"So... what now?"
Twilight shrugged. "As far as I understood it, the idea of the game is that any discussion had spawns more discussion, so as soon as it has started, it'll keep itself going."
"Right," Liara said, "But how do we get it going?"
"Well... the book said something about voting for random players in the beginning - if no discussion arises naturally."
"Most fabulous. Like so? Ahem. Vote for Twilight Sparkle." RIIIIIIIIIING! A radiant stroke of energy appeared above Twilight's head, forming a Romareian 'I'. "Lovely. What do you think, dear?"
"Quite..." Twilight nervously eyed the purple script above her. "Except you shouldn't vote for me-"
"Vote for Twilight," said a calm voice from across the room. RIIIIIIIIIING! Cold gave Twilight a short, apologetic smile.
"Okay, I think that's enough content for us to analyze, so you can-"
"Hah. Totally vote for Twilight." RIIIIIIIIIING! At this point, Rainbow may or may have protruded her tongue.
RIIIIIIIIIING! "Hey!" Twilight snapped. "Is that your way of thanking me for solving your magic problem?"
"Yeah, that is super-duper ungrateful, isn't it? Vote for Liara." RIIIIIIIIIING! "Oh, and Twilight, could you maaybe reduce the volume just a tiiiny-tiny-bitsy?"
"Sure." Visibly relieved, Twilight tilted her head, sending a short stream of purple energy into seemingly nowhere. "Thank you, Pinkie. Now - what does this tell us about-"
"Alignment?" Rainbow shrugged. "Nothing."
"I'm not so sure about that." Cold camly walked across the room, slowly drawing circles around Twilight. "Though I have never played this game before, I would suppose that the liars in our midst feel more pressure from votes than the rest of us, since they know they are guilty. What do you think, Twilight?"
"That's, uh..." Twilight stocked, sweat running down her face. "Uhhm..."
riiiiiiiiiing. That was Sweetie Belle, shortly followed by - riiiiiiiiiing. - Applebloom.
"Stop!" Twilight shrieked in panic. "That's only one vote away from a lynch! I just got scared, alright? I'm not chaos!"
Cold turned calmly around and leaned forward to Pinkie, whispering something into her ear. Pinkie nodded, and slowly approached Twilight, looming closer like a panther.
"Maaaaybe you just got scared," she said, her face leaning forward dangerously close to Twilight's, who instinctively backed off to the wall behind her. "Or maaaybe you're one big lying MEANIE!"
"That's not fair!" Twilight protested. "Scum has to lie in this game! That doesn't make them mean."
In an instant, Pinkie Pie was back to her bouncy and giggly harmless self. "I know that, silly. I just did what Cold told me."
"And I'm pretty sure Harmony would rather say something like 'But I'm innocent!' in that situation," Cold concluded.
"Yap. Clear Chaos." Liara disappeared, only to rematerialize beside Cold momentarily. "Good work, sis."
"Now, we should not finalize the lynch quite yet. We're only a few minutes into the game and-"
"Vote for myself," Twilight said in a disheartened voice. riiiiiiiiiing. "You got me. Least I can do now is deny you the rest of the day."
"Sorry, Twilight." Flapping her wings, Fluttershy flew over next to her, drawing her into a warm hug. "I still like you, even if you're chaos," she whispered.
Blushing, Twilight half-heartedly returned the gesture. "Three minutes into ten days. Ugh..."
"So, who're your chaus-buddies, huh?"
Twilight gave Rainbow a sad smile. "Pinkie and Fluttershy," she replied flatly.
"What?" Rainbow's body jerked around like a rubber ball, facing Fluttershy. "Is that true?"
BONG.
"Day's over."