Crywolf - Emerald

[outstandingbalance]

[chatting goes here]

Comments

[cerealpunner]

It still isn't defensive necessarily. They started with the act, they didn't react to what you had to say. That says pre-planning. Which is more suspicious than a kneejerk.

Careful with how you term things because people who support them will use misuse of description to get them off the hook. Classic tactic.

[outstandingbalance]

I used the word I meant. To me, it feels defensive. They started on guard in a way that the other two teams didn't.

[cerealpunner]

I guess if you look at it from being defensive at your invite to talk... makes sense.

[outstandingbalance]

I do. In particularly compared to the other two teams.

They should have known they were going to have to talk to people.

[cerealpunner]

One problem: you revealed your hand here. If they're mice and you're children, they're gonna have their buddies target you this round.

[outstandingbalance]

Which is why that was in private, and you don't see me or Luna all over the public conversation.

Now... It's possible.

[cerealpunner]

Try "very likely".

And if you don't get targetted if Coral gets ousted... gotta say, it'll make me more than a bit nervous.

[outstandingbalance]

You think I'm stupid enough to draw this kind of attention if I was a mouse?

[cerealpunner]

I don't think it's that stupid. It actually makes you look more like a concerned and stubborn child more than a mouse.

What I'm saying is that if you're not a mouse, you made yourself a target if Coral is one.

[outstandingbalance]

I'm aware of that. It wasn't exactly the plan, but that's a conversation for another time.

Assuming that I'm around for it to matter.

[cerealpunner]

Yeaaah... and depending on what happens with you, Emerald could be in a pickle.

[shrugs]

[outstandingbalance]

That all depends who's in the next clue.

[cerealpunner]

If Coral's a mouse... Iolite, Tiger's Eye, you guys, and us all saw them as suspect and count for the four votes... so that's something.

[outstandingbalance]

There's more too it than that.

[cerealpunner]

Shhh... this is me trying to be the optimist after being the paranoid pessimist.

[outstandingbalance]

Your optimism worries me.

[cerealpunner]

In the "are you a mouse" way or the "how did you even survive to be in your mid-20s" way?

[outstandingbalance]

The second one.

[cerealpunner]

Talent's how, for the record.

[outstandingbalance]

I'll make a note of it.

[cerealpunner]

Uh huh.

Though it's probably a lie. Grueling drilling and training from Batman is probably the real answer.

[outstandingbalance]

If we do get eaten, Amethyst had private posts with everyone in this clue, with Iolite, Carnelian and Citrine.

That's who could have known where we were going behind the scenes.

[cerealpunner]

Guess Citrine had a change of heart.

[those votes, man]

[outstandingbalance]

Citrine didn't listen to start with, and brought up Amethyst in a thread with Peridot.

[cerealpunner]

Well... guess we'll see where this goes, then.