night two; hunters

[gamehead]

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.

Unlike the previous night, this night you know 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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Comments

[notyetlost]

[Poland wiggles around in her embrace uncomfortably, trying to pull away. He was familiar enough with Prussia from the previous night that he wasn't ducking behind bushes to talk to her, but they were definitely not on a touchy feely basis yet. ] I can't just not talk to Lithuania.

That's more suspicious than any secret conversation we had.

[unadorned]

Then talk to her-- Christ, him, in public, alright? You're also laying suspicion on him when you do that sort of thing in private, then everyone else finds about it.

[notyetlost]

We totally didn't know that no one else would want a private conversation! I mean, like seriously who wouldn't want a private conversation when there's like some chewed up corpse in town hall, we have to play some crazy game of psycho clue, and everything you say is being broadcasted over the radio?

It's not our fault everyone's dumb and didn't take advantage of it.

[unadorned]

Then you need to keep in mind it was the dumb people who voted for you on account of that conversation, because you were an easy target.

It's something we all need to look out for.

[notyetlost]

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure after what happened today, Lithuania won't be dragging me into his bedroom to talk unless it's a total emergency.

[It's just his luck that Poland would get the vote when it was all Lithuania's fault.]

/jacks, if that's okay?

[tsunneverset]

As much as I'd hate to side with Poland of all people, it's not as if we were made aware that our identities of those in private conversations would be released to the public beforehand. Still, we could use this to our advantage if we ever need to meet during the day, although we should still only reserve that for emergencies.

In other news, I'll likely need you two to verify tomorrow that America and I know each other quite well and are close allies, and therefore it's not suspicious in the least that we would want to talk privately.

[notyetlost]

[Poland shrugs, flapping his wrists.]

If anyone asks I'll just say you're making out.

[tsunneverset]

I would rather be executed than hear those disgusting words come out of your mouth ever again.

[notyetlost]

Wow jeez, England. Just because you're like star crossed lovers and everything right now doesn't mean you have to go the Romeo and Juliet route.

What a total drama queen!

[tsunneverset]

Everything you just said made me want to vomit into my mouth a little. Also, if you ever use one of my</> most beloved playwrights in such a disgusting way again, I will cut out your tongue and feed it to you.

[notyetlost]

Eh, whatever. As long as you don't cook it first.