But it's not a game for them, Lillia.
You can be useful! Being hard to notice has its advantages. Game knowledge is useful too, but if you want to limit what you give away to avoid ticking off the CGM I understand completely.

You've got all these fun virus tools somewhere in that big empty space. We're planning to play with them until the game breaks.

Lillia, see if you can break something right now.

The lives of fictional people don't matter much, but in order for this to be fun we have to play as if they do. So it wouldn't be fun if we just let a valuable resource like you slip away, but it would also stop being fun if this quest got too meta! So just tell us something like how to subvert the system, kill the CGM, row row fight the powa, that sort of thing.

>I'm not even talking to the writer right now but instead some people who have control over Perso- er, "Elvira".
Elivra, protest that even if, in some larger cosmic sense, this is all a game and you're being guided by outside forces, you're still a person! I mean, if Lillia is while incomplete, you should be, being... whatever you are.

(Actually, if you're both mechanistically / narrative unique in the group- Elivra as the PC, and Lillia as self-aware npc, that's something you have in common).

>I'm probably useless to you... I mean... I know a lot about this game if that helps?
That actually could help, a lot. Everyone else has been dumped in blind.

And even if you didn't know anything special, you have a unique advantage. If no one notices you, they can't vote for you. You're free to try stuff without the risk of reprisal or upsetting anyone.

>Plus I don't want to ruin your fun time! All the mysteries and games and stuff... If I ruined that it wouldn't be much of a quest would it?
You kind of want to ruin your own fun time. Puzzles and mysteries are nice and all, and so's getting to know people. But getting people killed for some sick whatever's amusement isn't fun. It was hard enough trying to make the best bad decision with the last vote. I don't know if I can forgive myself if I don't try to stop that from happening again.

Please, will you help me? You can be as real as you want to be. Maybe the rest of us were created for this game, but if you're right, you were born without a purpose, like a normal person. A normal person who can choose what to make of themselves.

...also you're a person who's cute.

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[You tell Lillia that it isn't a game for the characters. That each of them convey emotion in some way so that they almost feel real even if they are not.]

LILLIA: "Ah... Th-that's true! Oh no that's really true! This quest builds off of characters that all are essentially a new type of person with completely new characteristics... I wouldn't want that to go to waste! Um... But... it wouldn't be fun to spoil you... Um... uhh..."

[You bring up the fact that you don't want to break the game entirely, just to know a few things. And that Elvira, since she can see Lillia, can be her way to have a good fun time as well.]

LILLIA: "Oh alright alright! I give in! I'll help you out the best I can without ruining the experience for you... So... I'll be like a guide book! Kinda.. Um.. Is that right? Anyways, I'll give you hints and tips outside of the actual survival games!

Since this quest is so open and vague... It has a multitude of different endings that all are very different! If you'd like to know how you are doing on a current quest route you can ask me for Route Guidance. I'll tell you most of the endings I know without spoiling anything and give you hints on how to get on a certain route.

If you ask me about Elvira's Stats I can give you her overall accumulated stat count before or after death games in case you need it!

If you ask me about Friendship Advice, I can give you advice on characters you are struggling to get hearts with, b-but be careful! If I do that too much CGM will get suspicious and probably try to off those characters first! I'd say three hints is a good amount before CGM will try to off those characters... m-maybe?

If you have any other questions about the game you can ask me... and if they aren't bad I'll answer as much as I know! I just won't spoil each survival game so you can still have fun interacting with each individual and unlocking puzzles! I-if you want!

Oh! And I almost forgot! I-if you ever just want to build my friendship up with Elvira or talk about personal things... just have Elvira chat with me! Simple as that. Um... I hope this helps! Together we can beat this thing!! Probably. Is there anything you want to know now?"

Yes.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS?!

Also, can we unlock Extras like dinner recipes and commissioned art?

>Probably. Is there anything you want to know now?
Route guidance. Could we just see if we've started down or locked out any, yet? (We probably missed pacifist by not boycotting the vote).

Elvira's stats, of course!

>too much giving you magic foresight into other characters will make the GM suspicious
Yeah, we don't need spoilers on anyone, yet, I think. Wait until we got stuck with someone, or it's pressing we make progress with them.

Oh, and don't feel like you gotta talk to us all the time just cause you can peek back the curtain. I'm sure Elvira would be more than happy to.

>just have Elvira chat with me! Simple as that.
Sure let's do that too.

Initiate the chattening.

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LILLIA: "Right! Uh. There are a lot of people who are running this game. None of them are in this crowd though... Extras is a thing for later! But... there WILL be some content extras! Probably..."


[You ask Lillia to show you Route Guidance and Stats.]

LILLIA: "Elvira's stats include 1 Vitality, Agility, Luck, Cunning, and Intelligence. These are gathered from gaining a full heart with someone.

Currently, you can still achieve the True Hero, Family, Elvira, and The Truth endings. At this point in time the True Monster ending cannot be done. There are a few endings that can't be activated yet or I don't know about yet..."


[You decide to let Elvira chat with Lillia for a bit]

ELVIRA: "Thanks again for your help. You seem like a good person."

LILLIA: "OH uh yeah sure no problem! I'll do anything just to help a genuine friend! haha... And I mean you did come back so you must be a friend!"

[You gained another full heart with Lillia]

Wait, we voted for someone to die, doesn't that mean True Hero is out the window?

I vote we go for The Truth ending.

Thanks for the info!

>And I mean you did come back so you must be a friend!
Of course we are! I like you.

Um. I should probably get to know some other people before calling it a night. Do you want to come along? I don't know if anyone else will notice you, but why be lonely?

>[Stats] are gathered from gaining a full heart with someone.
>You gained another full heart with Lillia
Out of curiosity, which stat did that increase? (I would assume different people up different stats. I wonder which she does).

>>715511
> Wait, we voted for someone to die, doesn't that mean True Hero is out the window?
Apparently not? I guess heroes can still get people killed. (Or even a hero can't prevent all deaths, here).

And I don't think we should decide on any ending yet, till we understand which actions move us on and off their paths, by experimentation.

I vote we go for whatever ending results in the death of the CGM or its controller.

Can we know what characters puts up which stat?

Ask Lillia if she knows anything about herself. What she likes. What she dislikes. Are we able to give presants?

Let's not get spoilers for any of the routes or characters right now and see what we can do on our own. We can safe it for when we are struggling.

Let's go find a group of new people to talk to.

>>715598
We should do this.

Also, we shouldn't forget our sidequests, Let's see if we can get supplies for the mute kid, he may know more than he looks.

We should also return to the bathroom and check on the whimpering stall. Maybe we can get another sidequest.

If possible, we should also ask Lillia what completing sidequests can do, Maybe it can give us a big increase on hearts with a character, or on our own stats or some other mechanic we haven't seen yet.

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ELVIRA: "Of course we are friends, I like you a lot after all. I'd like to know more about you if that is alright? Like your likes and dislikes?"

LILLIA: "Of course! Um... I really like black hair...and the color purple is my favorite! Oh and um I hate white and grey... ER! Not that it doesn't look bad on you though! I-it's a really great color! Honest!"

[You decide to question Lillia about the Stats Mechanic as well as what characters bring up what stats and what stat just was brought up from gaining a heart with her. You also decide to question what doing sidequests can do and if it will improve character's heart counts.]

LILLIA: Oh! The stats? They are pretty simple really! Each character has a stat that they are much better in compared to other stats. Their overall stat poll brings up their best stat when you befriend them. I can't really tell you which ones bring up which stats as that would be really complicated... but there will be something to help with that later! As for side-questing, yes that does increase a character's heart count if you do it right! Oh! Um... I'm flattered you want to know which stat I brought you up by (It's luck by the way), but the second heart doesn't give you a stat. The first and third heart does, however, the second heart allows you to share your inventory with another character. So now you can look in mine! Yay! A-anyways, I can't really tag along... for reasons... but you really should go hang out with other characters! I'm an easy heart to get hehe!

[You decide it should be time to move onto another group. Where should Elvira go next?]

>>715884
Compliments and/or happiness make her dissolve? That could be a challenge for romancing her, if that trend continues.

>So now you can look in mine! Yay!
Peek in her inventory.

>A-anyways, I can't really tag along... for reasons...
It's okay if you're shy. We'll talk later.

>what do next
I think we should look for writing supplies for the boy we met before. If we don't see any wandering around, we befriended the barman, and the wait staff might have access to notepads for taking orders and such.

Guess it is time to talk to Emoki and the children.

>>715884
>Not that it doesn't look bad on you though!
Are you trying to pick a fight? I'll kick yer teeth in m8.

Let's go chat up that big group of people in room M, with any luck one of them will be awful enough to get us through the next round of voting relatively guilt-free.

>>715897
>Compliments and/or happiness make her dissolve?
At least we'll know it's working. Besides, it's still unclear what she's really reacting to.

Go find your next victim to elect to immediate past president of the Being Alive club in Moki's squabble of kids.

Do we have access to the numbered floors to see who could be there? It doesn't look like we know where everyone is.

If not, the big group of unknown people on floor M sounds like a good idea.

CGM 2016/04/13(Wed)17:55 No. 716332 ID: 72e53d
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[It appears that both your inventory and the numbered floors cannot be accessed right now. These appear to be features for the next games. Either way, you decide to head over to the larger group in the lobby. Approaching them appears to be a big of a fight going on.]

LONG HAIRED BOY: "You want to say it again? You're really pissing me off."

GREEN HAIRED MAN: "I'm only stating facts. You won't get by in a game if you try to keep introverted and quiet the whole time~ especially not if you are some shrimp like he is."

LONG HAIRED BOY: "You're one to talk."

[It appears the two are fighting. The red headed woman sighs rolling her eyes, while the boy with the purple jacket appears to be clutching something nervously his eyes focusing between the two.]

>>716332
The red haired lady seems like she might have her head screwed on tight, ask her who these folks are and what they're fighting about.

Sidle up to the nervous guy in purple. Psst- whatcha got there?

>>716335
Also ask him what just happened

Ask the ginger what happened.

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[You walk up to the ginger and lower your voice down to a whisper, nudging him a little]

ELVIRA: "What are you holding onto? Oh and um why are they fighting?"

???: "um... it's a ring. See?"

[He shows you a wedding ring quickly then holds onto it yet again. He seems a little skittish around you. He readjusts his attention to the fight.]

???: "The green haired one... Toxic I think... He said something that infuriated Firin."

TOXIC: "Look if you want to scrap we can scrap here and now, all I'm stating is what I believe to be the facts."

FIRIN: "Scrap? The hell are you some sort of sissy posh? It's fight dumbass."

TOXIC: "Well I seem to know more about the word then you in general, considering I actually have some battle scars while you're just a kid with anger issues."

[Firin kicks Toxic in the gut getting super pissed.]

Let's break up the fight, get in between the two of them.
Comment on how this is just what the guys running this want us to act. Everyone is having a rough time right now, no need to make it worse than it already is.

RKO both of them at once. They can't fight each other if they're both fighting you!
Or, y'know, go break up the fight the normal way.

"GUYS. Stop fighting. There'll be plenty of opportunities to kill each other later, fighting like this is wasteful."

Also, ask him what Toxic had said that had infuriated Firin so we get clues to what makes him pissed if we decide to pursue his friendship later

Stop the fighting before someone gets hurt. Then ask questions. What did Toxic say? Why is the ginger wearing a wedding ring on a string.

Before we -DO- get into breaking the fight, I suggest we consider that all of our stats are really low, And if Firin's morals aren't quite high, We might just get decked.

>>716381
If we're gonna stop the fight, I think it has to be done with words, not physically breaking it up.

"Do either of you think you're impressing anyone with this posturing? You're sure not getting anywhere with each other, and it only takes a quick look at the faces in here to see you're not doing too well with your audience either.

If you really want to fight about what playstyles help you here, it sure doesn't seem like this is one of them."

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[You attempt to break the fight up by pushing the two of them out of the way. However, since Elvira has 0 strength, it doesn't hurt either of them when you push them. Instead you kind of just get in-between them until Firin let's go, squishing their faces.]

ELVIRA: "There! Now listen, there are plenty of opportunities to die in a DEATH GAME, so let's try to keep the fighting to a minimal okay? No need for anyone to get hurt, and your fighting isn't impressing anyone either."

[Firin seems to want to say something, but holds it knowing Elvira is right. Toxic simply laughs and nods a little.]

TOXIC: "And who are you exactly?"

ELVIRA: "Elvira is my name. Now, what caused this fight to happen?"

FIRIN: "He pissed me off."

ELVIRA: "Stunning."

TOXIC: "Ahem, I merely commented on how his friend, er Esa was it?, is not fit for a game like this. He simply wishes to stand back and stay quiet, where in a game like this making allies and enemies is the way to go."

FIRIN: "You sound like a complete jackass, not only that but you were criticizing him for not wanting to talk about that ring. There's nothing wrong with it you asshole."

TOXIC: "Someone is defensive."

ELVIRA: "Enough. Quit biting at each other it won't lead to anything."

[Firin is growing generally more pissed off while Toxic smirks laughing at his attitude. Esa appears to be watching from afar, holding his ring.]

Do you any of honestly think anyone is made for a death game?!
Firin, breath for a minute and think for a spell. His comment might have been unnecessary but it wasn't insulting nor did it warrant this reaction.
Toxic, what's with the eye patch and why are you instigating bro? I understand you don't have to listen to a word I say, but could you please consider other's feeling before saying things?

>>716595
If someone were made for this game they'd have to be pretty messed up. (Ignore the irony of that statement)

Distract them with conversation. Ask the guy about his eyepatch. Comment about the seeming epidemic of heterochromia.

Staying back and letting all the talkative, social and combative idiots kill each other/ get killed is a perfectly valid option, really. In fact, it may be worth noting that, as it is impossible to vote for a person you havent met yet, players who refrain from being actively social, while giving no reason to attack them in-game, are likely to survive longer. If toxic is going to spout game theory, he really ought to take that into account.

But of course If he were as wise as his smugness suggests, he would have though of that already. Perhaps he has some other game he is playing at?

Ask Firin about his hair. Ask Toxic if the bandage on his eye is from a "scrap". Ask Esa why he doesn't want to talk about the ring. Where did that other girl go?

CGM 2016/04/16(Sat)19:25 No. 717118 ID: 72e53d
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[You try to calm the two down with conversation asking them questions. Esa appears to stay at a comfortable distance, and the girl is leaning against a pillar not seeming to pay attention or care.]

ELVIRA: "Nobody is made for a death game. And nothing says Esa has the wrong idea of not interacting with anyone. What makes you so sure that he isn't capable on his own?"

TOXIC: "Hahaha, oh that is cute! There are people made for everything my dear, and I am one of those who is a survivor. I do whatever I can to come out on top, which is why my gang, the Raven's Claw, is one of the most notorious gangs where I come from, and as leader, I keep to it. I was merely observing a detail I found, I want to have fair competition in a place like this, not pushovers."

FIRIN: "I'll push you over you little.."

ELVIRA: "Easy. What's your deal? He isn't being all that bad."

FIRIN: "Being smug is a trait that I find un-resourceful. Those who can't offer anything to me or the people around me are as good as dead meat."

ELVIRA: "Guh.. this isn't getting anywhere. Here, let's calm down and talk, get to know each other better instead of being pissy and getting no where. I'm Elvira, let's start with you Toxic, what's the deal with that eyepatch?"

TOXIC: "Hmhmhm. A good question indeed. As mentioned before I am the leader of a gang. We had a pretty big goal to take a princess hostage and demand the Duke money for her back, however, as it turns out, she was pretty crafty herself. She used a shard off the ground to cut her bindings and successfully rid me of one eye. Unfortunately she got away, as I was pretty much blinded by blood."

FIRIN: "Kidnapping. See? Plenty a reason to be rid of him."

TOXIC: "Come now, the past is the past and this is the present. I am useful in a place like this in spite of my past actions, therefor, should not be wasted."

ELVIRA: "You don't have to be smug about it, but you really shouldn't go off criticizing others. Now Firin, what about you? Your hair seems interesting enough to start with, that and you are another of the people in this game with heterochromia."

FIRIN: "My hair is this way cause I like it this way. What the fuck's wrong with that? And as for that, isn't it obvious? They are pulling unique and interesting people into this game to see how they fare against each other. Heterochromia is interesting so they pulled more in."

[It appears Esa and the woman will not budge and will probably need to be talked one on one.]

Now Firin were you not just criticizing Toxic for judging Esa for being quiet? Maybe judging him by his smugness is being a little arrogant?

(can we try to sound less condescending? I didn't mean for us to be so obvious in breaking up the fight through distraction.)

You'd both do well to avoid making enemies, the goal of this game isn't to kill people, it's to avoid being killed yourself. (Maybe we shouldn't say this? It might be best to avoid telling others our strategies for winning... Whatever.) So where are the both of you from?

>>717193
He seems more than a little arrogant but at least he is defending a friend (?) At this point it probably escalated beyond that.

Ask then how the game went for them. Esa was the only on from the group before the game so maybe it would be a good idea to know what masks they were if we end up beeding it for another game.

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ELVIRA: "Wait, Firin, weren't you just criticizing Toxic for judging Esa?"

FIRIN: "He is cocky about it. I am kept to myself for the most part. I know what I consider to be valuable and what isn't, I just don't express it."

???: "So you're a hypocrite."

[The woman walks up, apparently listening the entire time.]

FIRIN: "No I am not."

???: "Sure you are. You just admitted to it."

[Toxic snickers. You decide to move the conversation.]

ELVIRA: "Well... either way, it's best not to avoid making enemies. Maybe we could all just be making friends? Actually a topic of interest is that you all were in those suits right? So then how did each of your teams do?"

TOXIC: "Haha~ Poorly. Mine took forever."

???: "Good all things considering. Though your team finished before mine did I'm pretty sure."

FIRIN: "I was the first out."

[Firin says it proudly, standing high and mighty above Toxic. The girl rolls her eyes.]

uhhh... Ask the mystery lady who she is?

> He simply wishes to stand back and stay quiet, where in a game like this making allies and enemies is the way to go.
Not necessarily true. Remember, you can only vote for people you know. The less people who know you, the safer you are in elimination votes.

...although there's a limit to how effective this can be for anyone who doesn't have a magic ignore-me aura like Lillia.

>>717944
If you were all from different groups, maybe you should compare the problems you had to solve? It works to everyone's advantage to try and understand our captor better. Insight there could literally be a life and death matter.

>>718015
It would also give us an insight on the teams who freed them depending on which masks they were. Ask who was which if they wouldn't mind talking about it.

And might as well as the girl about herself. She doesn't seem very friendly though.

Ask them the specifics of what their teams did for insight on those groups. As the women who she is.

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[You decide to ask the girl who she is, but she cuts you off before anything]

???: "Classified. You can't know and neither can anyone else."

FIRIN: "That's stupid. What do we call you then?"

???: "I don't care."

TOXIC: "Hmmm... how about Scorp?"

SCORP: "What? That's stupid. Where did you even get that?"

TOXIC: "Cause your attitude stings like a scorpion!"

ELVIRA: "Hehehe. Scorp will work. Anyways, you all were masks right? What did your teams do anyways?"

[Esa walks up hearing them talk about the teams and decides to be a part of it.]

ESA: "Ours was a riddle to unlock the Bunny Mask... Firin was in it."

FIRIN: "A riddle that Esa solved seconds after the game started. He's really intelligent."

TOXIC: "Better than my group I'd say. In order to unlock the Raven Mask, they had to spill out all of their dirty secret fears. Very useful in my case because I did not have to do that. Hmhmhm."

SCORP: "Mine was simple. They all just had to say each others name and offer a bit about themselves. Like a kindergarten show."

ELVIRA: "I see. Did everyone on your teams seem alright? Nobody too afraid or suicidal or anything?"

[They all seem to pay that last comment no mind. Firin speaking up.]

FIRIN: "If they were, I didn't pay them any attention. That's just unresourceful."

Hey Toxic did a boy with socks over his hands say anything? We had reason to believe he was a mute, so I'm curious how exactly he revealed his secret fear.
Also Scorp did anyone share anything worth mentioning?

Wait, why did two of them have a riddle? What was the bunny riddle?