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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[meatery]

[Gi-ne takes a deep breath and does seem to calm down. After bottling that up all day, she just needed to get it out of her system.]

Right... You're right... We are not going to lose.

[unrulyprincess]

No...we mustn't.

[even if it feels EVEN MORE DAUNTING NOW.]

It...helps, I believe, that they do not know he i--was one of us.

For his sake, and his memory, let us keep it that way.

[meatery]

They can probably guess he wasn't really the Fox... [What with the whole not announcing his role thing.] But Matt might just think he was being a middle man for the actual Fox, if we're lucky.

Urgh, this- it makes me so mad! Not even in trial, just in the middle of the night like that!

[unrulyprincess]

Yes... that is what I shall hope as well.

But then... something went very wrong, over the course of the night. I still do not understand what happened to him. Someone killed him, but...why?

[And there's that nagging thought in her head about what Hector said...that it looked like Orion was being the aggressor.]

[meatery]

... Maybe someone ran into him and- and got scared. People can panic in situations like this.

[Paranoia in the dark, man.] But I really can't believe it was a coincidence.

[unrulyprincess]

Not after all that happened yesterday's trial...correct? That is what you are getting at.

[Yeah, she finds that hard to believe as well.]

[meatery]

Yeah. None of us are seriously suspected for days and Orion keeps a low profile... but then the second he does something like that he ends up shot in the night? No way.

[unrulyprincess]

...But if one of them is the Fox, we must act quickly and yet...tread very carefully.

[meatery]

Is there anything that would make us suspicious if we killed Greed or Fuuma? I mean, even if they find out Orion was one of us, that doesn't help them pick us out of a crowd. They'd just know how we knew they knew about him.

[hopefragment]

Fuuma... I don't know if it's general knowledge that he was told along with Matt. I have reason to know because Matt told me about them both, but...

Greed reacted just like Matt did. He's the one who's the easiest to guess from inference that he could have been told.

[meatery]

So you're the only one of us who "knows" while everyone else just has to guess. If we kill Fuuma then it might just look like bad luck... Greed might make it look a little more because of Orion.

[hopefragment]

Yeah. Matt's smart, so I don't... want to give him any reason to suspect me.

[Also it would hurt his chances of getting Daredevil-senpai's panties.]

I don't know if anyone's going to believe in bad luck, anymore. If we really want to try to preserve the lie that Orion's not one of us, then... I don't know if it's a good idea to kill any of them tonight.

[unrulyprincess]

But what if one of them is truly the Fox...? The more people we remove from the game, the greater chance there is that one of us will be discovered.

[hopefragment]

Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I'm just... trying to look at the bigger picture.

Like, what would be the consequence if Orion were... discovered to be a general? Or do you think people would just assume he's a Foxhound?

[Petting his dog when she perks up at the mention of foxhound. Hi pup.]

[unrulyprincess]

Do you think he shall be...? I believe if people believe he had a role, they would assume it would be as a Foxhound... but we could always bring up that he may have been a--mediator, of sorts.

If the Fox does not state the truth first.

[meatery]

Well, besides making Orion look good, is there any reason to keep the lie up? None of us are going to use it unless we pretend to be the real Fox that passed info on to him.

[There's an idea... a dangerous idea...]

Though I guess if they find out it'll make the guy who shot him look good.

[hopefragment]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to think about... I can't think of a reason to continue it other than... for Orion's reputation. But once we win, everyone will know this was for the best, so...

[God, this is so hard. Where are his classmates to support or deny his conclusions. He needs more dangans.]

I really don't think we should pretend to be the Fox, not after what happened to Orion.

[meatery]

Yeah, we don't want to give them any reason to have the real Fox check us out. [Which may have happened to Orion.]

Orion can't be hurt by a bad reputation now and none of us were known for being friends with him. [No guilt by association.] Hell, maybe thinking they got one of the big, bad "Foxhounds" will cheer everyone up a bit.

[Gi-ne, you're murdering them.]

[hopefragment]

Yeah, that's true.

[Even though it was really hard to pretend like they hadn't a connection to dear, sweet murderuncle.]

And who knows, Lightray might... take care of that for us.

[meatery]

Well, hopefully. He seemed like a good dog. We'll give him tonight.

[They're all good dogs best murderdogs]

... Ah, by the way! You talked to Matt then?

[hopefragment]

Yeah. I've talked to Matt every night so far, I'm pretty sure he trusts me.

[Haha.]

He wouldn't tell me who the "Fox" was, which was fine, but he did feel comfortable enough to tell me that Orion spoke with him, Greed, and Fuuma at the same time. I haven't gotten that much more information from him, but I'm going to talk to him again tonight and see if there's anything else that's come up. Anyone who might have come forward to him.

More than anything... I want to make sure he knows I'm a good option for people to go to if something happens to him.

[Hinata's voice is going a little... weird... as he talks about this. A little monotone? It's very strange.]

[meatery]

Hm... Make sure you don't let on that you know the "Fox" is dead then. Just in case. It's good that you're making yourself trustworthy, at least, but be careful.

[She... does pick up on that monotone.]

... Okay? You'll be careful, right? If you're too pushy about it, he might try to get the real Fox to check you out.

[hopefragment]

Yeah, I know. That's why it's taking so long, and that's why we can't kill him just yet.

As far as he knows, I'm just a normal high school student.

...It's boring.

[meatery]

[This is concerning.

This is really concerning.]

... Well, boring can be better than exciting sometimes. [It's safer.] I think... you've been doing really well, Hinata! Everyone trusts you, it's great...

[hopefragment]

...Yeah. They do. Even Fuuma, I don't think suspects anything about me. As long as we eliminate the real Fox...

[ah, but if that happens, that'll be boring, too...]

We'll see what happens.

[Maybe leave him alone for a bit and see if he reboots? That might help.]