week 3 - weekend

[productions]

murder manor week three



saturday & sunday

22 players remaining.

This is a general mingle post. Please put your character's name, the time, and location in the subject heading of their comment. Players may also thread in logs, either posted to murdermanor or in a private locked journal post filtered to include productions.

This post will cover the weekend period from the end of trial Friday evening to early Sunday evening, when new incentives will be announced. No murders will take place over this time.

Setting & Rules
Private Conversations

Comments

I wasn't even trying! What did I reference?

[balzams]

... Of course.

[He should know better than to have that much faith in someone]

Well, I guess it's good that you're still using them virtuo-

Wait, what? What do you mean changes?

http://jem.wikia.com/wiki/Phyllis_%22Pizzazz%22_Gabor pizzazz!!

[throe]

It wouldn't be a game if I gave that sort of information away so easily, now would it?

Good to know!

[balzams]

... It's that kind of thinking that makes you suspicious.

I know you keep saying you're not going to murder someone, but maybe it's not that that I'm suspicious of.

You seem kind of... how should I say it? Above it all? You seem set on winning the game through pacifism even though there's no guarantee that you wouldn't be killed yourself, not to mention when you say things like that it sounds like you know something the rest of us don't...

There's no point in asking what, I know you wouldn't tell me.

[throe]

[ Her lips curl into a smile as she leans in a bit. ]

Let me tell you something about The Stingers. We didn't make our way to the top by being pacifists, as you so claim I am. We made it to the top with hard work. We're number one for a reason and that's because we deserve it. When people told us that it would never be, we didn't listen, and now we're number one with no one to tell us otherwise.

The rules never claim that all of us have to work together to win, just during the investigations and trials. It's a game, how you play it is what matters the most. If you want to follow the rules, you're more than welcome to, but just because someone tells you to act a certain way doesn't mean it's the only way.

[balzams]

... So do you think we can avoid it then? Surely everyone here must have enough sense to know that people will stop dying if they stop killing. Winning the game can't be the only way out.

But if you're out there to win, what do you think the winning conditions are?

Surely it can't be the last person standing. Eventually there will be so few people it would be near impossible to not be singled out during a trial. Even if you retire... somehow it doesn't seem like a victory. Even Annie, she played exactly the way they wanted her to because they backed her into a corner. There's no kind of game about that, it's blatant manipulation.

[throe]

That's the point of playing a game. If you tell everyone everything the moment it begins, there's no way of discovering anything on your own. It's fairly obvious that immunity and popularity are important here that there are obvious other ways of succeeding than being a culprit even with the incentive added on. Look at Susan! She's had immunity since we've started playing, she's even playing it in her own way.

Manipulation or not, we have to play the game. If that entails and entirely different approach, then so be it. I have as much of a right to win as anyone else does.

[balzams]

[It's surprising but that does make a lot of sense. Latvia takes a moment to reevaluate]

So is that how you plan to win? By popularity? I suppose that makes sense, they'd probably reward someone that helped boost their ratings so much.

[throe]

It makes The Stingers look good too. The Holograms and Misfits will have no idea what to do with themselves when we reach the top of the peak and they're still stuck all the way at the bottom!

It'll be a performance no one will forget.

[balzams]

I'm not sure if I should look forward to it or be worried for it...

But thank-you, I'll think about what you've told me.

Congratulations again on your immunity.

[And he starts to head back to his room to contemplate what could happen within the week]