Graduates of Hope's Peak - Danganronpa Mafia

[Cazero]

Sorry for the delay.
Daily life phase 6 ended. The game is not over. Please wait for narration.

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There are only four of you left. Soon, there will only be three.
You try to live a semblance of life, waiting anxiously for the fateful annoucement to happen. Talk of escape died out a long time ago.
The hope you cling on is the meager hope of not being the next.

"I know you can't see it being underground without windows and clock and everything, but it's getting late. All of you, go to sleep. I promise the locks of your rooms are secure."
"Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite !"
"Ho, and before I forget : the cafeteria will go under renovations starting tomorrow. I took the liberty of changing your schedules. No loitering !"

New regulation : Hanging out in the cafeteria is punishable by death. When this regulation is instated, all players who planned to do it will sulk instead.

Daily life phase 7 starts and will end in about 24 hours.

Hangouts :
Sulking : CaoimhinTheCape, Zelphas, Athedia, Snowblaze

[Athedia]

Snowblaze who did you protect? And doesn't this mean if someone isn't blackened than they 100% will be tonight? So it is just another 24 hour wait til we lose and see which one of y'all is the wolf?

[Zelphas]

Well done, Ultimate Manipulator. I'm guessing you have a power that lets you alter results from investigations you disrupt, which is why CaoimhinTheCape got inforation that the killer was hanging out in the cafeteria.

I don't know if there's a winning move for White Team here, so I'm going to put all my cards on the table and go from there.

The fact that my investigations cannot be disrupted is only my passive ability. My active ability lets me investigate past crime scenes during Daily Life to gain new information. I figured the game would be over tonight, but I still investigated bladescape's crime scene, mostly to assuage my own curiosity.

Bladescape's killer was hanging out in the cafeteria. EDIT: Lounge, I meant lounge, this is what I get for trying to be dramatic

With 100% certainty, Snowblaze is the last member of the Black Team.

[Athedia]

But that means Snowblaze would have likely *protected* the person they were targeting tonight. Otherwise why didn't one of us die? Why aren't we in investigation stage?

Also what makes you so sure Cao isn't the killer and they weren't lying?

[Zelphas]

I don't have an answer to the first one, honestly; we had a similar thing happen after the Ultimate Assassin died, so it might be that they can't kill every single night.

As for the second question: I wrote my information wrong, because I was writing too fast; I'm sorry, that's really confusing. The killer was hanging out in the lounge, not the cafeteria. Only bladescape and Snowblaze were in the lounge on the night bladescape died.

[Snowblaze]

I protected Athedia, and have confirmation I blocked the Ultimate Manipulator. Let's see if I can do that again, shall we? sips wine

Also Zelphas, I was not hanging out in the Cafeteria when bladescape died.

And I've been treating Caoimhin as clear due to getting results from crime scene investigation implying bladescape's killer wasn't sulking. I don't know how valid that is at this stage though.

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Right, that makes more sense. So Zelphas is the last wolf. Cool, got it. If we actually make it to F3 I will put together a case that isn't "he's falsely accusing me", since that argument isn't going to convince anyone who isn't me.

[Athedia]

Interesting, quick question why protect me? I did point out that the only way we get this far is if White Zelphas/Snow had not been blackened and Black Snow/Zelphas wasted time killing me instead of the other one.

[Snowblaze]

...yeah, sure, fine, my bluff wasn't actually likely to work out.

I can only protect players in my hangout location, and can't target myself. So it was you or Zelphas. And yes, wolf!me would have killed Zelphas, but wolf!me doesn't exist so who she would have killed is irrelevant.

I figured that a hypothetical wolf!Athedia or wolf!Caoimhin would kill me over Zelphas because he implied he'd been blackened by the BCH vote and therefore my choice would make no difference in those worlds, and in wolf!Zelphas worlds protecting you over Zelphas is obviously the correct choice.

[Athedia]

It isn't Cao's fault but it is really frustrating playing this with someone unable to contribute at all. We can't form any conclusions and it kinda actively (though again I get it is not on purpose) sabatoges us.

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Actually just in case Cao is the Black Team member and is just forgetting to attack someone and one of you can do weird stuff like I dunno 'create a hangout' (just brainstorming potential powers) I am going to say that I am planning to hang out in the lounge next daily life. The chances are like 1/100 that that is a real power but I don't want it to be and then be really frustrated withmyself for messing up.

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Wait I am the only one we have confirmed was blackened right? Like we know I was. I did the whole not voting thing specifically to get blackened. So I am the only one we know who knows what the message the narrator sends is.

So first, who can answer the question, which word did he italicize? That looks like this btw

[Snowblaze]

Can we please not do that? It is a bad idea for town to claim who has and has not been blackened atp, since if wolves don't already know it's basically telling them who they need to kill in order to win.

Also, sure, I'll hang out in the Lounge. Though I doubt it'll be relevant unless we have another no-kill phase.

[Athedia]

Well Zelphas already claimed he was and Cao should have been last time and I already am so I just want to figure out once and for all if Zelphas is lying.

[Zelphas]

I can understand thinking I implied it, but I never claimed that I was blackened.

I'll keep sulking, I think; I don't think following the two of you into the lounge is the best way to foster any trust, honestly.

[Athedia]

I mean kinda sounds like you don't know the answer.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Sorry again for the absence, skimmed the last few posts but it was another miss on the kill?

I wasn't blackened so if the person who was claimed wouldn't we be down to a 50/50 of who to vote between? Is there any chance of a player who is already blackened getting that status again?

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and do you want me at the lounge or sulking?

[Athedia]

You have to have been blackened though. One random sulker is blackened at the end of every daily life phase and you were the only sulker.

[Cazero]

Daily life phase 7 has ended. Please wait for narration.

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"A body has been discovered !"

You find CaoimhinTheCape's body laying in a puddle of blood, right next to his room's door. He was killed brazenly and openly, putting his faith in the lock of a door rather than in calling his friends, and you weren't there to see or prevent it.
Monokuma is already present.
"There is no point investigating this time, so we'll be going straight to the trial. But that won't be a problem since you already know who did it... Or do you?"
Monokuma laughs as he opens access to a secret elevator. He gesture you to get on, and you follow. It leads straight to the courtroom.

Monokuma takes the judge seat.
"Let's do this final trial right. We're gathered here today to avenge the death of CaoimhinTheCape."
CaoimhinTheCape was a member of the White team, the Ultimate Performer.

You are the Ultimate Performer
As a daily life (night) action, you can cancel the actions of everyone in your hangout group. If you do, everyone in your hangout group will learn your identity and the name of your Ultimate talent.

"All three parties here are considered suspect. If the true killer is identified by the other two parties, only they will be executed."
"But if the two innocent parties, if you can still call them that, fail to unanimously identify the murderer, they will be exectued instead."
"Once the execution is carried out, the surviving parties will be freed from this facility, as per our agreement."
"Either way, I'm proud of your group. You went all in and managed to rack up the maximum bodycount possible ! Your performance didn't go unnoticed."
"In fact, today's proceedings are being retransmitted live to the Ultimate Despair in person !"
The sound of pre-recorded cheers fill the courtroom until Monokuma silences them with a wave of the hand.

"Let the final trial's proceedings begin !"

Trial phase 7 has started and will end in about 48 hours.

[Snowblaze]

...right, guess we're doing this. Zelphas for obvious reasons.

I do have a thousand words to write and ideally quite a bit of other work to do in the 2.5 hours until I sleep, so casework is a Tomorrow Snowblaze Problem.

And yes, I will actually do said casework.

Athedia, if you have questions I will answer them at some point.

[Zelphas]

All right. I am a colossal idiot.

I was blackened for wrongly voting out Batcathat. Going off of that, if Athedia was actually blackened and Snowblaze was wolf, the game would've ended; there would be no trial.

That means that the last wolf has to be Athedia.

My last few accusations probably did enough to paint me as a wolf, but, Snowblaze, I promise you I'm not; I'm just bad at the game

[Athedia]

Oh dear yes blackening. Back to my question Zelphas, which word was in italics?

[Snowblaze]

...huh. Okay.

I am not blackened. Which I think given that both other living players are claiming to be blackened makes me mechanically clear unless one of them is lying, and if they're lying they're a wolf and therefore I'm not.

Which is, uh, not how I was expecting this F3 to go.

I will say I am against the italics question from a meta point of view - this game shouldn't be about "I can prove I'm town because I know the secret word that only townies know" imo. Taking that to its logical extreme makes that basically unwinnable for wolves.

Anyway. At the moment I have to jump through significantly fewer mechanical hoops to convince myself of wolf!Zelphas than to convince myself of wolf!Athedia. But given the bastardy nature of this game I don't think I can justify making a decision based entirely on mechanics.

[Athedia]

Snowblaze you may answer that as well.

Other questions being how many words and what action does our darling chimera faced tormentor do afterward?

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Our narrator knows my plan and didn't say I couldn't do it. Also do you have an ability preventing blackening?

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I will answer select questions people have of me as well, and I might suggest isoing my hints I left

[Zelphas]

I... honestly have no idea what you're asking, Athedia.

[Snowblaze]

I haven't been blackened, and therefore couldn't answer your question even if I didn't object on principle.

I don't have an ability that prevents being blackened, but tbf the only times I could have been blackened are the BCH vote (which was actually Zelphas if he's town and if he's wolf was presumably BCH's self-sacrificial play) and last night phase because of sulking.

My current working theory is that the latter is because the randomly-blackened player could in theory be someone who was already blackened and hence it wouldn't have an effect. Unfortunately Cazero is not commenting on whether or not that could be the case. I guess I can't reasonably be annoyed at the wolfsiding narrator for wolfsiding... fortunately I am not always a reasonable person!

Athedia, honestly given that this is F3 I don't see any reason for keeping your claim secret so my question is "explain everything, please?"

[Athedia]

I don't want to reveal anything yet until I have more info on the both of you. I figure whatever I can reveal will give both of you explanations to spin for why it must be the other person.

Points are more in Snowblazes favor at the moment since all signs point to me being protected the first night. And weirdly enough I believe Snowblazes claim that they weren't blackened than Zelphas's claim that they were. But Zelphas if you answer my questions, I will reveal my Ultimate proof that I am white team

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Of course not answering my questions means I will vote for you Zelphas.

[Zelphas]

I don't know what you are asking. Clarify.

Not that it matters, since you are the wolf and so voting for me is your win condition right now.

Here's all the information I have:

I am the Ultimate Detective. My abilities are as I have said before: my investigations cannot be disrupted, and during Daily Life I can investigate past crime scenes and gain new information.

I was blackened by the Batcathat trial.

When I investigated bladescape's crime scene during the next daily life, I was told that his killer hung out in the lounge. Since bladescape and Snowblaze were the ones hanging out in the lounge, I jumped to the conclusion that Snowblaze was wolf, and called them out as such. My theory at the moment is that the Ultimate Manipulator uses other people to kill--Snowblaze, did you try to protect CaoimhinTheCape last night or the night before?--which is why I got the read I did.

Now that there are three of us left, either Athedia is lying about being blackened but is also somehow a White player, or Athedia is wolf. The second option seems to be infinitely more likely at the moment.

That's all I have.

[Athedia]

Zelphas, please answer the question about the blackened status message. If it is correct then I am more than happy to immediately and without any doubt from others reveal my role and what clues I put down regarding it. Right now your reluctance to answer only re-enforces Snowblazes points! As stated before the narrator had the opportunity to tell me it was against the rules and given I was informed that Monokuma can't be guilty of breaking his own rules *and* that text from our private chats can be used to get us caught for rule breaking, I think it is within bounds for me to ask the question about blackened message.

If you are White team you should want to answer this question trust me please. I am trying to give you a chance to be cleared! I know for a fact one of the two of you is a wolf and currently the decision is you kill me and white team loses, or I have to basically flip a coin on which one of you to trust and gamble everything.

So I really don't know how clear I can be. If you are actually blackened, just answer the bloody questions. If you give the correct answers I will reveal my role with undeniable proof it is my role and will actually vote.

One reason I suspect you btw Zelphas is you seemed to understand what my role was. At least you did back when I was taking certain actions.

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I want to point out that I don't need to give you this chance to go answer the three questions I asked. It would be easy enough to agree with Snowblaze and execute you Zelphas. But I have enough doubts that I don't want to just bite into that target. Also, if I was the wolf the last person I would kill is Cao!

He is the best option to keep around since he isn't super active and at this stage the wolf doesn't need to do anything and they can win!

[Zelphas]

Okay, I think I've realized my confusion, sorry. And I may be still confused.

There were no italicized words in my blackening announcement. blackened was bolded, however.

If you're wolf, Athedia, killing CaoimhinTheCape was the best option: Snowblaze and I were set up to be at odds last night, so killing Cao gives you a good chance of voting off another White Team member and winning.

[Athedia]

Thank you. I believe Snowblaze is the last member of the Black team and once I get one tiny clarification from our beloved narrator I will share why.

[Snowblaze]

Zelphas, no, I did not try to protect CaoimhinTheCape in any recent night phases. It wasn't an option, because my power only works on players hanging out in the same location as me.

Also results of any use of your investigation-of-prior-crime-scenes power other than the bladescape one?

Athedia, explain.

@Monokuma, if a wolf hypothetically asked you for the text of the message players receive when blackened, would you give it to them?

[Cazero]

@Monokuma, if a wolf hypothetically asked you for the text of the message players receive when blackened, would you give it to them?

"Maybe. Maybe not. After all, I did say that I would clarify the rules, didn't I?"
"However, I won't solve the game for you. If clarifying a rule tells you who the killer is, that's not in the cards."