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.

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CRACK CONTAINER

[keybroad]

[Lotus is wearing an evening gown that is rather immodest given that she had to find one with natural gaps for her tattoos - the enneagram visible on the front, , the other two on her back. There are also dots on her calves, the ⠎⠅ on the left and another set of characters on the right. The slits of the dress swish around her ankles as she sits forlornly.]

Well, we can't make fun of Santa for his King tattoo now.

[Or can they.]

IMPORTANT INTERPERSONAL BUSINESS OF ANY NON-VOTING TYPE

[keybroad]

[Does anyone want a milkshake? There's definitely one for Eva!!!]

DIRECT DECLARATIONS OF VOTING INTENT

[keybroad]

[Show of hands, get this over with.]

Katou will be voting for me. I'm looking into voting for Sophie.

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.

[exequte]

But what about all of the other ones?

[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.]

[jinglebros]

I'm voting for Corrin and Junpei. [ Santa is tired and examining his hands, his voice is rough. ] Try and stop me.

[jinglebros]

[ Santa makes a whining noise and and pulls the sleeves of his long sleeve shirt down a little more. ]

[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.

TIME TO HELP OUT A ROBOT????

[jinglebros]

[ After awhile, Santa wanders off to look at the shrine. He's quiet back there with a stiff back, and he stays there for a long time before coming back. When he does, his face is blank in such a way that anyone who knows him well would know isn't great. ]

So. Ene wants our help dying.

[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.

[exequte]

[??? Well that is certainly unexpected but. Yes. It's probably easier not to kill her themselves.]

... Well what if she volunteers to not have anyone vote for her, then?

[jinglebros]

That's the idea, but too many kids like her for that to work easily.

[keybroad]

Well, Charlie voted for him without telling anyone. Of course, he can't do that twice in a row. I'm just still gun shy...

I know the list might just come together without anyone getting around to writing his name. On the other hand, if I give out this petition at all, I want people to have plenty of time to sign it.

[exequte]

[HMMM]

It's everyone else who does like her that we need to convince, then. Since she's a robot, I think that could be done, if she's willing to lie a little.

[Or not lie, who knows? but whatever]

[keybroad]

Uhhhhhhhhhhh...

Well, she's not a baby... but... Why?

[jinglebros]

Because 'someone's got to die so other people live'. She's playing the fucking martyr, basically.

[keybroad]

I don't... I don't like it much... I mean, I should do that before a... nnnnnnngh...

[jinglebros]

I don't like it at all. Believe me, I fucking tried my best to talk her out of it.

[ Pause. ]

You should do what?