Crywolf - Emerald

[outstandingbalance]

[chatting goes here]

Comments

[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.

[outstandingbalance]

[sighs at that, looking distant as she considers]

[cerealpunner]

[. . . oh come on, Baker]

Well, this is going to be fun.

[outstandingbalance]

Not feeling good about your odds?

[cerealpunner]

Not if we haven't knocked out any of the mice.

I've already been up to vote once and while people are pretty sure I might be one of the children, there's enough things floating around to make people suspicious.

Either that, or we vote on the other two and the mice pick Emerald off since I guess Emerald would be seen as pretty reliable by that point. Either way, last stop.