🐺 Week 5 | 人狼サバイバル 1 絶体絶命! 伯爵の人狼ゲーム 🧐

[Legato]

A game developer being annoyed by the vague rules

@Mara

I don’t understand why they don’t just all go into the same room together. I mean, I guess cause they think then they’ll all get eaten. But they would also know who the werewolf was!

Even if they don’t literally die, if they do metaphorically get eaten (re-reading the rules it’s not actually as clear as I thought it was…) they’d have no way to vote for the werewolf and win the game (=“everybody goes home”). The only two non-eaten participants would be the werewolf and the person who the room belongs to, and the next one-vs-one vote would end in all participants being eaten.

Although I guess the rules don’t include a FAQ section on what happens then. Which rule takes precedence when everybody is eliminated simultaneously?

• ルール④ 参加者が「狼」の正体を当てた場合、君たち全員が解放される。
• ルール⑥ 参加者全員が食べられた時点で、君たちの敗北となる。

I think if we assume the eaten kids don’t actually die and a kid is the actual werewolf, the easiest way to win the game would be to have the voted-out kid camp in the corridor and yell loudly which door opened. After next vote would be the last chance to do that, with the 1 eaten child pointing out the 1 werewolf, and 2 survivors being able to vote for said werewolf in the vote after.

@shitsurei

This is actually kinda a good point. I don’t remember the minutia of the rules but maybe it’s in there?

It’s rather obliquely implied by this weird not-actually-a-rule:

ルール⑧ 20時10分以降、最多得票者以外の参加者は自室にいれば「狼」に襲われることはない。

(Does that mean I get eaten for literally no reason if I’m not in my room at that time? Does that also mean I can break the 禁止事項 and then go to my room and be protected? )

If the Count ever writes an actual rulebook I hope he has a good editor. The whole thing is full of holes and vagueness.
And maybe some beta testers that can point out that his game design is terrible

[shitsurei]

@Legato

@shitsurei

This is actually kinda a good point. I don’t remember the minutia of the rules but maybe it’s in there?

It’s rather obliquely implied by this weird not-actually-a-rule

Aha! I did remember something about being in your own room but not exactly what it was. So if they all go into one room the not werewolves get 「狼」に襲われる… which, is maybe better than 食べられる😅

[Legato]

@shitsurei

Aha! I did remember something about being in your own room but not exactly what it was. So if they all go into one room the not werewolves get 「狼」に襲われる… which, is maybe better than 食べられる😅

With the exception of the room owner, who’d still be protected by the rules. Which we might see in action at some point, since after this experience I can definitely see ハヤト sheltering the next victim in his room.

[soggyboy]

Exciting!!!

Thoughts

I love how ice cold ツバメ was. ‘You cried all day, die.’

@Mara

I mostly don’t get why Hayato voted for mouse-girl … there seemed to be genuinely no rationale there?

My guess is that he wanted to keep ツバメ alive since she’s the smart one?

Also, maybe the ‘eaten’ characters are all in that part of the lodge they couldn’t get access to in the last chapter.

[Legato]

Did you all sleep well? No? Even though we had so much fun yesterday? I even went to the troubles of playing a super loud lullaby on my piano for you??

Ah well, time to wake up anyway. It’s a brand new day in…

Week 6 | 人狼サバイバル 1 絶体絶命! 伯爵の人狼ゲーム

Week 6 December 21 Pages 67-78 Chapter 4 Read until End of chapter Previous week Week 5 Next week Not posted yet Home Thread 人狼サバイバル 1 We’re reading this book as part of the Children’s Book Club. [Book Cover] Discussion Guidelines Please blur/hide any major events in the current week’s pages (however early they occur), like so: (that’s [spoiler]text here[/spoiler]). If you have a question about grammar, vocab, the story, cultural things or literally anything else related…

[Biblio]

Finished chapter 3 just now and I don’t think that the kid that gets eaten, actually dies. I mean… this is after all a children’s book and imagine the trauma if you’d be responsible for someone else’s death. I can’t imagine that for a children’s book.