Crywolf - Emerald

[outstandingbalance]

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Comments

[cerealpunner]

... okay, I've just had two teams tell me I'm suspicious because I've already been up to vote.

I don't even get that logic.

[outstandingbalance]

What two teams?

[cerealpunner]

Carnelian and Iolite.

[outstandingbalance]

That's interesting.

[cerealpunner]

I know I said people could view it that way, I just didn't expect to be right.

[outstandingbalance]

Still feeling optimistic?

[cerealpunner]

... well, I don't think Emerald will be winning the game. I'll be surprised if the mice don't take us out for being too obviously children. But hey, we'll find out what the other losers have been up to.

[outstandingbalance]

Any parting thoughts you want to leave behind if you're so sure you're going out?

[cerealpunner]

If you're really actually mice? I gotta say: you got game.

If you're not: good working with ya. Sorry for the trouble of suspicion.

[outstandingbalance]

I'm touched by the sentiment, but I meant on the teams who haven't been in a clue yet.

If you really do get eaten, that tells me something valuable. It means I can absolutely trust you.

[cerealpunner]

Assuming you're not a mouse.

... Iolite, you guys, Japser, Citrine... you haven't been put up to vote yet. Out of them, I suspect Jasper for the same reasons I suspected Coral. Iolite fell into the thought of the first round votings having merit, so that makes me suspicious. And you know I suspect you for vague reasons. Citrine's not been overtly suspicious.

Personally? I think Peridot's been pretty suspicious. But you seem to be taking their side in that.

[outstandingbalance]

I wouldn't say I'm taking their side. I thought to start off they were making mistakes that didn't feel like mouse mistakes. Since then... their behavior hasn't been beyond reproach. I'm having trouble pinning them down.

I might have a better idea about that after this round though.

[cerealpunner]

If it helps, some of my talk with Jean involved him going with the idea of using this safe game to bend the rules, push limits and experiment around with the game in case another bad one of its kind comes along.

Not sure what that does for you, but that's what he had to say when I straight-up told him that I found it unlikely that he was making those big mistakes on accident.

So could be children poking around because they can. Or could be mice.

[outstandingbalance]

...I'd believe that of him.

[frowning at that]

[cerealpunner]

. . . okay. How come whenever I think it's the end for me, it's not?

[outstandingbalance]

Plot relevance.

In this case, the mice wouldn't want to eat from the clue unless they had to.

[cerealpunner]

And they throw doubt on the one team that's been basically determined to be a sure-fire child.

Nice.

[outstandingbalance]

Will you at least ask me something, if you're so suspicious.

[cerealpunner]

I've been suspicious throughout the game.

I gotta say, Natasha, I figured Emerald was in trouble back when you pulled that move with Coral. But you're still here, Coral's still here, and Emerald's still here. That just doesn't sit right when it was that aggressive a play.

[outstandingbalance]

Strange, because it sits pretty right with me. Amethyst looks too suspicious to eat. Emerald has been in a clue. Coral... well, even if I was wrong, they've been in a clue too.

Iolite, on the other hand, looked safe and hadn't been in a clue. It was a good choice. The mice aren't stupid.

[cerealpunner]

Amethyst would only look too suspicious to eat if Coral is a mouse.

[outstandingbalance]

You're missing the point.

Amethyst has played aggressively. We pushed hard with Coral. We've got private posts with every team left in the game, and a couple of them who aren't. It's pretty clear that we've been trying to influence the course of the game. You don't get rid of that team unless they're too much of a threat to you—you keep them in the game and you make their activity look suspicious.

And as I just pointed out to Coral, Citrine put a lot of legwork into making Amethyst look suspicious already, well before we were even a team on the table.

[cerealpunner]

Considering Iolite was asking me about my thoughts about Coral and Amethyst being in an alliance just before they were picked?

Not very convincing argument there.

I don't need Citrine to make me suspicious of you, I have been since the start. You coming out of the gate aggressive actually set you up so you could use this kind of tactical argument later when people start to suspect you.

Now... I'm willing to say you still might not be mice, but that leaves me in a lurch because Iolite was taken out just when they were apparently digging into something.

[outstandingbalance]

[sighs]

Let me ask you something.

Why would I come out so aggressively about Coral if I were a mouse?

[cerealpunner]

You mean besides a ploy so you could ask this same question later down the line?

You're trying to get people to vote against Citrine, but out of the two in the clue with you, I would have said Jasper is the most suspect since they haven't been doing much of anything.