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night eight; 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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Just one more loss left to take before you all can go on to finish this. That's me. I got lucky due to a number of other incidents, however, with nothing else more pressing - they're going to come after me next.

But it won't be easy for them after that so... just a little more...

Today was... difficult. So I want you to just... cheer you guys on while I still can. ( being a wolf sucks but here she is preparing to give her all cheering the rest of you on ) It's not going to be easy, but they won't find picking out the rest of you to be so easy.

I think after I'm gone and their last easy execution is established, you all should stir things up.

( the way she smiles says she has one last idea to throw out there. she's trying hard still, for someone who considers herself a dead girl walking )

The last few days have been chaotic... but clear-cut. But what happens if we try to invoke chaos without a clear-cut answer? People are already being effected by everything that's happened - give them something to really worry about and they might just scatter a bit in uncertainty. What would really help us the most is if they started to turn on each other.

What do you think a number of weird, seemingly unrelated acts would do to a group of people already poorly held together?

( .....no she hasn't been affected by the craziness of it all either. still. all she can think about is what might help her allies in the future when things get tougher and she won't be there to...

........be not all that helpful anyway. huh. )

...Wait a second. Ada. You think we're gonna let you go tomorrow just like that? Three days in a row of us getting killed - I don't wanna roll over that much. It'll put the prey on a streak, and that'll hold them together more.

They don't have hard evidence on you like they did the last three losses we had. Even if the Watcher has caught you, that would match up with the whole Bloodhound idea Ciel's pushing.

So what if we go through with that whole fake poisoning idea of yours first? You're the last easy loss. You've accepted that, I'm not sure whether it's weird or endearing but you have. With America feeling like shit about his role - whether or not he survives tonight, there's no reason not to do that plot tomorrow unless you just don't feel like it. Best case you get lynched a day later than you were expecting, or maybe people even just forget about how you were lying again. Worst case... well, we're already in the worst case for you, aren't we?

With America so honestly insisting he won't protect anyone I don't know if anyone would believe that the next night he would protect me... ( frankly, hope is a lot more difficult than acceptance almost, but she's trying ) And if we kill him tonight, that plan won't work. I don't know what Ciel will do but she certainly will not have forgotten.

And neither will Miss Kirigiri. To continue to play her part she has to continue to push for my execution. And we can't risk making her look like she's acting out of character. ( because like people viewed Luke's importance to be greater than Fukawa's... Ada's is beneath that of Kyouko's and she knows that )

But... maybe... I don't know. Maybe there's something I can do.

( at least she intends to try to induce some chaos before she goes, if only to help her allies. it's not so much for her own sake that she's considering it at all )

Okay, okay, uh... what kind of "weird acts" did you have in mind, exactly? Keep in mind if we get caught performing them we're liable to look suspicious.

It doesn't have to be anything big - all you'd really have to do is give them something to think about. Make it harder.

So say you left weird notes with riddles that were like clues in various places all over town - places they would be likely to be found? Of course, in our case we would want them to point away from us - give them something to analyze that might actually make it more difficult for them.

( she smiles )

But if I think I can get away with it, I'd like to do something big.

Critter said he'd let us out a little early to search for notes - perhaps he would let me.........

( eheheheh... yeah oh god you really don't want to ask or know )

And we know Critter left notes pointing to Hanekoma... RIDDLES!! [He claps his hands together as an idea strikes him.] If they do figure out it's hunters doing this papery bullshit, who would leave riddles? GUNDAM TANAKA!!!

Ah! ( PERFECT ) See! That's the kind of thing I mean! ( You've got it! )

If you guys can manage to kill the Watcher too... I wonder if you couldn't fabricate a note of the last person investigated to give one of you an alibi as well... If someone like Miss Kirigiri claimed to have found such a thing, I can think of few who would doubt it's legitimacy.

Man, it's a two-layer plan: Leave notes that clear Hunters and implicate Prey while we can, then have Gundam take the fall when they realize it's bullshit! He's Japanese but that just means we gotta make Naegi or Kirigiri write them.

What else, what else?

We implicate other people we feel have special roles or are threats. I'm already dropping hints about Ciel, but I'm not sure how long they'll take to take hold.

And has anyone noticed anything odd about Clara? Does she seem to chat with more people than most of the prey? [ I.e., does it seem like Clara is getting to know them in order ti identify them later? ]

Yeah, it's... it's odd. I wanna say she's the Watcher for some reason but that wouldn't make sense, she'd complained early on about having no role. Maybe she's just social by nature. A lot of women are like that. Or maybe she's trying to be like Kanaya and Ciel to make up for abstaining all the time.

I don't think we can make a move on her without expecting payback from the Doctor, though. For all that talk of peace, that man isn't one to cross. If we're going to target Clara, we need to target the Doctor first.

So, we're framing Gundam and setting up Ciel. Which means people Ciel would protect, like Joshua, are probably off limits.

And if we want to take suspicion from Prussia, it might be time to target other countries. Not America. Spain, though?

We could target someone else. Beat.

[ She hesitates. ]

And Holden. I don't want you at any more kills if we can help it. Understood?

[He sours and stares at the ground, chastened by the alpha female. Tight, curt nod.]

Got it. I know I've been - been - been - I should take it easy for a while. If Ada's eliminated then out of the hunters we've got left... one people are gonna suspect most is probably me. And I just - don't wanna kill anyone either except maybe that asshole who didn't care about her even though she was PREY for Christ's sake but PEOPLEWOULDKNOWITWASME!

[Wow, that tree he just slammed his fist into is not ever going to be the same again, is it?

He holds his own hand and winces at it.]

......Understood, Ms. Carter.

[ Sharon hesitates, then moves in to give him a hug. Holden is breaking. She's seen it with agents in training and prisoners before. In agents, they could be let go before the damage became permanent. But Holden was more like a prisoner. He wouldn't have any relief from this. Any reprieve. ]

I'm sorry, Holden. If I'd known she was important to you, I wouldn't have poisoned her. I'd have chosen someone else. Anyone else.

But you're right. You should take it easy. If we want to bring Akane back, we have to win the game. It... might be best if you didn't know what we talk about here. Tell Critter to vote randomly on your behalf. That way, you won't know. You won't have that weight to bear.

[ And he can stop fucking up by telling people what the fuck he knows. ]

[He shakes his head forcefully, biting his lip, trying to act like he doesn't need the comfort the viper is providing.] No. No, you did - did - the right thing, and I didn't - didn't want to ask when - when all the other hunters got their goddamn families here and I just wanna get back to mine - shouldn't have made friends here, thought it'd protect me but--that was stupid, all it does is make me have to be phonier and I can't even do that right--

[He groans deeply.] I thought back then we were gonna win for sure, you know?

We still can, Holden. And it's good that you're making friends. It'll help you escape detection. People are less likely to kill people they know. Just don't think about how you'll kill them later. Because you won't. Tell them you hope we can all survive, because you do. The truths don't contradict each other, you just have to remember when different ones are in effect.

[He rubs his eyes.] Augh, keeping all these facts straight is gonna kill me... [That'd be a lot more funny in any other situation.]

It's okay for it to be getting to you. Hang out in the graveyard and mourn. Play dumb. It's normal for people to be forgetful in situations like these when they aren't used to the stress. Just take your time before you answer.

And if you get caught, look to Gundam or Ciel as if trying to get a clue as to what to do.

I... Yes, I think I can do such a thing.

Thanks, Kirigiri. You're the best.

I knew I could count on you Miss Kirigiri.

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