GAME OVER (S██'s Palace)

[pointzeropercent]

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[metagame]

These are events that have happened in the past, right?

"Sou" likely didn't intervene out of fear.

[Hum.]

Did anyone else happen to catch a glimpse of a memory when you touched a card?

[beathollow]

I did. He was searching for the "Keymaster" card- the one I found.

[metagame]

[Atem shows his card to Mafuyu and everyone.

Commoner.]

Keymaster... Sage... Sacrifice... Commoner...

In the memory I saw, the Keymaster is "safest." [That word is doing a ton of heavy lifting.] Voting the Keymaster will kill everyone.

[beathollow]

That explains his urgency.

[metagame]

One piece of the puzzle.

Seems either only two die or all of them. What a terrible situation...

[beathollow]

It is. It really is. But- I want to try.

( to save them. )

[metagame]

I agree.

Acting as "Sou" has only caused torment.

[beathollow]

It has. We have to push back this time, harder.

[moodwrecker]

Yeah. He took the Sacrifice card from the person who originally found it and swapped it for a Commoner card. He said he'd take care of it, but he had a bunch of other Commoner cards... I bet he's the one who made Joe get the Sacrifice card instead.

[metagame]

Whoever set these games up are player killing scumbags.

[moodwrecker]

Yeah, no kidding. What's even the point of it all, anyway? Do they just get a kick out of watching people panic and die?

[metagame]

Very likely.

They separate people. Force them against each other. Press and press until they break...

[unweathered]

Mm. The sage card was Kai's. They thought he'd be the safest vote. There's no penalty.

[metagame]

I don't think that's the case. Assuming what Aubrey says is true, and if there was no penalty for voting for the Sage, then neither the Sage or Sacrifice would die.

[unweathered]

That's right. It was the safest vote for 'them'

[Or rather, their teal coloured friend]

At the end of the day, these games are designed to push people to choose 'survival' above all else.

[metagame]

Hard choice to make. A few or the many... Yourself or strangers...

In his situation, I would choose the life of the strangers over my own. Though doing so would cause another to die with me...

I wonder what would have happened if they could coordinate...?

[unweathered]

...I think he chose to save someone's life at the expense of another. Miss Pink said he swapped a 'sacrifice' from the person who had it for a commoner, then made sure it ended in that Joe's hands.

[Schneider thinks]

I would have done what he did, if one of my sisters were involved.

[finalmix]

But who would he care about enough to engineer a swap like that?

[ as far as joshua knows, they're all strangers, right? ]

[metagame]

He signed his life away to find his sister.

You don't suppose...

[unweathered]

He was looking for her as a child. One day his mother was pregnant, one day she wasn't.

[Kidnapped sister then]

He wanted to find her even then.

[metagame]

I guess he found her in the end...

[unweathered]

[ ... ]

...unless one of them wasn't actually a stranger.

cw: decapitation,

[finalmix]

[ after listening to schneider's theories, ]

Fear for himself, or fear for someone else?

[ a pause, and then he says it almost offhandedly. ]

Yeah, mine was of the consequences if they didn't vote. The collar apparently burns your head off your neck.

... I suppose in that case that's also probably the punishment for intervention.

[unweathered]

I wonder. If one person intervenes, does the whole group get punished?

[metagame]

We've had it easy then.

[Which means "Teal-Sou" is doing far more than he thinks. Maybe even the magenta one still has hope...]