TNDG Day 10: Clique Post

[keybroad]

[The call that went out for the remaining Ushiromiyas was a single hoarse holler. Into the sci-fi set they go. Lotus is here, wearing a knee-length dress of such sheer and currently unsmooth fabric that she may or may not have slept in it. Her bedside table hosts a red-and-black checkered glass of heavily diluted absinthe, and a bouquet of blue and white flowers.]

All of us are here who are going to be here? Good.

Comments

"CRACK" CONTAINER

[keybroad]

Okay, does anyone who's better friends with Santa than me want to come up with a tasteful Schroedinger's cat joke about his current situation, because I am not doing it.

[HIS ABSENCE IS SO DEPRESSING???]

[meatitfeedson]

Something about whether he's getting laid or not?

[That's better than alive or dead...]

[keybroad]

What we learn about what's happening to him right now this weekend depends on how we open the box. Does he have markers with a short enough Half-Life?

[golden_dream]

A... what?

[keybroad]

Um, it's a physics experiment about a cat. A guy named Schroedinger came up with it. Santa thought - thinks - it's very interesting and funny.

[golden_dream]

...It's not something like a "put buttered-toast on top of the cat and then drop it upside down and see what happens," sort of thing, is it?

[keybroad]

It is sort of like that, yeah. You could say that you drop a buttered cat off a two story building. Then, as it's falling and almost hit the ground, the canopy rolls out, so you can't see the cat land on the sidewalk. Which side is it?

IMPORTANT NON-VOTING BUSINESS

[keybroad]

Did anyone learn interesting information during their dates that they want to share.

[SANTA WOULD HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH...]

VOTING INTENT DECLARATIONS

[keybroad]

Let's go over what we know so far. Kyrie is voting for Rosa, Eva is voting for Kyrie, and Rosa is voting for Eva. Kyrie is also voting for Jumpei.

VOTING TABLE

[keybroad]

[[GETS EDITED TO HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE NEW TO THE CLIQUE POST, DON'T REPLY]]

AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS: THE HOTEL

[keybroad]

I have a proposition for all of you.

[Lotus has clicked her bangles together like she usually does to get attention, but didn't do it accurately and made a rather not loud noise. She is so tired.]

I think that if all of us are going to live, we will have to act immediately. We're pretty close to having an ideological majority like Kyrie recommended, if you count close allies like Ronove, Niles, Rohan, and Corrin. And we're pretty close to the point of lethal consequences for ourselves if we don't send people to the hotel, not just other players paying the price.

This round, the eight of us got eight votes. "The votes of members of the alliance" is now almost a smaller number than "the members of the alliance". If the number of votes we get won't increase, then we have to decrease the number of alliance members.

Clover and Snake, you hate being separated, right? How would you like to both go to the hotel at the same time? It's entirely possible with the resources of our alliance. Instead of Clover and Snake being entitled to one vote each from alliance members, we would vote Clover twice, and Snake would go through Eva's hotel pass. Clover and Snake could switch roles, of course, I'm just putting it that way for clarity.

I, Lotus, would vote for June and Clover. Kyrie would use her third vote on Clover. June would vote for me. It's very simple. Nobody needs to participate in the hotel pass roulette and physically harm others or worsen our reputation. It would be even easier if June or myself get voted for by other players. Well, what do you think? Obviously it can't go forward without Snake and Clover and especially Eva agreeing, and I won't do something radical like declare a second vote for Clover until you agree.

[meatitfeedson]

I would be willing to do that. It would be nice to keep Eva-neesan's hotel pass as a real trump card but getting a move on having more people sent to the hotel is a good idea. And really, we should be looking after our own in that anyway. It's great to have more like-minded people, but frankly those are also the people who then most deserve our protection. If Clover and Snake don't mind being sent off, and if Eva doesn't mind giving up her pass, I'll vote that way.

On that note, is anyone making a bid for the hotel pass?

[keybroad]

I'm really heartened by your support. It would be the same result if you still voted for June and she voted for Clover, but I think we'll make a better good cop / bad cop presenting it to the community, while June still has a reputation as really nice. Because she is really nice.

If you really want to go over the top not looking involved, June, you could trade with someone else and I trade with Niles instead.

[meatitfeedson]

Hey, I have a really nice reputation too, you know? Or ahve you heard something?

[keybroad]

Well, no. Everyone is doing great, Rohan is really happier after your date with him. It's just with what we were looking into last voting round and everything, I figured you were more willing to take that risk with regards to your future reputation, whereas June has been really risk averse, with the petition and so on.

[meatitfeedson]

I don't want everyone to think I'm some awful person, but you're more or less right. When it comes down to it, I don't mind laying down the law. It isn't actually something terrible after all, if they can understand that more people will be saved this way.

[bookmarking]

...

[Clover hesitates, twiddling her fingers, but finally looks up with a more determined expression.]

If it's the only way...I'd choose the hotel over death on national TV any day. Neither of us have any votes, and if Eva's okay with using up her hotel pass on either of us, we can do it.

Just...just promise us that you'll play to the end. [A pause.] For as long as you can.

[snakenoeyes]

Agreed. If this is the only way to make it through today, it's better if we begin to save ourselves.

[bookmarking]

[She looks up at him and takes his hand.]

Yeah. I guess we can't rely on vote strategy all the time now.

Re: AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS: THE HOTEL

[golden_dream]

...What's Eva-nee-san's idea of this plan?

[keybroad]

This is the first I've gotten to ask her about it. I haven't spoken with Snake or Clover about it before either. I didn't want anyone to feel pressure from some other party already agreeing.

[golden_dream]

All right... it is her pass, after all.

[keybroad]

If she does say yes, I also want to let Eva alone decide another matter. Whether the use of the pass is announced to the public ahead of time, or instead everyone is left to ask themselves where "the second pass used in this voting round came from".

[note to the future reader: Eva's pass would in fact be the third pass, the first being Ene's and the second earned through poison. However, at the time this was originally posted, it had not yet been announced that not one but two players had won the bid.]

[how_to_succeed]

If everyone else is agreed, I'm willing to use the pass.

[keybroad]

Thank you, Eva! It's very generous of you. I hope this works out for everyone.

[how_to_succeed]

Thank you--I hope it works out too.

[There is a hint of an implied "or else" at the end of that.]