The Monster Under Your Bed

 This isn't the original prompt.  But when I googled the one selected it turns out there is an offensive regional definition to the one I was going to use, so I scrapped it and had the wheel spin again.  

Which is why you ended up with 


Intrigant


The deadline to link your entry back to this thread is Sunday Sept 21st at 8pm ET.

Have fun!

 Here we are again, this time it's not just this poll though, its the totals from ALL the polls that are coming into factoring in who stays and who is leaving. 

Which has led us to a "first", or at least the first since the creation of the byes, where someone taking a bye results in elimination. 

I don't think anyone will be surprised that the top number of votes, who will be receiving the antidote - the power of life or death in this game - is xeena .  Congratulations! 

The two lowest over all aren't the two lowest in this particular poll.  This week the cruel hand of fate lands on marjorica  and serpentinejacaranda   (who, in a twist of fate, had submitted an entry before removing it. Had it stayed up, and gotten around the same number of votes as the past few weeks, or better, would be staying.  :(   ) 

Thank you both for coming out for this utterly insane ride, and I hope that you stick around to see what is happening next, and will jump back in when the Wheel gives you a shot at redemption!

You've got questions - I've got answers!

Maybe. For some things. Let's try this! Some from emails and some from a thread I was directed to so that I could know the sort of things people are curious about.

On this particular vote:

- Will the intersection totals count as your total votes, or just your individual totals. The individual votes.
- How will bye weeks count toward the total. Bye weeks are 0 votes. I considered doing the "average" but that wasn't anywhere in the original requests for this structure. Trying to maintain that integrity to the request.
- Doesn't that make it lopsided for people with bigger friends list? How would that work in a regular season if we did it that way? IMO, it wouldn't. But as a one time thing, it's interesting, which is why it ended up on the Wheel. :)
- Will you provide a list so we all know how many votes we have in total? Maybe. Full disclosure, I haven't even done that for myself yet. I have no idea how far "ahead" or "behind" anyone is going into this week! I need to do that this weekend!





The Wheel:

Is the wheel going to ever allow people to come back into the game? 
There are *counts* 5 different scenarios allowing for different variations of people coming back into the game.  6 depending on how a specific special power is used.  :)  Sooner or later, odds are the wheel is going to land on one of them, and probably soon. 

Do you remove options from the Wheel once they are used? 
Most of them. There are a couple in there specifically designed to come up again. But they haven't come up yet. 

What happens if we get down to the Final 5 but we haven't hit the "come back into the game option?"  We proceed to the end game.  That's the nature of the Wheel.  Like I said, it could last a week and it could go on for the rest of our natural, and unnatural lives.  



The Killer(s): 


How many Killers are left in the game?  There is absolutely no way I'm going to tell you that.  :) 
That said, the pieces are all there.  You know we started with between 1-3.  The original(s) don't even know how many we started with, or who the others are!  I also tell you when there is an empty vial found, and when there isn't.  Which considering you also know that the Killers have two choices: Recruit or Poison. If no vial is found, you know what they picked!  You can do the math from there, and I've seen some people are doing that. 

- Was a vial found this week?   I can now reveal, yes. Yes there was an empty vial found. 

-  What is the criteria for who for an Accusation? What is the criteria for the Killer(s) in who they choose to poison?  I'm not you. I can't decide what your criteria is.  I assume that everyone has their own strategy for both of those things. For the former, I'd say it should be "Who do you think a Killer is" for the poisoning/recruiting - who would be the best choice for further whatever agenda you have in the game! 

- If a Killer is eliminated during a poll, will you know?  Yes. You will know. 

-  How does the Accusation work? Is it majority vote?  Yes.  The majority of you have to agree.  If the Killer is Person X and 40% of you think it's them, but 60% think it's Person Y, you are going to officially accuse Person Y.    The Killer(s) work on the same principle. They have to reach majority on two issues:  Recruit or Poison and then who to either recruit or poison. In the event of a tie that cannot be broken, the Wheel would decide between the choices. 

- How does the antidote work? Does the person taking it know if it works or not?  Yes. Or rather the person who wins it knows. If they drink it themselves, they know and if they give it to someone else, they know that as well.... and so will the person drinking it.  

- How does it taste? It has a bit of a minty lemon aftertaste that once you get used to is quite pleasant.  :)


Participation

- Yeah. It's been down.  Some of that is the small numbers we have and some of that is that I'm not driving engagement like I normally would be doing.  Haven't been in a good place in awhile. I need to be doing more of this and less of *points the rest of the world* 

How are you Gary? 

- Not great.  Some days MUCH better than others.  Proud of Celena who has been accepted to every single grad school she's applied to so far. Cynthia's birthday is on Monday, so that's weird not going all in on it... and my birthday is coming up at the end of the month and really not sure how I want to celebrate it.  If anyone wants to send me massive amounts of cash though, I'll figure something out!  :D   (Note to self - find people with massive amounts of cash, who want to give it to you!!! No, I won't send them to you!!!) 

How are YOU?  

I can't answer that.  You go ahead and answer it below. 

Ask any other questions you've been having below and I'll try my best to answer them. 

 Fresh off a major victory of outing a treacherous villain last week, can our heroes do it again?  Can they finally put an end to the evil in this manor, or will they Killer(s) claim another victim?  Or... is it already too late? 

We are gathered here to find out the answers to these questions. 

So the votes are in, and a single last minute vote was what determined who was going to be accused this week. But one vote is enough... 

The residents of the Castle accuse 

alycewilson  of being a vile and loathsome traitor!!! 

The shrieking starts as soon as those words leave your lips... Alyce goes into convulsions, and does a full back flip as foul smelling black smoke issues from her pores, escaping into the night... in her hand is a small glowing medallion... the light spreads across her, filling her with new life and a renewed spirit. 

Congratulations!!! You have vanquished another Killer!!!

Was that it?  Have you caught them all?  Is there finally piece in the cast... another scream is heard and a heavy, savage thud.  You turn as one, and everyone starts screaming and crying... 

halfshellvenus  is on the floor, no longer among the living. 

Her final words etched in our hearts: halfshellvenus.dreamwidth.org/746724.html

 The prompt for this week is another one suggested during that Patreon campaign.  Seriously - you should become a Patron.  ;)  

I had all of the Patreons at that time period send in a couple prompt suggestions and I picked my favorite of them and used them in that mini season.  Others have appeared in other seasons.  This is the last of those, it actually came from someone who is currently participating, which should make things interesting!!!   Thanks to our own bleodswean ! 

The prompt is

Edgelord 

The deadline to link your entry back to this thread is Thursday, Sept 11th at 8pm  ET.   (not ominous at all) 

The wheel keeps spinning, but for the moment, it stops for one contestant.

The poll results are in, and leaving us this round is  autumn_wind  

Thank you so much for coming out for this wild ride, and I hope you will keep Home Gaming, and jump back in when the wheel lands on something that allows it!


***

On her way out, she kicks something that was dropped on the floor.... it rolls across the room before hitting the wall and shattering.... it's an empty vial.  The Killer(s) have taken their revenge!  But who did they poison? 

xeena  had an antidote - who will be receiving it? Will she thwart their evil plans, or just drink a refreshing potion?