Day 6 - Embracing the madness

[mrblarney]

Only two kills today. With three consecutive days without any trace of the asylum staff, I think we can be pretty sure that they've been put out of commission. I find it highly unlikely that they've been negligent for this long or that there's a very efficient guard out there.

I wonder if someone will try to implicate godmode as a cannibal due to the lack of kills? Hopefully it won't be any of us to do so in order to be able to ride the bandwagon.

[gtc]

Right, I'm not touching godmode unless he touches me first, today.

These are our primary enemies, then, right? -->godmode, The Cow King, (jackisreal?)

[smooveop]

Working off of an old idea, is it still possible that the staff was split into nurses and orderlies (split cells) with even/odd kills? If all of one faction was killed and the guard blocked the other's kill that would explain the lack of sedations for 3 days. It just seems so early for all of 1 solid faction to be gone.

Ok, so 40 people?

10 staff (5/5 nurses and orderlies)
10 sane (2 cells of 5)
5-10 self committed
10-15 vanillagers/insane with a sprinkling of half-crazed seers?

Does this sound plausible at all?

Also, are there any of the odd day sane left alive, and if so, how are we communicating with them?

[mrblarney]

Mr. Defecation claimed to me that he was in a group of three self-committed. In terms of the deaths, we have:

7 Insane
3 Asylum Staff (Nurses, Orderly)
2 Self-Committed
5 "Insane"/"Sane"
1 Suicidal

and among the living, we have 5 "Insane"/"Sane", 1 Self-Committed, and 12 unknowns. I really don't know how many Asylum Staff there might still be left, but it would be extremely odd, though not implausible, that they've all been neutralized already. I think that since the staff and the self-committed were meant to be a team, there'd be at most ten of them total like us. It sounded like how they differed was that the staff had a full kill while the self-committed had none based on Mr. Defecation's descriptions, so a staff number of three would be far too small. I don't exactly know what to make of it.

As for the odd-day sane, there's one left, who will probably contact me today with the password. Hopefully, anyways - we don't want another crossfire to happen.

Gandalf, you did say that you were going to make godmode your vote today during the post-close banter. So you do have an out if you want to cast the first stone.

In other news, jackisreal has contacted me with an interest in working together. He has been suspicious of godmode and he has already placed the first vote, so we'll see how that goes. I should be able to keep him friendly, though.

[Capfalcon]

We have hit a lot of the staff. Maybe the staff was split into orderlies/nurses, with both having one half kill. It's still pretty small, but it would explain the deaths.

[mrblarney]

Then there'd only be two nurses and two orderlies. Far too small. Maybe it is negligence, and Over The Moon and real_pochacco are coincidentally asylum-aligned. The recent 80s mini-phalla included a point where one of the last two mafia members was replaced for inactivity. Darian was left alone until the end because the players could not conceive of a mafia member going inactive and needing to be replaced. If the proper information comes out, perhaps we can use the fresh memory of this event to persuade the inactives or their replacements to be eliminated. The longer this game goes, the worse off we are. At three kills per day, we have at least four days before the game can end, and we'll probably need at least a fifth day since we're probably going to lose someone just to chance.

[gtc]

A private message from garroad_ran:

I'd love to know what you guys are thinking, because I think I might have this game sort of figured out.

Are you guys sane by any chance?

[gtc]

And HeavyVillain has the password about harmony and shit.

[mrblarney]

Dangit HeavyVillain, passwords are meant to be secret. Contact us via PM! Did Teucrian not give you either of my or Gandalfs' names? Geez...

garroad_ran's message is suspicious, I think he's trying to get us to let slip some information we shouldn't. We can't just leave him hanging, though. Might just need to go along with it for now, take some risks.

I wonder what godmode is searching for by trying to get reconfirmation of death alignments...

[gtc]

He's probably looking at 3 separate groups (his and two others) and realizing that there's someone that all 3 of them disagree on.

[gtc]

My response to garroad:

1) I wouldn't be able to verify the Cow King's alignment, though I suspect he's sane.

2) What makes you think I am? And of what interest would it be to you?

His reply:

Nothing makes me think you are, except that there seem to be a ton of sane people around. And as for what interest it would be to me... well, any information in this game is valuable. I said I have a theory as to how this game works. Knowing how many people are sane might help me verify it.

[gtc]

Oh Jesus, who should we kill today? I just realized it's an even-numbered day.

[Capfalcon]

I don't even know.

[gtc]

It might be a good idea not to kill anyone, if we think there are potential teammates out there.

[Capfalcon]

I'm not fond of wasting a kill. As far as we know, we need to be the last people standing at the end, and using the kill shortens the time we have to survive.

And think of it as a mercy, to release people from the grip of this insanity