cfuw 142: limbo.

[cfuw_shepherd]

[you are locked in a small room underground with no air conditioning and several TVs with video feeds to the game.

enjoy.]

Comments

[meteorstorm]

[ shrugging ]

It's not the first time I've been wrong.

[runstowardsfire]

You were right about some things.

[meteorstorm]

Clearly, if you're here now.

[runstowardsfire]

Unavoidable, given the sequence of events that followed the first round.

[meteorstorm]

There's such a thing as being too helpful.

[runstowardsfire]

*shrugs* It's the way I play. And I get annoyed by the kind of questions and answers that result from this sort of scenario.

[meteorstorm]

Even if it casts suspicion on you?

[runstowardsfire]

Put it this way, if I ever go, "I get triggered by people accusing me of murder", you'll know that I've lost my mind or I'm acting.

[meteorstorm]

Good to know. And if I say it, you'll know I'm telling the truth.

[runstowardsfire]

You've been accused of murder?

[meteorstorm]

Let's just say I suspected you because I know all too well the art of playing nice to throw off suspicion.

[runstowardsfire]

. . . You thought that was me being nice?

[Maybe two years at camp did sand down a few prickly bits . . .]

[meteorstorm]

[ nice is relative when you're already a jerk ]

Mostly cooperative, then.

[runstowardsfire]

But I've played the game before. There's no point in letting new people have the wrong impression of the game because that's not fair.

[meteorstorm]

It puts you a step ahead of some people.

[runstowardsfire]

Yes, it might.

I wish people would listen though--it could be very much worse.

[meteorstorm]

One of those games where people die, correct?

[runstowardsfire]

Yes.

. . . I came closer than I would have liked to panicking when the Shepherd threatened to kill people. I should have known that it was an idle threat.

[meteorstorm]

There's no real way of knowing whether or not this Shepherd would. They're already lying to us; there's no reason they wouldn't lie about that, too.

[runstowardsfire]

. . . That sort of thing is the kind of uncertainty that drives people mad. *lowers voice because you have a loli with you*

The kill games are always separate from the safe games, in my experience. It might be a pre-condition or a setting of the game. Or the kind of Shepherd we have.

[meteorstorm]

[ hopefully your not!goat partner is keeping her occupied ]

This Shepherd didn't seem to care about following any preconceived rules or whether or not they're causing additional problems.

[ like my loli and her lack of a toy goat to cuddle ]

[runstowardsfire]

According to the rules of the wolf game, the Shepherd wasn't exactly out of line. Just annoying.

[Wants her necklace back but grrr . . .]

[meteorstorm]

[ he probably hasn't even noticed what of his is missing yet :| ]

I can think of a few more accurate words to use but that's probably the safest one to use in present company.

[runstowardsfire]

Yes. We can channel that anger into more productive things.

[One of the few benefits of wolf games is that she hears less of people's unvoiced thoughts and swear words.]

[meteorstorm]

Which, currently, is to try to not go stark raving mad in this place while we wait.