Game Post

[dramatispersonae]

[The doors along the veranda suddenly snap open, revealing one room for every team. Each team's room is marked with a small banner in their color.]

Coral	Ruby	Jasper	Citrine
Carnelian	Tiger's Eye	Heliodor	Peridot
Emerald	Turquoise	Sapphire	Iolite
Amethyst	Kunzite	Sterling	Onyx

Poll #11904 Suspicion Poll

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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Row One

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Coral
8 (53.3%)

Ruby
4 (26.7%)

Jasper
2 (13.3%)

Citrine
1 (6.7%)

Row Two

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Carnelian
3 (20.0%)

Tiger's Eye
1 (6.7%)

Heliodor
7 (46.7%)

Peridot
4 (26.7%)

Row Three

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Emerald
1 (6.7%)

Turquoise
0 (0.0%)

Sapphire
5 (33.3%)

Iolite
9 (60.0%)

Row Four

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Amethyst
3 (20.0%)

Kunzite
8 (53.3%)

Sterling
3 (20.0%)

Onyx
1 (6.7%)

Instructions: I have heard of the games before, wolves and sheep. They didn't seem much fun. This time, it is just a game and perhaps something much quicker. How does this sound—I've picked four teams to be my special foxes. It is their job to work together and stay hidden. The rest of you against them (do I have to call you anything, since you're just normal?) will try to find them within the next three hours.

But to make things more fair, there will be a clue. You see all the teams arranged just so? In each row and each column, there will be only one fox team. That helps, doesn't it? I think it should.

When your team thinks it knows who's a fox, place a vote on them. You have one vote per team, per row. If you have not voted when time runs out, then I won't be able to score you for whether you were right or not...

Foxes will receive points for every team who doesn't vote for them and a large bonus if no fox teams are considered the most suspicious, so it's to their benefit to work together.

The rest of you will get points for guessing right and a large bonus if you get all four teams right.

On the other hand...

There might be some bonuses for other things as well—but it's more fun if you don't know everything, right?

It is a game, so it should be fun.

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ETA: Absent teams MAY be foxes, or may not be.))

Comments

[wouldntkilladragon]

I was too. It took a while before I realized that's what it was.

[performing]

D'you prefer one over hte other?

[wouldntkilladragon]

...not at the moment, no.

[Complex feels.]

[performing]

[studying him a moment]

... Rider, then, till you decide which one you prefer.

[wouldntkilladragon]

...all right.

[performing]

Anyway, in all of that ... [handwaves] I have no idea if we get other clues, but I assume if we were foxes, we'd be told, yeah?

[wouldntkilladragon]

I would hope so. It'd just have to be pure guessing if the foxes couldn't give tells.

[performing]

Though that'd be an effective way to not know, I guess.

[wouldntkilladragon]

Yeah, but not really a challenge then. It's just luck.

[performing]

There's something to be said about that, too.

[wouldntkilladragon]

But she's had a game about knowing and figuring out people before.

[performing]

She has?

[wouldntkilladragon]

[Nods.] A game of two truths and one lie about teams.

[performing]

That doesn't sound so bad ...

[wouldntkilladragon]

It wasn't. It was kind of fun.

It was the first game Heliodor won that I was in.

[performing]

Sounds like it'd be more relaxed than this, too.

[wouldntkilladragon]

It was just talking to your team instead of everyone.

[performing]

... I think I like when we get to talk to other people, but this game's got some history ...

[wouldntkilladragon]

...it did sound like it.

[performing]

I think that's coloring a lot of how people are taking it.

[wouldntkilladragon]

...Kitsune does seem to lack tact.

[performing]

I guess since she's pretty ...

[wouldntkilladragon]

What does that have to do with it?

[performing]

Master used to say pretty people needed less tact.

[wouldntkilladragon]

Why?