Smiths

[dramatispersonae]

[ Instead of a grotto, you are now in a dirty smithing shop, with various vessels full of water for cooling and anvils spread throughout the area. There's even some half-finished blades scattered about or hanging from the walls. A dim lantern hangs from another wall, lighting the wooden sign above it.

Carved into the sign are these: Only you have the privilege of cooperation. Use it wisely. For, it will not last. A friend by night may be an enemy by dawn. ]

Comments

[mirroredvalue]

So who all's smiths today?

[icysemblance]

[a wave]

You've got Sterling on your side.

[mirroredvalue]

So you're all a team this time, then? That makes things a bit simpler.

[icysemblance]

This time around, we are. It does make things a bit easier, I think.

[mirroredvalue]

Yeah, it does. Still, should we try to figure out a plan, or just make things up as we go? We at least know who we are at this point.

[icysemblance]

What's the likelihood that the plan will get switched around on us after we make it?

[mirroredvalue]

...Hard to tell. Especially since there's no way to know if our roles haven't changed overnight.

[icysemblance]

[she huffs. of course.]

At best, nothing changes. At worst, we get split up, and it's about a fifty-fifty chance either way?

[foreignflight]

Are we actually supposed to make things for people?

[mirroredvalue]

...Don't think we have to, but we can if we want to? Star's answer was more about giving people options though, so we don't have to.

[foreignflight]

I mean--I guess we just have to meet people, right? I don't know how to make anything here anyway...

[mirroredvalue]

Pretty much, yeah.

[I'm definitely checking everything out here, though. I'm sorry, the inside of a workspace will never stop being fascinating to me.]

[foreignflight]

[ You can do that. I will be a wallflower and observe people instead for now. ]

[icysemblance]

[picks up one of the unfinished blades and looks at it]

- this looks like it would take a lot more work than just one night to finish. I mean, it's worth a shot, but if we can't, we can't.

[foreignflight]

I'm not sure we can... It's kind of silly to give us a role like this if we can't do anything with it. Knowing who others are is helpful, but they could change tomorrow, too, so it's not completely helpful either.

[icysemblance]

This whole thing is kind of silly, though.

[She shakes her head.]

It's not unhelpful, no. At least - unless the roles get switched around completely - we're alibis for each other. We can at least say that none of us did anything during the night, right?

[foreignflight]

No, but if something changes it might mean we trust someone we shouldn't, right? I guess that's what he wants... No one knows what they might be so everyone's equally as suspicious.

[icysemblance]

That's exactly what he wants, which is why it's exactly what we shouldn't do. I say throw it back in that snake's face.

[foreignflight]

So we don't choose anyone instead?

[icysemblance]

I don't know if going quite that far is okay, but we should trust each other, at least as far as 'everyone in the room should trust each other'.

[soldieronwards]

[poking idly at an unfinished blade]

Well, at least we know Jasper's not the traitors.

We also know that if anyone other than Sterling or Jasper claims to be smiths, they're either the traitors, the minion, or just screwing with us.

[mirroredvalue]

That's not quite true. There are still some roles that involve stealing someone else's role, or making two people switch roles. Either means that we might stop being smiths by the next round.

[soldieronwards]

Right, right...but it's not like we'd know.

[mirroredvalue]

That's true, yeah... That kind of makes it a pain, really. Especially when it changes a person's side and they're not allowed to know what side they're on.

[soldieronwards]

At least the snake must be getting a kick out of watching us run around like this.

[mirroredvalue]

Has he run any games before? I mean, probably, right? Don't remember him, though.

[soldieronwards]

From the way he talked, it sounded like he had. I don't remember any, though.

[mirroredvalue]

Seemed like he was using some other form, too...Guess he's not the only animal that can do that, but it makes it hard to tell who he is.