The FRA Betrayal Game

**andrewj** · 2nd April 2014, 23:44

AJ was struggling to come to terms with what had just happened. All of his friends were here to enjoy a robot combat tournament together and suddenly within minutes two people had died. Mourning wasn't an option right now though – his own life was at risk and he needed to watch his back. The best thing to take his mind off everything was to compete in the rumble, so he stayed at his pit bench and continued to put the finishing touches to Axeon 4.0. Everyone seemed to be picking up weapons to defend themselves, so he kept a large wrench close by at all times.

Tactics: Avoid the spinners but try to have fun. After losing Joey and Martijn, I don't want to get Axeon smashed up too!

**parassyte** · 3rd April 2014, 06:57

I know I've been a bit quiet in the corner here, but I agree with the people saying this is pretty serious. Someone's clearly killed two of us and is hiding among us. I recommend nobody leave this room. If we do have to at some point, make sure every group has at least three people in it--that way if there is a killer they'll be outnumbered.

I can't think about robot stuff right now but if we're going to go through with that... hmm...

*looks at opponents*

Alright... if we're doing strats... I can't keep track of all of the bots. My plan is to try and set up camp in one quadrant of the arena--not on the edges but not in the center either. I want to play keep-away to anything that approaches, smack them with the disc, or push them with the wedge into the wall and move on. Keep a sharp eye out for those axes though. Be ready to turn around and rebuff them!

**alex_holt** · 3rd April 2014, 08:18

"So to clarify here, if any of us try to leave, we die and if we stay we probably die? This seems to be slightly counter productive, it's clearly not to win the tournament as otherwise the killer would let us forfeit and leave. As the whole thing appears to be a set up, who out of us would go through the trouble of rigging up murder toilets and death letters? It seems pretty contrived.

I don't suppose anyone bought a phone with them to rind and get the police in or something?"

**GF93** · 3rd April 2014, 08:30

After making the necessary phone calls, Alex returned to the relative safety of the Pits with the others. Although there was little-to-no risk of anyone getting attacked when they were all together, there was still a definite air of paranoia and uncertainty evident.

Once he had returned to his table where Dreadnought Mk2 still was after its fine-tuning, Alex pulled up a nearby chair, took his Kukri out of its sheath, and held it like a guitar- strumming his fingers along the side of the blade and whistling apprehensively as he waited for any further instructions.

**GF93** · 3rd April 2014, 08:35

Originally Posted by alex_holt

"I don't suppose anyone bought a phone with them to rind and get the police in or something?"

"I did. I've just called the Police and Ambulance for assistance regarding what's happened." Alex replied from his table.

**majinb** · 3rd April 2014, 13:34

Originally Posted by Badnik96

"Hey Ref, has anyone called the police about these murders yet? They should be able to take care of this."

Rastarefbot, with a dopey look on his "face", said...

"Have I done what?"

**alex_holt** · 3rd April 2014, 23:10

Originally Posted by parassyte

I know I've been a bit quiet in the corner here, but I agree with the people saying this is pretty serious. Someone's clearly killed two of us and is hiding among us. I recommend nobody leave this room. If we do have to at some point, make sure every group has at least three people in it--that way if there is a killer they'll be outnumbered.

This is assuming (without any of our external context) that there is a single killer, it might be more than one person for all we know, or that whoever is doing the killing doesn't have the means to kill multiple people at once. We really don't have any defence beyond staying as a group where everyone is watching everyone.