the deduction game.

[soulsurvivore]

WHO: unfortunately, you
WHERE: ???
WHEN: late night 104

[ Today started off like any ordinary day. At least, until the sky flashed and turned blood red.

Wherever you are, you'll find yourselves pulled into a new area. It's like a Big Top, with a single spotlight shining down, practically blinding anyone who dares even look in its vicinity. You all find yourselves rooted in your seats, unable to move, unable to escape whatever this may be.

A deathly pale young man dressed all in formal blacks forward moves as the spotlight does, hands held wide. He adjusts the snake wrapped around his shoulders and takes you all in with black, empty eyes. The smirk reveals he seems to find whatever evaluation he made as … lacking. ]

Welcome, my friends. I have a show for you all today. A test of your will and intellect, such as it is.

[ From above, a gilded box falls, dangling by a gold chain. ]

A simple magic trick, and like most, can be disarmed with a touch of intellect.

I have merely taken a few of these flocks who have lost their way.

[ He gives a bow, and pulls a sword that glitters in the spotlight, and taps it against the glittering box. The metal sings. ]

Tell me, dear friends, if today's show will be of blood or of triumph.

[ And with that, you are all pulled away . . . ]


[ rules | rooms | roster | return | revenge | results | reveal ]

Comments

RULES

[soulsurvivore]

These are inherently known ICly (except for the ones that don't apply IC).

1) You have two hours max to submit your guess. Failure to participate will punish your flock and another flock at random. Also your sacrifice dies, so like. You know.

2) You may ask up to three questions to deduce your Sacrifice's identity. They must be yes or no questions only. If you ask a question that is not a yes or no question, your question will be forfeit. You can only ask one question at a time.

3) Speed is a factor here. Everyone knows that if they finish last, they automatically lose. OOCly, we will be going by submission timestamps for guesses.

4) Everyone instinctively knows that the Sacrifice they're guessing on cannot be from their own flock.

5) You get one guess and only one. Failure to guess correctly will result in the Sacrifice perishing.

6) Most importantly, if you do not play the game straight, you can be punished.

7) Ping Juri and Nishi in the game alerts channel whenever you make an action or submit a question / guess.

ROOMS

[soulsurvivore]

Lily
Bluebell + Edgelord
Daffodil + Warden
Clover
Thistle
Rose

ROSTER

[soulsurvivore]

Charon
Ananke
Lethe
Minuet
Crescendo
Tyr
Lupin
Bombay
Yata
Azdaja
Angie
Belle
Levi
Your Name
Biscuit
Tart
Muffin
Kozo / That Kid
Lyra
Spinel
Zenith
Cygnus
Edgelord
Warden

RETURN

[soulsurvivore]

[ post-game pre-results hangouts go here ]

[survivaltricks]

[HE'S HERE, JUST. . . VIBING]

[seems to be in a good mood, tho]

Suck on that.

Re: RETURN

[featherduster]

[ Looking like a man who overcame an anxiety attack ]

Re: RETURN

[rugpull]

[carrying stormys corpse dont worry about it

also looks like he might have fucked up

dont worry about that either]

Re: RETURN

[stirtheblood]

[Looking pretty smug and pleased with himself.

But also looking around to see if anyone else is in worse shape]

Re: RETURN

[endsjustified]

[he's just sitting very still, hands curled into fists on his knees, waiting]

Re: RETURN

[electricflock]

[looking around and counting faces]

Re: RETURN

[dadinside]

[looking half asleep standing on his feet]

Re: RETURN

[wants_the_phd]

[she is not only looking Okay, but actually much more Okay than she's looked in like a month. Her skin has a healthy glow to it! There are no longer dark bags under her eyes! She's standing up straight and moving without any obvious crunchiness! WOW]

Re: RETURN

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Constantly scanning the crowd, alternately stuffing his hands in his pockets and crossing his arms ] ]

[debug_mode]

[she's trying not to preen too much, but Your Name can't hide the subtle smile until her folded hands.]

Re: RETURN

[heavyliesthecrown]

[Shaken and as pale as a ghost. He's unharmed, though.]

H-How is that fair?? They guessed correctly!

Re: RETURN

[finalbows]

[ alive and well. holding the water bottle sacrifices were given ]

Seriously, though, what is this, the THIRD time?

Re: RETURN

[leonheartedly]

[alive and in one piece, yay]

Re: RETURN

[psynchroneyes]

[ Oh yeah? Well Spinel walks out of their room carrying THREE wholeass corpses on her own. They're not mega bloodied or anything, but they are very dead and Clover shaped.

She sets them down somewhere—gently, on a nice patch of grass—and the air around her is like. pissed af. ]

Re: RETURN

[aididitmyway]

[idk if anyone wants lyra

but she got carried out by spinel and she's like super dead]

REVENGE

[soulsurvivore]

[ y'all done heckied up. ]

Re: REVENGE

[allreturnsarevoid]

[The demon reappears in front of Lily.

In his arms he holds Lethe. The body is slightly twisted as if crushed by a powerful force. The blood is gone from him.

He sets Lethe at their feet.]

I'm afraid one of your own has died.

But you have won this day.

I offer you recompense for the pain this one has suffered.

Tell me, what will you have done to Daffodil, who has failed you in their duty?

RESULTS

[soulsurvivore]

Your winners are Thistle (fastest correct completion), Lily (Demon's choice for their decision to forgive Daffodil), and Bluebell (most insightful questions).

All winners get memory coins and Edgelord gets booze. Lily gets apricots, Bluebell now has cranberries, and Thistle gets bananas. In addition to that, the storms will have stopped, and whatever repairs they have made to the fence over the last few days will have fully integrated into the pasture's fence, fully fixed. Lethe will have also revived without needing any healing or anything, though it will be painful.

Because Lily chose forgiveness, there is no punishment for the losing teams, Clover and Daffodil, aside from what they already received.

THE FIRST PIECE

[rugpull]

[AT SOME POINT AFTER THINGS DIE DOWN

THERE IS A RUMBLE.

If you look to the sky, you could swear you just saw something long, and massive--a snake flying through the sky.

You hear words.]

The time will come.

Where we will All become One.

The Time is near.

[the forever snake disappears.

THISTLE receives an artifact:
]

REVEAL

[soulsurvivore]

Re: REVEAL

[allreturnsarevoid]

Curious indeed. I hadn't expected such a turn. But ah... surprises are still a delight.

Do you not agree?

Ah, my dear summoner, I believe our engagement is at an end.

[Deep in the shadows, something uncoils and uncoils and uncoils and uncoils and uncoils. Then finally slithers away, dropping Patches down to the ground, ass up in the air.]

Farewell.