BARGHEST AND ALECTRYON

[soulping]

[ Somehow, this pillow fort is large enough for everyone, and it seems to block out all sound from outside. ]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[remarch]

It depends on the penalty and how they're averaging, or the totals, right? If we know absolutely who one is, and it's your total right guesses, we could get 100% right by doing one. But if we get it wrong, we get 0%. And like, if we just guess everyone, we've got a 20% chance of getting it right?

Re: DISCUSSION

[untilitsleeps]

[ooh]

That's true...

[remarch]

And anyway, it's kinda hard to tell if people had a strategy? Like, we just picked randomly. And do we get a win if they suck at guessing ours the most?

[untilitsleeps]

Who knows?

[remarch]

Games where you have to set shit on fire are soo much easier.

[untilitsleeps]

I guess.

[remarch]

Hey, echo, can you tell us more about the scoring?

[soulping]

[ A meow, and then: ]

I suppose I can!

You'll receive five points for each correct answer, and lose one point for every wrong answer. No points will be taken or awarded for choosing not to answer for a person.

[untilitsleeps]

So just doing the ones we're sure of is best.

[hungryman]

You'd have to get five wrong to cancel out one that's right though.

[remarch]

If we get one in four right, we get one point every guess, and way more if we get two right? And it's a one in five shot of being right.

But if we fuck up a lot, we'll go way into negatives.

[hungryman]

Blind guesses shouldn't be tried at all then.

[remarch]

Yeah. But isn't every guess super blind? We picked kinda random. Do you know any guys who won't kiss at all?

[hungryman]

The bird probably isn't doing any actual kissing, but I can't decide if they would do the hand kiss or the nose rub.

[remarch]

Unless they knew we'd think that way for guessing so they picked the ones that didn't make sense.

[Barghest: Team of paranoids uselessly spinning their wheels.]

[hungryman]

Well you can't really guess things that don't make sense, can you? You have to trust your gut.

[remarch]

... Uh. How?

[hungryman]

Well, you would usually have a reason to think someone has a role, right? Try to see if the reasons why they didn't have the role stand up.

[remarch]

Because they'd know we'd guess that as their role, and they wanted to trick us so they'll win. Like Sparrow's fine with kissing, so we'd all think she'd kiss someone, so she picked the nose one.

But what if they worked out we'd work that out and they went all recursive and shit...

[hungryman]

Hnnngh... you can second guess it the entire way down. Some people just aren't comfortable doing certain things regardless, and from what I can tell there's a lot of people who are willing to do things that are harder for their teammates.

[untilitsleeps]

It just takes one point to lose.

[hungryman]

I think it lends itself to making guesses when you're not sure but have a good idea, but a blind guess would be a bad idea.

[remarch]

Hey, echo, is it like, averaged out? Does it matter how many times we guess? You said "No penalties", didn't you? Is it getting 100% right, or getting more points?

[soulping]

It's getting more points, dear. There's no averaging involved.

And you may call me "Fluffy," not "Echo."

[remarch]

Got it. So there's no point going for like, one perfect right guess to game it. Unless everyone really, really fucks up and we totally can win with five points.