[1]-Jumpfight
[2]-Mr. Giggles
[3]-Slezak
[4]-Cold52
[5]-Ami/Geno
[6]-Doctor Nanjo
[7]-Pierre
[8]-JesusMonroe
[9]-Cesar





Day 1
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4

Day 2
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4

Day 3
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4

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Last edited by Franzise Deauxnim on Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:35 pm, edited 8 times in total.

You awaken to face a ceiling you don't recognize in a bed that isn't yours. As the grogginess and minor headache you felt upon your return to the waking world complete their trip into the ether, you look around. Somehow you've found yourself in a sparsely-furnished room. There's an uncomfortable-looking wooden chair, the bed you slept on, a standing lamp, a simple door, and...that's it. Not even a window. You notice a slight weight upon your wrist; it's a metallic bracelet with a display similar to a digital watch. You see a colored number and a word on the display. The bracelet is skin-tight on your arm and doesn't have any visible release mechanism, so there's no way to remove it.

With nothing else to do in the empty room, you approach the door. The knob turns easily enough.

You step into a large, rectangular room. As you do, you notice several other people, some already in the room and some entering through similar doors, all on the same wall. All of these people seem just as confused as you are. All of them are wearing similar bracelets. On the wall directly across from your door, you see six other doors, all metallic, and what looks like a large monitor embedded in the wall above them. To your left is what appears to be three elevators. To the right, another, much bigger metal door with some sort of lever next to it. The metallic doors, elevators, and lever all refuse to move. Just as panic begins to settle in on some of your companions, the monitor blinks to life, and the most beautiful face you've ever seen in your life comes into focus blah blah blah blahhh

Okay, I think that's enough exposition, it's not like anyone really cares about all of this anyway.


Ahem.



Well what do you know? Hiiii, everyone, so good to see you're all awake now!

You all doing alright? Get a chance to introduce yourselves to each other?

Well, if you didn't, sorry, you'll just have to wait until I'm done, okay?

Now, I'm sure you have a million questions, but I'm just going to assume the biggest one is "What the hell am I doing here?" First off, watch the language. Secondly, the reason you're all here is because I brought you here, duh! And the reason I did that is... because I love you all so very, very much! So much so that I wanted you all here to play a little game together! Doesn't that sound fun? Let's call the game...


Oh, whatever, you all know what it's called, let's get to the rules already.


See that huge door over to your right? I'm behind that door.

Your goal is to get through that door to me! Show me how much you want to see me! How do you get through the door? Well that's easy! As you play the game, you earn points! Same as in most games, right? You all start with three points; get to nine and you can open the door! But be careful, because that door only opens one time, so if it opens and you don't have enough points to go through, you're out of luck! You can lose points, too! If any of you go to zero or fewer points at any time, I'd have to punish you~

Oh, right, speaking of Zero, don't let Zero escape! If you do, everyone else loses, and that's no fun at all!

Now there's going to be doors you can go in and doors you can't go in. If you take a look at the bracelets you're wearing, it should have a number on the display in a certain color along with the word PAIR or SOLO. The pairs and solo thing is what you need to know to get into the elevators. Pairs have to go with whomever is a pair of the same color. So red pair with red pair, and so on. Easy, huh? Solos can go with whomever they want! You need three people in each elevator, though. If you try to use an elevator with more or fewer people, I'd have to punish you~

The numbers work in a similar way; you use those to get through Numbered Doors. I'll explain that a bit more when you get to one, but I'll let you know now that if you try to go through a Numbered Door you're not supposed to go through, I'd have to punish you~

So most of you have probably figured out that the bracelets determine what you can do in this game. Now. I truly hope this isn't the case, but if any of you are thinking of getting rid of your bracelets, I just have to say... how could you even consider something so cruel? I poured my heart and soul into those and made each one specially for you! If you were to try taking your bracelet off or breaking it, I'd

paint a Jackson Pollock on the walls with your guts.

I really don't want to have to do that.




I mean, have you seen that guy's work? I've seen cats spit up things more artistic.



Anyway, I think I've rambled on long enough.

The elevators are on now, so go ahead and head on down whenever you're ready! Just don't take too long, you only have 24 hours to decide who goes with whom! And be careful about who you pair up with, it might be important later! Hope to see you soon!

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Just checking in. You guys can call me Neptune~

Also I'm the green pair. And I have one question, Franzise. Do we actually have to form the magenta/yellow/cyan teams? The way it works in VLR is that if one solo chooses who they want to go with, the others don't have a choice. With this, it sounds like the red solo can go with the red pair, but that doesn't force the green solo to go with the green pair--he can go with the blue pair?

Or is it like VLR with the Option A, Option B, Option C stuff?

Oh, right. Yeah, do the color teams thing. I'll add that later.

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Ok then we have to find out each person's bracelet assignments first but this is how the teams will shake out if anybody else wants to fill in the blanks later

Option A:
Red pair and blue solo go through the magenta door
Blue pair and green solo go through the cyan door
Green pair and red solo go through the yellow door

Option B:
Red pair and green solo go through the yellow door
Blue pair and red solo go through the magenta door
Green pair and blue solo go through the cyan door

Option C:
Red pair and red solo go through the cyan door
Blue pair and blue solo go through the yellow door
Green pair and green solo go through the magenta door

Hello Neptune.

You can call me Doctor Nanjo, I have the number SIX bracelet and I am the BLUE SOLO.

I have no door preference, but I also don't know if I feel comfortable that anyone would at this point.

(You don't actually have to call me Neptune by the way)

Door preference only matters if we're deciding whether or not we'll all ally this round or all betray. If we all agree to betray, it doesn't matter who we go through a door with. If we all agree to ally...well, trust your partner

I'm sorry, JesusMonroe then?

Anyway, I consider myself a mystery enthusiast. I have read many of the classics and all, and I have read 999 and, more importantly, Virtue's Last Reward. I understand why, if you are familiar with those stories, you might assume we'll be playing the ambidex game in this situation, but I have to point out that the words ally and betray haven't been mentioned yet by the facilitator.

That being said, it's not very suspicious or anything; it's just something that surprised me.

I understand possible ambidex game strategies, but I think I'll withhold my opinion of them for a little until everyone does their introductions.

Yeah, JesusMonroe is fine. I was just giving a "codename" to reveal my bracelet number

I'm assuming the Ambidex game is in this because it was in the first Nonary Game played on the forum. Same with the numbered and colored bracelets

Giggles is the name. I'm the other member of the green pair. Looks like we'll be spending this round together, JesusMonroe. I'm not really big into the whole decision making thing, so I'll go with whatever the group does. Oh, and my number is 2. So close to being the best...

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Hello, Giggles!

It is interesting that the people here so far could go make up a team and go through the cyan door.

Also it might be smarter that you have an opinion honestly. The group here is composed probably of three or four people who want everyone else to die. Sure, one could make a mistake with a relatively uninformed opinion, but it also could save us from a scenario where people like that make decisions not in the in our interest.

Also are you claiming that Ace is the best in 999? If you are, I might ask why.

Oh no double post

Ace wins in the most endings

Plus, he's fucking awesome

I just meant the number 1. It's like... First, you know? And hey, by not having an opinion, I don't step on any toes. That's really my goal. Going with the flow and working with everyone to get out asap.

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also 1 was previously my number so yeah

da bess

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Also, 1's best friend is 8

So 1 has great taste

Alright that's fair, Giggles. I would just argue that the toes you might step on are, generally, going to be the toes of our enemies, assuming you're not one.

It'd be fair to like Ace too, for the record. I really like Ace. He sort of resonates with me, being a cool, altruistic guy in the medicine field. Up until you find out he's an unsympathetic sociopath, that is.

I actually thought Ace was kind of boring until he was revealed to be an unsympathetic sociopath. Then he became one of my favorites

Actually, he is unable to win in those endings. In those endings, he's only the last to die. Consider that the Q door was designed to intentionally be arcane. I don't think Ace would have figured it out in the allotted time: remember that all endings take place shortly (or even during) the flooding, and that the submarine leads to nowhere. If Ace took the submarine, he would find himself wasting time, if not trapped. And that's assuming the sub is even functional. That's also assuming the explosives didn't go off: Ace had a detonator and explosives just like the ninth man and X did. Were he to try to leave without the permission of Zero, he would probably die. Not to mention that two of the watches had different numbers than was displayed, further complicating matters for Ace.

Simply put, all chances of survival were rigged from the beginning. The only way Ace would be able to come out alive would be to gain ALL watches (which he was able to), figure out the final puzzles (which he'd have difficulty with given the q door and the watch thing I mentioned), and exit from the appropriate exit (and not the submarine).

But yeah.

Hi everyone.

JM: Green pair.
DN: Blue Solo.
MG: Green pair.
Me: Red Pair.
PR: ?
52: ?
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

Before we start deciding who is going where, it might be advantageous to, y'know, find out who owns the other colors. Especially those of us that are currently "married" like I am. Red pair. So that means my "spouse" is somewhere in those five.

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Yeah, ok, you guys are all making good points. Knowing everyone else's colors and numbers is probably super important. Hey, GM, how exactly are we gonna get punished if we break the rules? Poison? Explosives? A non-stop marathon of Vogan poetry?

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hey there im cold my number is 4 and im the red pair.

JM: Green pair.
DN: Blue Solo.
MG: Green pair.
Me: Red Pair.
PR: ?
52: Red Pair.
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

I'm 5, by the way. Guess that makes me protag? Ugh, boring. Wanna switch, Coldy?

JM: ?
DN: 6
MG: 2
Me: 5
PR: 4
52: ?
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

JM, are we using Neptune's placement in the solar system? Or could you just plainly state your number?

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Ya know just cause i have a 5 in my name doesnt mean i want dat number :V

so the only numbers unknown are 1,3,7,8,9 atm

Pick your favorite method.








It won't be that.







Now pick again.








It'll be that since you just tried to outsmart me by picking your least favorite option. ♡

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jokes on you i picked the most brutal punishment first :V

I'm 8. I'd rather be 5 or 9, though

Oh I actually have thought of this before. If we assume the Q door needed a sum of [26] to open, then it is literally impossible for Ace to escape. This is because Santa and June's bracelets aren't actually [3] and [6]

speaking of which is it safe to assume what youve mentioned here is the case with two of our players? last game i recall a hint in finding zero had to do with the killers bracelet.

JM: Green pair.
DN: Blue Solo.
MG: Green pair.
Me: Red Pair.
PR: ?
52: Red Pair.
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

JM: 8
DN: 6
MG: 2
Me: 5
PR: 4
52: ?
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

That means we are missing numbers 1, 3, 7, and 9. We are also missing green pair's "spouse", green solo, and the blue pair.

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Greetings to Cold and genodragon.

I'm liking the prospects of both team choices so far.

I don't think bracelet numbers will be key to solving anything. It's just a weird symbolic thing on zero's part anyway. In 999 it was a mostly unrelated thing. Last court records game zero had access to their correct number.

We're missing the red solo, btw, not a member of the green pair.

Never discount something entirely out of hand. Information is power in puzzle games, and this is a game of a lot of puzzles within puzzles. If numbers turn out to be useless, that's fine. But I do want to make a note of it just in case they end up being of significance. In 999, it was one of the central puzzles of the game, and helped foreshadow so much of what happened. If you're expecting us to just intuit Zero, then I have some bad news for ya: intuition is just a lazy writer's way of bypassing a need for deduction and induction.

While I don't think we'll need Knox's Decalogue in its entirety, do remember we're in a mystery. Trust only what the narrative gives you (that is, the PM's) and what you observe yourself. Because everyone is Zero right now.

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Highly doubt it

In the last game, the serial killer had a [0] bracelet. The actual value of the bracelet was [3] (Zero's number) but the bracelet was never used so this was never discovered

I doubt the same trick will happen twice

But that's because the bracelets were never used. And doubt is the name of the game here, JM. Doubt your doubts. I'm not saying that we should go with every tiny little theory, but I am saying that nothing is worthless until we prove that it's worthless- and proof is hard to come by in this game.

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Get there!

*strikes a pose*

I'm the fabled lucky number seven (though you can call me lucky)!

I harbour a dark and terrible secret and I've been cryogenically frozen from the past to mind transplant with the protagonist even further in the past to stop the creation of whatever anime that foul sorceress who entrapped us here is. My colour flows cool with the power of ocean. My soul is at its strongest when I am in flow with another chosen one. /drama

Normal version:

Bracelet number seven
Blue pair.

Stoked for this but at work right now. Hope this doesn't go too fast for me before I hit home.

Excited for another nonary game but can you clarify if the AB game is part of this Franzise?

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If you guys are concerned that one of the bracelet's actual value is zero, then that means the value of another bracelet is 9 (or zero). I'm of course assuming that these two bracelets are part of a 9 pair (1/8, 2/7, 3/6, 4/5)

So if you guys are concerned, then we just have to make sure that the pairs don't go through doors with each other initially. Or, when we get to the first set of numbered doors, we can literally test out a fuck-ton of combinations to see if the door opens

Hi, Pierre

In 999 the twist was 3 is 0 and 6 is 9. The way the trick was covered up was 3 and 6 went through every door together. That'll be pretty obvious if it happens and it's testable. Even if we found out someone had a wrong bracelet it wouldn't mean they're zero, just that zero wanted that person to have one for whatever reason.

Not to mention it unless a bracelet has a good mechanical purpose, it doesn't make that much sense for zero to leave tracks all over the place in that way.

I'm open to it occurring of course, and we can theorize about it. This is just why it is weak evidence.

Hello to Lucky (Pierre).

That's uh... That's certainly something. So what, we only have three more people to find? 4? I'm terrible at keeping track.

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JM: Green pair.
DN: Blue Solo.
MG: Green pair.
Me: Red Pair.
PR: Blue Pair.
52: Red Pair.
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

JM: 8
DN: 6
MG: 2
Me: 5
PR: 7
52: 4
CS: ?
SK: ?
JF: ?

Missing 1, 3, and 9 in numbers. Missing Blue spouse, Red Solo, Green solo.



Upupupu~

Exactly! Why wait for surprises when we can check it ourselves? Right now the doors open by color, but at the first opportunity we can, we'll check our numbers as well. If all else fails given the time limit, we can just drag people along by their hinders.



It wouldn't if we let Zero just have their run of things by just assuming things. Even if we aren't able to find out anything, we can at least eliminate one possibility. We can't test numbers at the moment, but if we are able to test them at any point, we should.



dw, I got your back.

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weak evidence yes but it is true atm we dont really have anything to go on so everything's up for speculation at this point and only asked as a means of opening discussion on the possibility of a clue coming from it since it did last round, if there is my guess is it would different then the clue we had last game or the exact same since most wouldnt think the same clue would appear twice, again though once we get this game moving im sure well either find somthing to go on or atleast point us in the right direction.

Yeah, I didn't ever mean to imply it wouldn't be worth testing bracelets.

We should, especially if we have a way to do it safely.

Dang sorry I think my mouse double clicks post some times, sorry. Ignore this. I'll try to prevent this