gamehead | night six; hunters

Once again, as everyone remains locked inside with a raging blizzard outside, you awake at 11 PM precisely to find the door from your cabin open.

Outside, despite the sounds of a blizzard and the whiteout blocking the views from your window, the world is still and calm. The ground and trees are blanketed in thick snow, but no snow is falling and the wind is no longer blowing.

You're all familiar now with what awaits you in the clearing behind the woods, near the caves at the base of the mountain. Still, even if you thought to resist, you are unable to disobey the call that brings you to where your fellow hunters gather.

Several of the trees nearby have long pieces of parchment nailed to them. In case you'd somehow forgotten, the rules you are bound by are nailed there:

You are a hunter. Your role is to devour prey.

→ In this game, there are hunters, prey, and scavengers. Everyone here is a hunter, and everyone else is either prey or scavenger.
→ Every night, the hunters will meet and pick someone to kill. Then, a few lucky hunters will get to kill the prey themselves!
→ The next day, everyone will get together. The prey will try to find out who the hunters are!
→ At the end of the day, there will be a trial, and one player will be chosen. Whoever is chosen will be executed!
→ The hunters will win if they outnumber the other players or kill all of the prey!
→ Be careful and be smart! Don't let the prey know who you are, and try to make other prey look suspicious! Remember that some prey is dangerous to you. They might have special abilities that will help them find out who you are!
→ Always keep in mind the scavengers, too. Some of them may just be hunting YOU!

As a hunter, you have particular incentives.

→ In this game, the only ones guaranteed to live are those still standing at the end.
→ If the prey win, all of the hunters will be killed.
→ If the hunters win, the survivors can make a request. If you request all the dead to return to life, all players will leave this place unharmed.
→ The only way to guarantee everyone leaves here alive is for the hunters to kill the prey and win the game!

As hunters, you are sworn to secrecy.

→ You may not tell prey or scavengers about your incentives. You may not hint to anyone about your incentives. You may not try to help them figure it out.
→ If you are found out as a hunter, you may tell prey you were bribed or threatened. You cannot tell them about the special rules or that anyone can come back to life.
→ You may not help prey or scavengers. You may not assist them in any way. You may not attempt to throw the game. You may not reveal your fellow hunters.

→ If a hunter helps the prey or reveals the hunters' incentives, that prey will be killed. There will also be consequences for the hunters.
→ If the betrayal was intentional and serious, at the end of the game, none of the dead will be revived.
→ Otherwise, if there was a betrayal, at the end of the game the dead prey will be revived, but the dead hunters will remain dead.

As a hunter, you had a choice to play.

→ All of you agreed to be here.
→ All of you are bound by these rules.
→ All of you betray your own lives and the lives of the other players if you break them.

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He got pissed off enough at one point to say he was gonna vote for Touko tomorrow, and she went for Ema too so it's pretty much the same basis. I know the Hope's Peak kids aren't gonna like that much but it is an alternative.

In my experience, most people shoot first and ask no questions later. But hey, if that doesn't happen here, great.

Maybe if we bring back Syo and twist the facts it'd be enough to start a mob against her tomorrow.

But Gundam seems like he could be... guided to vote for someone else if someone else is more suspicious. So who else is suspicious who isn't a hunter?

Joshua?

[Holden grinds his teeth.] With Akane down for the count Beat's close to the only ally I got left... he gave me a goddamn reason to vote for Ciel yesterday. I don't think I can be part of any plan to take Joshua out.

We could make the case that Ciel is suspicious, though. Perhaps she only went after Bruce because Bruce was a detriment as a hunter. Maybe he spent too much time arguing with the hunters to get them not to kill and Ciel decided to get rid of him.

...I'm not sure that logic will work - I think the town's figured out by now how heavily we're stuck with the rules. But if we can get someone really smart - like Kyouko - to say it should be Ciel after all, like maybe get her to say Ciel is the convert - hell, use that to explain why she voted for Akane - I could get Beat to vote for her again and that's the two votes it might take right there.

That makes sense. Obviously, we didn't choose Ema.

Didn't Ema show or tell Ciel about her results?

Uh... I think she was involved with the process pretty closely but Ema said she left them with Luke. I'd need the radio to make sure.

[ Sharon nods and looks into the distance, her chin in her palm. ]

Luke has had it bad enough, and Edward wanted him protected.

There's Charles, Madoka, Rikku, Fukawa...

That was something. When we were killing Sayaka last night, she said another magical girl would kill us. Does anybody know what the hell a magical girl is, and if there are any others here?

Madoka's gonna make everyone really sympathetic to the deceased. Charles will ruin our chances of making people suspect Ciel. Fukawa's not a bad idea...

I'm just not sure it wouldn't be a mercy to kill Luke at this point. He's gone up the belfry now that he's a freaking orphan, and it wouldn't surprise me if people try to lynch him to prevent people from dying at night. Also thinking it's a mercy. [That kills him.]

Luke... I'll do it if I have to, but... [ But it's going to be tough killing a kid like Luke. ]

I think we have to eliminate threats for now.

Maybe we'll wait for a nicer method. But I doubt we're getting one.

Yeah, Critter has a knack for finding terrible ways to kill people. I just hope the person doesn't wake up this time.

[Glum.] I don't think we can count on that. It's starting to look like Sam Winchester was an anamoly.

Think you might want to sit it out tonight? We've reached a point where we know that whoever we kill is innocent. The most we can hope for is that we get a prey with a role.

[With a wry smirk that could not be much more dissonant from his dead eyes, Holden shrugs his shoulders with a "Heh".] There are plenty of other wolves around to take a turn.

Good. Take a night off. As much of one as you can, at least.

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