said it directly.

If you're worried about the writing, then we just won't use our own hand. Say "This is a petition to ask all members of the community not to vote for Frank Reynolds. If anyone should, the rest of us may liken this to harbouring a fugitive and therefore a punishable action."

[keybroad]

Oh, "punishable action", I like that. It makes this sound more civilized, as if there's actually a law against what happened. Not to impose an undue burden on you, Kyrie, but with your experience reading contracts and the like it might be good if you'd write this.

[meatitfeedson]

I can do that. I'll draft something up and run it by everyone to finalise.

[unexpectedboner]

...I don't know that I feel comfortable signing something promising to kill a guy.

[keybroad]

Well, you're already sort of doing it by typing two names that aren't "Frank Reynolds" into your tablet.

[unexpectedboner]

That's--different. Manslaughter vs. murder 1, you know? Plus, I don't think it sets a good precedent. It's just gonna make everyone even more suspicious and more willing to betray each other. Even if that's gonna happen anyway, I don't see that you gain anything from forcing it to happen now.

[keybroad]

I guess now a petition won't work if I can't even get you guys to sign it. We have to not vote for someone, though. That's, like, the definition of not enough votes to go around. If we all agree about it we're betraying each other less... I should make all of you who lives after this attend a semester of algorithm reasoning class. Oh, well... it'll work out.

[unexpectedboner]

If you're fast enough at picking who to vote for, who you don't vote for isn't your problem.

[keybroad]

I mean, it's not, but I would prefer the person nobody voted for isn't, like, Mari, you know?

[unexpectedboner]

Yeah...

[scrubs at his face]

I don't know that this is really the game for me. I feel like I'm better at soccer.

Re: PETITION

[how_to_succeed]

I think the idea of doing it anonymously may be safer. We don't want to make ourselves targets more than we already have by working together like this.