Mini 2167: Illicit Substances Mafia (Game Over!)

[Bell]

April has given them a hard time.

Please don't lie.

[zMuffinMan]

not today, which is what you said

[Bell]

Their very existence gave them a hard time.

[zMuffinMan]

ok you got me there

[morph the cat]

This whole game has been hard.

I feel like our day 4 fit the flavor pretty much perfectly. everything we thought we knew about the gamestate turned upside down. paranoia. confusion. trying to help rebuild some semblance of a functional town, every little bit built torn to flinders sometimes by our own hands due to unbridgeable chasms. and over it all float a couple of confirmed town who are too disconnected from the game at this point to ever be able to get down into the weeds. And maybe being down in the weeds would actually make things worse.

[Secret Tunnel]

I think I’m reaching that point of sync with them that I just get it

It’s part of why I’m okay with sticking around because I know they want no part of it either and I get their read flip on Bork because it feels so off to me too.

Pedit
Far out man

[Bell]

I think my town WIM really hurt town harmony this day phase tbh.
I could have gone about this better.

[morph the cat]

you basically asked me who i'd want to be around in ELO and proceeded to totally ignore it

I think you should vote us since you don't want muffin elimed. A Bell wagon is not going to happen.

[zMuffinMan]

i'd self-vote to get out of this game but that would ruin my perfect voting record

[Bell]

Somebody do the thing.

[Secret Tunnel]

Ok VOTE: Muffin

-innocentvillager

[Bell]

Somebody who is not already voting muffin do the thing.

[Tammy]

Vote Count 4.9

Day Four!

zmuffinman (3):

secret tunnel, bell, morph the cat (R-1)

bell (1):

Remilia Scarlet

Not Voting (4)

: The Bulge, zMuffinMan, Maid Cafe,

April Ludgate can't post, vote or be voted today.

With 7 votes in play it takes 4 to send to rehab.

Deadline:

Friday, October 30th at 5 pm

Countdown:

(expired on 2020-10-30 17:00:00)

[morph the cat]

This is so gross.

We know muffin's flipping town.

[morph the cat]

I think I’m reaching that point of sync with them that I just get it

It’s part of why I’m okay with sticking around because I know they want no part of it either and I get their read flip on Bork because it feels so off to me too.

Pedit
Far out man

This post bothers us, ftr.

[morph the cat]

Bell

From meh to great meteor from space, how pissed will you be if we break the bargain?

[Secret Tunnel]

Then clown us first, like I said. We’re just going to keep going in circles.

[Secret Tunnel]

The bottom line is all of us are just going to keep saying “I’m okay with x person” then giving in to paranoia and it’s going to be continuing until the game ends because we’re all too antsy to draw lines in the sand

Bulge you probably do need to chime in and do things to break this cycle

[morph the cat]

It's mindboggling that this could be nth dimensional chess on muffin's part.

[Secret Tunnel]

IV said it could just be scum muffin who didn’t want to drag the game out.

[Nachomamma8]

Darkness fell. Temperature dropped.

The world turned to clay.

The day that we had by the beach two hours earlier now seemed like a distant memory as the world around me became much more sinister. Weeds on the ground stretched towards my feet, trees began to droop and reach out to me with

erratic claymation motions as if I was transplanted into the world of Robot Chicken.

I took my time walking through the street, focusing hard on not allowing myself to be chased off the sidewalk by malevolent flora and attempting not to break laws in excess of

"tripping major balls in public".

I felt okay, but I felt afraid.

"Buck, be careful - you don't want the

UPCD

to

see

you acting

weird.

"

Weird

? What was

weird

?

Was I weird?

Every car that looked vaguely like a Crown Victoria, Dodge Charger, Ford Explorer became police vehicles - I saw

POLICE emblazoned on every door and a siren on every roof.

Every light became blue and red. It was too late for me to be careful because the world had turned against me. I fought every instinct and bit my tongue so that I didn't scream for help - Squeegee, who I was so close to a moment before, was continually scanning for the villains that could derail our college careers.

I don't remember the next hour and a half. I am told that it took us an hour to make a walk that should have taken 20 minutes, and that our original plan of taking a shuttle home was derailed because Squeegee and I didn't trust moving vehicles. I do remember making it back to University Ave. - the clayvision had disappeared at that point and I finally felt like I found my way to someplace that looked like home, and the intense feelings of stress and paranoia that took over my brain function melted away. I went to reach out and hug the woman standing in front of me, but Squeegee, in a brief moment of clarity, yanked me back and smiled at the police officer that was

unknowingly saved from my embrace.

Then there's a gap in my memory again - I remember standing calmly in line at Hallowed Grounds (tiny student coffee shop above the main food court),

humming with a pastry in my hand.

I also remember Squeegee standing in front of me,

screaming

- I also remember

screaming

for some reason and now suddenly wonder how this moment never got brought up in my next three years in college (

"hey, are you that guy who lost his shit in Hallowed Grounds?"

) or ("hey! can I have a free beer? i was the person who was trying to sell you the danish when you started

screaming nonsense

and had to be dragged out of the store by a bunch of random dudes."). I also wonder how the

frat bros made it to bail us out before the cops came

- University of Chicago has the

largest privatized police force outside of the Vatican

(as they are VERY fond of saying), there was the attempted hug cop outside, there were security guards in Bart Mart across the street from us, and still that

ragtag group of Alpha Delta Phis managed to organize and save two very conspicuously high men)

?

I remember sitting in the kitchen, looking at the clock. It was 8:30 PM and two of my friends were discussing whether they should call an ambulance for me - we'd been

VERY

drunk together

MANY

times, so this alarmed me. My tripsitter reiterated that

I couldn't go to sleep or else I might not wake up.

My pledge father, the only member of the fraternity taller than I am, sat down with me. "You'll be OK." he said, and I could see in his eyes that he meant it.

My tripsitter looked at me again. "Try to say up until 2 AM, OK? That at least gives 12 hours for the drug to get out of your system."

I nodded. The world went black again.

[morph the cat]

that flavor

IV said it could just be scum muffin who didn’t want to drag the game out.

Do you agree with IV?

[Bell]

Bell

From meh to great meteor from space, how pissed will you be if we break the bargain?

I was already considering breaking my word and bringing you along to elo instead.
But the muffin thing isn't even kind of budging.
If we're following zmuffin plan, we are killing zemuffinman~

[Bell]

Otherwise, I'm hopping back to Bork and then voting Muffin tomorrow if my read is bad.

[Bell]

Also,
I do like Tunnels thinking since he ended up reaching the same conclusion independently though more slowly in a way that's hard to fake so I still feel pretty good about ST.