(mini round) ROLE: THE GUARD

[mayoiga]

INFO/FAQ

MURDER PROPOSALS

THURSDAY CURFEW

LOCATIONS

FULL NAV

ROLE: THE GUARD

At any time after Sunday at 11pm, even if you happen to be in your quarters - there will be a note addressed to you that has been placed on the desk in your room, prominent and unmissable. It is signed by the Manager.

Come to the President’s Suite at the end of the 6th floor. Be discreet. It is important.

Should you head towards the Suite, you will find that the door is now easily opened even without a key, and behind it, it opens to a classy, modern suite - the Manager is waiting behind her desk. When you arrive, she will rise - and gesture to the folded card on the table.

On one fold, a copy of the below rules and guidelines can be found printed in neat handwriting - the Manager's. The other fold is blank, for now.

"I've been waiting for you both, Guards."

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Upon leaving the Suite, you will not be able to access it again until the following week. After your first visit, you may realise, as well, that the blank third page of your personal rulebook now holds an IC copy of the below guidelines and rules for your role. This will be visible for your eyes only, unless someone looks at it with a blacklight.

Rules and Guidelines

Yuki and Alan, you have both been selected as the Guard! More commonly known as the protector role, you have a stab (ha) at preventing some of the murders from happening and changing up the dynamics of the game!

To summarise key aspects of your role:

1. As the Guard, both your characters will have the ability to protect up to three people each week from being targeted for murder, although that may come at the potential cost of your own life.

2. You cannot protect the same character over consecutive weeks (e.g. choosing to protect Character A in week 1 and week 3 is ok but not week 1 and week 2) and you cannot choose to protect yourself.

3. If any one character you have chosen to protect is selected as a victim for the week, there are three potential outcomes:

• The killer will be forced to switch to a completely different victim (i.e. both you and the original victim survive)
• One of you will be able to intervene in the planned murder and save the original victim. Depending on the cases planned for each week, there may be an opportunity to turn the tables on the killer instead. (i.e. the original victim will survive and there is a chance you may be able to take the killer down instead - you will also be considered the culprit for that particular week's case. This is however left up to OOC discussion and the murder proposals we have received for the week.)
• One of you will die in the original victim's place. (i.e. you will be the confirmed victim)

OOCly, the mods will be using a 20-sided dice roll to determine the outcome between the three in the event that your attempt to protect someone is successful. Please note that the more people you choose to protect weekly, the more you will be likely to have to sacrifice yourself in the original victim’s place! For instance, choosing to protect three people each week means that the probability of a success roll (i.e. you don't die) is lower than if you protect only one person per week.

4. Selections are due 12PM EST/9AM PST Monday of each week so that we have time to coordinate with the murder proposals. Please indicate two selections on the corresponding top level for each week:

• A list of no more than 3 people whom you would like to protect
• Between the two of you, who we can call upon for murder/put on the chopping block in the event of a successful save

ICly, you will be expected to fill in the blank card with your choices and hand it back to the Manager before leaving the Suite. OOCly, please feel free to use this post for any role related discussion!

5. For ease of logistics (and to help your mods in coordinating multiple cases where necessary), when carrying out Guard duties, "guard blinders" will be in effect, where you will not be privy to details of any other cases aside from your own. If you happen to cross paths with anyone else, they will be unaware of your existence, and you of theirs - this applies to bodies and other evidence as well.

6. Given that there are no private conversations for this round, we would advise that you be cautious if you want to divulge your role to anyone else and recommend that you try and keep your role both an IC and OOC secret for as long as it is feasible! If a situation arises that you would need to tell someone of your role, please give the mod team a heads up so that we can factor this into our plans for the game.

We hope you enjoy your role! Please also feel free to use this post for any communication with the Manager - please bear in mind that you will only be able to access them, IC-ly, on Sunday nights.

Comments

WEEK 1

[mayoiga]

SELECTION

[mayoiga]

[circuitice]

Kaeya enters:

Iria
Tsumugi
Arthur

TALK TO THE MANAGER

[genmanager]

[ she is! here! to answer any questions and the like. but otherwise she will be working at her desk until they give her their selections. ]

[circuitice]

This is really very confounding.

So I will start with the obvious question first: why.

[genmanager]

You're going to have to be more specific with that question, Kaeya.

[ ask the right questions, get the right answers ]

[unprincelike]

What if we refuse to participate as a "Guard"?

[ Obviously he wants to protect people, but he doesn't plan on participating in this whole thing anyway. ]

[genmanager]

[ she'll incline her head. ]

You can choose not to, it's entirely voluntary.

[ but does yuki really want to give up this opportunity, hm? ]

[circuitice]

It seems our experience grows stranger still.

WEEK 2

[mayoiga]

SELECTION

[mayoiga]

[reshape_destiny]

Alan writes:

Reigen
Gershom
Lucas

TALK TO THE MANAGER

[genmanager]

[reshape_destiny]

[Someone's clearly not all that happy to be here, on the one hand...

... but on the other, if it means he can actually make a difference? Then he'll tolerate it, at least for the moment... but it doesn't mean he doesn't also want answers.]

... is this because of what I tried to do earlier?

[genmanager]

[ she'll nod. ]

Something like that, yes.

[unprincelike]

[ It takes Yuki some time, but he finally approaches the Manager. ]

When Kaeya woke up... was that because it had been decided that two people would die, and one of them was on our list?

[ He's curious, and wants to know a little bit more about how this actually works in practice. ]

[genmanager]

[ she will nod. got it in one. ]

You are correct. The both of you chose to protect Arthur last week, and Kaeya decided that his life was worth the exchange.

[unprincelike]

[ And once again, Yuki is here. It feels empty without Kaeya, and he can't help the way his hands shake a little. It finally feels like he can at least process what he's feeling and everything that happened around Kaeya's death. He feels like he could cry, but no tears come out, even as his eyes water.

Honestly, Kaeya didn't just save Arthur—he saved Yuki too by insisting on submitting the names.

He does his best to ignore the Manager's presence for now, instead staring down in silence at the folded card on the table. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Alan is expecting an entire range of things when he walks in, most of them not exactly good things.

One thing he's absolutely not expecting? Seeing Yuki there on the verge of tears (which is, in all honesty, not a good thing either, but). It doesn't take him too long to put two and two together when the Manager addresses them both as "Guards," however; whatever this is about, it's clear that both of them have been given the same invitation.]

... hey. You okay?

[It's a bit awkward, but he isn't really sure how to open this conversation when he still isn't sure exactly why he's here.]

WEEK 3

[mayoiga]

SELECTION

[mayoiga]

[unprincelike]

Yuki writes:

Akira Kurusu
Penny Polendina
Xue Yang

TALK TO THE MANAGER

[genmanager]

[ After her disappearing act from Sunday morning's execution, it's probably a surprise to see the Manager still in the Suite when both of them come by.

For the most part, she's quiet, a faraway look in her gaze, occasionally rubbing idly at the very faint finger marks left on her wrist this morning.

She's... kind of here, at least. No guarantees on how helpful she'll be (at least IC-ly), this week. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Alan... is clearly not having a good day today from the way he's pacing back and forth in the Suite and scowling. It stings that the person who Kaeya had died trying to protect in this very role then turned around and committed murder, yet at the same time Alan can understand how those hallucinations could drive someone to that. It stings that Iria, who had been so adamant about not wanting to continue the cycle of killing, had ended up dead for wanting to be a kind person.

He hates this. He hates everything about this.]

[unprincelike]

[ Yuki eventually makes his way into the room, shutting the door behind him quietly before leaning back against it. ]

...Alan.

[ He's so tired. Tired of seeing his friends die, tired of trying to decide who to protect. Part of him wants to get right into things, but all he can do is watch Alan pace the room instead. ]