Chapter 0: Explanation and rules about the Voting Game+Introduction
Xiles Pov
The figure with the golden mask and robotic voice continues
That’s right, you all choses YES and thus joined this game.
“A game?!” a boy about thirteen years old says in an excited voice. He was one of the last people who teleported here.
A middle aged salaryman shouts “This is joke right?! You are kidnapping us to play a stupid game! I don’t have time for this.”
This guy belongs to the first four who teleport here, he didn’t know that. I’m the only one who witnessed the scene. This girl too, I glanced at her.
The golden mask guy is beginning to explainin what the hell The Ruler’s Game is.
The Ruler's game is a collection of different games together. From political type of games to survival type of games.
You can gather points during those games. With those points with you can exchange real money or in-game items.
Hearing you can exchange points you acquired during the games with really money, everyone is staring at the tv screen with focused faces.
To earn points you need to complete objectives in the games.
Objectives are divided into three categories: Main,Side and Special
To clear the game you need only to complete one main objective.
With other words there are different ways to clear the game.
All what he said sounds logical to me, until the next phrase.
Fail the main objective and you will DIE from a heart attack into the real world.
You consciousness is transported inside this virtual world while you are asleep.
One hour inside here is equal one minute inside the real world.
You will feel hunger and thirst inside this world so if you don't eat or drink for days you will die too.
“What?! You mean we can die from it if we fail the main objective?” A girl with blond hair shouted
“I can’ believe this bullshit, until I witness with my own eyes. Virtual world? Dead? Heart Attack?” An man with African roots said in angry manner
“Don’t fucking kidding me!” A man with russian accent is shouting
I look at the reactions of the other “participants”, some are in panic, others can’t believe it. There is only one guy who doesn’t show his emotions. Strange, he is surprisingly calm under this circumstances.
“I don’t want to play this game anymore! I will to go back into the real world!” A man wearing glasses said.
You can't leave the game until you finished one of the main objectives.
Well, you can end yourself right here if you desire death.
A guy in glasses, try to open the doors of the hallways. “It’s locked!” he shouted
I assume the doors will be unlocked after the game start.
The guy with the golden mask disappeared from the tv, in it’s place the rules and objectives are displayed.
Now let's explain the main game for today.
It's called Voting Game.
There are three ways to clear this game.Main Objective 1: Survive for 4 hours
+50 pointsMain Objective 2: Majority votes on the host
+100 points if you voted on him, if not you gain 0 points.Main Objective 3: Guess who the host is amongst you and win a deathmatch against him/her
+500 pointsSide Objective : Votes on you are converted into points if you aren’t the eliminated target.
Each vote is 50 points worthSpecial Objective : You gain 1000 points if hosts dies while choosing you as X-targetRules:
-Murder is disabled in this game, with other words players can't use violence in the Voting Game or he/she will get penalized
with death.
-There is a host in this game, he already experiences this sort of games before. He is hidden amongst you 11. The host has a different condition to win this game.
-Each hour, you are required to vote for one person to be "Eliminated from the game." This person will die if the majority vote
is on him or her.
The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.
-If two people have the same majority vote, then both died. You can't draw votes in this game.
-At the start of the game special made phones are distributed amongst you. You can see objectives and other things on the phone.
-You will vote and guess the "host" with this phone. Votes are locked after you choose a person. You cannot change your votes.
-If you guess is incorrect, you will died immediately and your phone will self-destruct.
-Game will automatically end after four hours, the ones who are alive cleared the game.
-Deathmatch games are randomized. The rules will appeared on the tv screen once the game have been decided.
-The host will get randomly target assigned at the third voting round of the game.Host Win Condition: Survive for 4 hours
+500 pointsHost Win Condition 2: Someone guessed you identity right, win the deathmatch against him/her
+500 pointsHost Win Condition 3: Win if your X-target died.
+1000 points
To win you need either to kill the host or survive for four hours, huh? The hosts have experienced the games before. Could be the host,that guy who stared calmly at the tv screen from before?
I glanced at him, his emotions are still unchanged. The others are all looking at each other wondering what to do.
I need to explain them something first. “It’s probably true what that masked guy is saying. I saw all of you teleporting here. It means there is something supernatural going on. If you don’t believe me ask this girl he saw it too.
They looked at the girl to confirm it.
“I-it’s true.” The girl said
“Wh-who said that you 2 aren’t our kidnappers?” The glasses eyed eyed at us suspiciously.
Ah fuck it, I’m not explaining to this idiot. Let him be suspicious, I don’t care.
“How about we each state our name and our profession first?” A middle aged man with a fat belly asked in a gentle tone.
I will begin, he said. “My name is Garasa Enki. I’m a food expert.”
A Japanese name, now that you mention it, there are several ethnicities here.
No one is enthusiastic about introducing themselves, after all, I guess I will try first.
“Xiles Winterheart, I’m a last year high school student from Canvas, an international school.”
Seeing me introduce myself, the girl with long black hair began to introduce herself too. “My name is Lucia Vermillion, a third year high school student.”
A woman about 28-years old with brown hair, wearing a sexy black night lingerie introduce herself.
“I’m Aria Vellita, manager. Hehe, please don’t vote during the game.” she said in a seductive voice.
I notice several people are staring her with a lecherous look. One of the people, the middle aged salaryman said “I’m Philippe Goosens, an insurance specialist. What are we going to do now?”
“Play the game or die.” The silver haired guy said
“How can you so calm during this time?” Philippe asked
“.....Zero.. My name.” After mentioning his name, this Zero guy walks away from the crowd. This guy is so chuuni, is he alright? He was quite handsome and I noticed the girl with blond hair is staring at her.
There's something I also noticed, he is wearing normal clothes just like me. I’m too lazy to change my clothes. Five people are wearing normal clothes including me. It’s like he knows there is game tonight and is preparing for it.
Is this the host? I asked myself again.
More people are introducing themselves after seeing us do it. The African guy is called James Woods. His profession is patisserie baking.
Stephy Lake is the name of the blonde girl and she is a university student in Lost bridge.
A large guy with a Russian accent introduce himself as “Boris Petrov, he is a professional boxer.”
The kid who is excited in the games is called Vince Lind and of course he is only a middle school student. This kid probably have adhd or something because he won’t stop moving and biting his nails.
Finally glasses guy introduces himself “Park Kim-Yun, a member of Mensa, Law student at Harvard.
We all know the names of the participants now. But I notice that everyone is eyeing suspiciously at each other. Even the gentle looking Garasa Enki is doing this.
I guess this is normal because we will vote each other after an hour when this game starts. We actually will become murders unless we can get hosts.