So this has been a very bad day so far and I've been doing all sorts of things in the PMs. What I say now, is the product of some very deliberate thought and I want everyone to listen to me.
Right now, Jim and Toonyman are going at eachother's throats and I want you guys to stop it. At this rate, things are going to devolve into a mexican stand-off. Though the the idea of somehow politically outmaneuvering one's way into victory is appealing, I doubt anybody is actually going to win.
Let me give you a few end-game scenarios:
- Only two of us are left at the start of day 3. Our only choices are to NK eachother or to tech-kill eachother. Regardless, the survivors will almost certainly at this point have collected a bounty so mutual plasmabomb is the inevitable outcome.
- Only 3 of us are left at the end of day 3. This one actually does have some room for maneuvering into a victory. It's a question of whether two people will both plasmabomb eachother. If that happens, then the 3rd player will be the victor. It's still very Dicy though.
- Only 4 of us left. I see this as the best case scenario if we continue on this paranoid path. Trying to end up as a lone survivor probably is do-able, but whittling yourselves down to the last 2 is also a dangerous risk.
Of course, maybe some of you still think this is worth pursuing, I don't blame you. A chance is a chance, but let me say something that will quiet the ambitions of the more active of you. Last night there were 4 people who 100% without a shadow of a doubt killed someone. Those people were
Jim Groovester, Toonyman, Caz, and myself
Heydude6.- I targeted Juicebox with a mind-control ray and sent him at Iceytea because I didn't want him to kill me. I then used my night action to kill Iceytea, since I was expecting a shield to absorb Juicebox's attack.
- Caz killed 4maskwolf
- Jim and Toonyman both targeted Juicebox
- Either Jim or Toonyman killed webadict with an assassin bot and likely tampered with his corpse.
Now that I've exposed us, I think it would be stupid to try winning the traditional way. We can stop self-righteously trying to blame murders on other people now, and start trying to work together again.
That may sound a bit silly considering all the carnage that's been caused, but I honestly believe that most of us were trying to escape during day 2. Jim genuinely spent his money to call the ship, Toonyman compiled the list of bounty chains, and Luckyowl and Shakerag didn't kill last night. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough money so a fair amount of us talked about a potential need for a bounty claim.
Would you be willing to trust Caz to hand over money if they got a bounty?
I wouldn't mind being the sacrificial lamb in this gambit, but unfortunately the person with the bounty on me is juicebox, based on deudctive reasoning and assuming that no-one is lying. Juicebox is literally our least active player so I also trust him the least.
So there's a fundamental obstacle to the repair ship plan in that we need to open the shuttle bay doors for the ship to enter the station, but they can't be opened unless we hack the station.
To hack the station we need a hacking tool.
Maybe somebody already has one, but if nobody does, then we'd have to buy a Replicator to make one which is 500 KOR.
So we need to collect all our pennies, nickles, and dimes once again. Unused items can be sold back to the shop for half-price.
Or we can collect a bounty.
I had one as partial insurance against any kind of late-game shenanigans, but I didn't use it.
My bounty is on Toonyman, for the record.
Give me back my scanner if you haven't used it yet.
Is there enough loose change left for 500 KOR? Can we sell more than one tech in a Truce phase? We'll need to have some people sell their large tech items. Webadict seems fine with dying so I could kill him for the money without anyone needing to give tech up.
And due to a lack of communication (it is a touchy subject after all), all of us acted on our own to get those funds.
And now we have those funds. Today is our best chance of getting out of here peacefully. Tomorrow onwards, people will die and that money will be gone.
I'm not a fool though. Our actions have broken the trust of our teammates and have caused paranoia. Something must be done. This is what I came up with.
READ CAREFULLYCaz, Toonyman, Jim Groovester, and me
Heydude6, will give our 1000 KOR bounties to
Shakerag because he is one of the only two people who didn't kill that night. If he you have already bought some tech today, tell us what it is and then sell it (or sell your day 1 medium tech instead if you still have it).
This does two things. First, It disarms us and makes us much less dangerous. We are less likely to win the final showdown without tech and are therefore better incentivized to cooperate and be trustworthy.
Second. A large central pool of funds will allow us to better finance whatever plans we come up with, avoiding the problems on day 2.
Of course, even this is not enough. Here is the next part of the agreement and the part that you must listen to. If you do not give up your cash when asked to,and you cannot come up with a good explanation, then I will give my money to
Shakerag or
LuckyOwl and have them plasmabomb you tonight. Either you give us your money or you die with it. Carrying it into day 3 is not an option for us murderers.
Cooperation will be doomed by that point, but at least no one who's killed will have a chance at winning. So your best play is to try to make it out alive with us.
Is that clear? Once the money has been transferred, we can start discussing a new plan. I spent a lot of my day focusing on that as well. But we need to prevent the GMs from listening in on us this time.
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