Day 8

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[ Ronald McDonald certainly seems excited today. ]

Hey, great job! The show was a big hit, and everybody did their best yesterday, or at least were entertaining about doing their worst! I'm lovin' it, so why don't you all go ahead and have a vote?

VOTE DISTRIBUTION:

Aku: 0
Ronove: 0
Sophie: 0

Everybody else: 1 each

…except those three!

However! For Aku, Ronove, and Sophie, you do have a second chance! An encore, if you will! I will offer a Hotel Pass to one of the three of you. A Hotel Pass can be played instead of a vote, and can be used on any player in the game, including yourself, to be sent directly to the hotel. It can be saved for later voting cycles, but can't be used after the votes have been calculated. No takes-backsies, kids!

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Comments

[unexpectedboner]

Hope we don't end up blowing a fuse... So you're organizing this now?

[keybroad]

Unfortunately, yes, I am. Do you have anything to add, Jumpei?

[unexpectedboner]

Good luck?

...Oh, you mean datawise. No, not yet. Things got kinda crazy, fires and all.

[keybroad]

Yeah, that's what I meant, do you want to add stuff onto this board. [Very dry about all of this.]

I can certainly understand the fire making stuff crazy. That's why I'm doing this in the first place. In case of additional fire. The pegs should melt together into shapes that we can still read.

[unexpectedboner]

[not even being a dick just. tired]

Huh, that's pretty clever. I was just thinking you were trying to reclaim your lost youth or something, so that's good, since I don't know if I've got it in me to deal with any more freakouts today. --There's still people I can trade a vote with, right?

[keybroad]

[don't worry, Jumpei, Lotus has her nervous breakdown a couple hours later when you're not around]

Yeah, there's plenty of people. You could vote for Clover while Snake votes for you. Or you could trade with Nijimura. Or other things. World's your oyster.

[unexpectedboner]

[he will be happy to skip out on that one]

Huh...okay. ...Sorry I'm not so great at the strategy for all this. You're taking on a lot of responsibility keeping track of everything.

[keybroad]

The logistics for who votes for whom is actually pretty easy. I didn't learn nothing in Silicon Valley. You know what's hard? Talking to people.

Actually, that reminds me. You're kind of close with Mari after the first round, right?

[unexpectedboner]

The talking isn't so bad. It's the getting people to listen that's tough.

...But anyway, yeah, we're buddies. What's up?

[keybroad]

[She clams her lips slightly before coming out with it.]

Mari is taking what happened to Zelda really hard. Right when it happened she was, and I quote, trading "votes" and "bartending techniques" with Dennis... [A shadow over her face. Lotus obviously has opinions about what that means and is gravely concerned.] She's having trouble "smiling through" everything that happens. Since you know her better, maybe you should help cheer her up.

[unexpectedboner]

Oh, wow... Yeah, sure, I'll check in on her. She's a good kid, she doesn't need to be getting into that kind of trouble.

[keybroad]

Thanks, Jumpei. It makes me feel a lot better knowing you'll be doing something instead of me.

[unexpectedboner]

I'm going to ignore the second half of that statement and instead feel emotionally bolstered and/or heartwarmed. ...Thanks for letting me know. Sorry I've been out of it today.

[keybroad]

[Raising hands.]

Look, it sounds bad but I'm also just saying, I wasn't doing the best job, she deserves better. Like you. You are better.

It's been such a long day... Most days here feel like a week, but this felt like a week with five insane days in it, you know?

[unexpectedboner]

I-I don't know that I'm "better," I wouldn't say all that. ...Sounds like a jinx, if nothing else.

[picks at the bandage on his left palm, just nervous movement]

And yeah, it's like a week of endless bomb-filled puzzle rooms. I think I was hoping stuff wouldn't escalate this quickly...

[keybroad]

Oh my god. No. No...

Please don't tell me there will be actual room escape puzzles.

[unexpectedboner]

I sure as hell hope not. If I never have to see another 3D puzzle it's gonna be too soon.

[keybroad]

What if groups of us are in a puzzle room together but we still get graded on how much each of us actually did to solve the puzzles...

[unexpectedboner]

As if group projects aren't bad enough on their own... Honestly, I don't think I can think about stuff like that right now. Today's been rough enough.

[keybroad]

I guess we should focus on the bad stuff that's actually happening.

...

You have any idea how that hotel pass is getting used...? Anything at all?

[unexpectedboner]

I don't even know which of them won it, since that'd really affect who it was used on, I think. I guess, just try to think about whether the person is vengeful enough not to use it on themselves...

[keybroad]

What's weird is... it hasn't been used yet, even though it probably has been given out. So I think that person has to be saving it. Maybe they're waiting for a round when someone they like has earned zero votes?

[unexpectedboner]

How would you know it hasn't been used? They won't just reveal it with the rest of the votes? I mean, if they don't use it or trade it for a vote... It's not like they can take it with them.

[keybroad]

Ohhhhhh.......... I thought that's what "directly" meant... like, instantly...

[IT WILL TURN OUT IN THE FUTURE RELATIVE TO THIS TAG THAT JUMPY WAS RIGHT

ALWAYS TRUST JUMPY!!! DELEGATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO JUMPY!!!]

[unexpectedboner]

Maybe they can just say don't reveal it until later, so they can seem sneaky. You never know, after all.