the general - night four.

[foxhounds]

THE GENERAL night four Instead of waking up in the jungle, you wake up elsewhere. This is the square where The General comes to decide what to do, and Ivan patiently sits on a bench, though she's as impassive as ever to what's going on. Each of you has your own foxhound who's barking happily to welcome you back. They'll help you find who you choose to hunt tonight. After all, you're saving them. You have a little while to discuss who you'll hunt tonight, but don't linger too long, since you only have until dawn. rulebook character statuses profiles All night votes will be due 8/22 by 5PM EST

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[hopefragment]

[Woah, she mad.

Except Hinata feels the same way. The only thing that keeps him from screaming himself is that Gi-ne kind of scared him a little with that intensity.]

H-hey! Gi-ne!

[meatery]

[Let Gi-ne handle the shounen rage, Hinata, saiyans pretty much defined it.]

There's no way it's a coincidence! One of them betrayed him!

[Is it betrayal... Well, it feels like it to Gi-ne.]

[hopefragment]

[Hinata just screams into his pillow when he's alone in a cottage for the night, so yeah, Gi-ne's got him beat. But for now, he's apparently got to be the calmer one.]

Yeah, I know. I know! Either Greed or Fuuma is the real Fox, or one of them shared his identity with someone else. Either way, it's one of those two. No way it was Matt, he wouldn't even share the Fox's identity with me.

[meatery]

No, I don't think it was Matt... So it was one of those two and they- they told Yamato for some reason? Or Royce?

[Seems to still believe Royce about Yamato having a gun.]

[hopefragment]

No, I don't think that's it. I don't know if that sword actually did have a gun. All the arguments I presented to Melborn, he couldn't refute. It's Yasusada's personality that got him executed, nothing else.

I think someone must have lied to Melborn, and I... have a feeling it's got something to do with his relationship with Jason Todd. I think one of those two has to be the gunsmith. The way Melborn and Todd were acting after Hakurei was killed... it's suspicious.

[meatery]

It's Royce.

[She seems pretty certain of it.]

Someone he always trusts and someone he's sure will be dead by the end of the night. He may as well have confessed outright.

[hopefragment]

I... don't know about that. I don't know what reason Yasusada would have to lie at that point.

Then again, I still think Kurookano was lying about shooting Hakurei. I don't understand it.

[WHERE DO THE LIES STOP.]

[meatery]

So we wouldn't all go after his friends? Maybe he thought it'd get them in trouble if he confessed.

[hopefragment]

No, it definitely makes his friends seem more suspicious that he refused. Even with how messed up he is, I... think I believe him. About wanting to protect them.

If you really think it is Melborn... should we target him?

[asked... carefully. He's not an idiot, he can see Gi-ne likes him.]

[meatery]

No! [A little too quickly. Come on, Gi-ne, you know what the point of all this is.] I mean... I'd rather not.

I think it's him, but after Reimu and Orion I think he'll be a bit more careful about who he gives guns out to. So we can probably leave him be for a while, right?

[unrulyprincess]

But why was he giving them out in the first place?

[She's so frustrated!!!]

What a barbaric thing to do! [clarine, you guys are murdering people]

[meatery]

Well, if he really gave one to Shijima he was probably trying to protect her. She was one of his friends. I don't think he knew she'd go and shoot some random kid.

Yamato, though... Unless he was that mad about Orion sending everyone after Shijima...

[unrulyprincess]

... I do not believe Yamato was lying about not having a gun.

[She can't see why he would lie at that point. He was so...so resigned.]

In which case...why would Royce lie...? Or did he--give it to someone else?

[meatery]

... Well, maybe he lied so we'd have someone to vote for, like Sephiroth and his hunch.

[Not sure about that, but it's an idea.]

[unrulyprincess]

He sounded so sure...but I suppose he could have lied.

[She really doesn't know anymore--she's not so good at telling when people are lying to her.]

[meatery]

I think he was telling the truth. But maybe he's playing me, it's hard to tell here.

[unrulyprincess]

... I shall believe in you, even if not in him. He has certainly earned himself the ire of the other swords, if nothing else.

[meatery]

Then maybe we should leave him alive just to keep their attention.

[Just in case they are going around at night killing people (Tsurumaru not included, of course).]

[unrulyprincess]

Perhaps...any small amount of suspicion may drag him into an execution. I would not wish that upon anyone, but...

[SACRIFICES MUST BE MADE]

[hopefragment]

...Yeah. Unless he gives a gun to someone who suspects us, I... think it does more good than harm, at this point. If our objective is to-- to outnumber the rest of the participants.

But we have to win.

[He pinky-promised Rei they'd go back together, so everyone has to come back to life.]

[meatery]

I don't think he suspects me, at least, but it's hard to tell with that bad attitude of him. But a few repeats of the Reimu thing could probably help us. [Please shoot more shrine maidens, Royce.]

... We're going to win.

[They have to...]

[hopefragment]

I don't understand why anyone would use a gun in the first place, unless they had really, really strong suspicions of someone. Like... if a gunsmith were to give me a gun, I'd probably give it back! Or throw it away.

[That's because you're a weenie, Hinata.]

[meatery]

... Well, we can talk about that later, Hinata. [Murderson, you need to man up.]

But maybe there's something in the rules that says they have to use it if the gunsmith gives them a gun.