Disclaimer: making decisions based on what names were used where in what flavor text would be funnier than rolling a die, and equally effective. Doitdoitdoit.
You're in a jail cell in Logicstan with your hood bruthas and sistas. Apparently the guy you shot at the bank actually
died
. This scene is not unfamiliar.
You know you'll sit in the cell until morning. Then Tables Bob, the warden, will give you a puzzle and threaten to kill you all if one of you screws up. Then you'll all get it right and he'll have no choice but to let you go. You're on very familiar terms with Tables Bob, but you have even closer bonds between each other. By now, you can see your hat's color in Shanba's eyes.
It's a pretty relaxed night. Logicstan prison food isn't bad, and JDodge has managed to hide £500 worth of American, British and Maltese currency in his armpit. You're all figuring out how to divide it up evenly when a jailer comes in.
It isn't Tables Bob. It's a woman with a vacuum cleaner where her left arm should be. In her right hand is a page from a scientific journal. She slides it through the bars, and you get a glimpse of the headline:
Ability to Solve Certain Puzzle Genres Not Affected by Karma
.
"I'm Ether. Tables Bob is currently being tried for his irrational sense of justice, so I'm going to be your warden over the next few days. We're going to be experimenting with the 'informed minority versus uninformed majority' approach.
"You're each going to get a card. Some of you will get 'mafia' cards. Some will get 'town' cards. This will be random, although the totals of each card type will be guaranteed, see above. You all choose someone to kick out, then the mafia chooses someone to kick out blah blah blah we only execute all the mafia or all the town. The rest of you will be free to go--
this
time.
"Don't do it again."
It is now Day 1
. With 12 alive, it'll take 7 to lynch naturally. The game will go into deadline on the midnight between Monday and Tuesday, November 26-27, Eastern time.
As I move my vote
Towards your wagon, town is taking note
It fills my head up and gets louder and
LOUDER