Anon who theorized the "All are Rogues but one" possibility. The possibility that Taiga just doesn't remember he's the Rogue never occurred to me but now I'm thinking it might be possible lol. Aside from that that tho, you said it wouldn't be possible for everyone to win if all but one were Rogues because if the Goddess picks a suitor, all suitors get to leave and the Rogue stays behind.
But the game master said in I believe chapter 11, "if you fail to fill the vessel and clear your mission, the Rogue wins. In that case, the Rogue is the only one who will be freed from this place. However, if you fail your mission, the Goddess is allowed exercise one privilege unique to her role....Should you fail your mission, you can select one man of your own choosing. If that man happens to be a Suitor, the two of you can leave this castle together. That is the Suitor Ending, where the remaining members die from the heartbreak of not being chosen."
This would mean that in the Suitor Ending, all the unchosen suitors die, while the chosen suitor, the Goddess, and the Rogue survive. If everyone is a Rogue but one, as long as they fail to fill the vessel, all the Rogues win and thus get to leave. The Goddess gets to exercise her privilege, and as long as she picks the suitor, everyone would win. I think it'd be a nice possibility, but I'm not so confident the anomaly would be willing to allow such a loophole to exist, unless of course it just wants to laugh at the way they're distrust for one another prevents them from figuring this out. Then again, you reminded me that someone had been roaming around at night, possibly switching cards, so who knows.
Hello again anon! You're right, I did mistemember lol it was 5am after all. Normally i'm nkt even awake thst early. I was thinking about the suitor ending where they succeeded with the game at the time, even though you said it was the game failure ending lol
Yes in theory everyone could get out that way--if MC chooses the correct person as the suitor. Obviously if everybody tells her their actual role and there is one suitor that's easier. . .but it also relies on them knowing to lose(and their cards never getting swapped.)
With the newer insight that this is like. 80% chance to be Lockburn Castle and the mask and magic in the castle are from the Flower Witch, I can't help but wonder if the roses are part of the magic restrictions or not. And since the Flower Witch hates humanity, surely she wouldn't have the game be winnable in the long run? Unless winning is another part of the restrictions. . . .
Another thing I have to wonder about is that Ritsu said the staff were a bit flustered after he got his card. And MC's card was initially missing.
So we know Something was off about the cards from the get go and a change possibly happened after Ritsu got his.
Haku, Taiga, Sho, and Ritsu all got the same card and Elias and/or Alan got a different one(getting flustered because "four in a row got suitors? Can we make sure there's a rogue?" or "why are there four rogues?? Can we make sure there is a/are suitors, we don't hsve time to refilm those?")
Ritsu got something they didn't expect him to(maybe they were meant to all have rogue cards--remember Maya doesn't trust men, it could have been for the Drama!)
Ritsu got the box the goddess card came in by accident(and they decided to either edit in post and swap the cards out later) and that's why MC had the empty box at first, Ritsu has a second goddess card.
Like Ritsu said it's permissible to lie as part of the show. So saying he's a suitor is fine. And since the goddess gets to decide who survives in the end, he'd feel justified in taking the role without saying anything.
On the other hand, yeah, the cards are blanked and someone(staff?) was shuffling around at night. It didn't sound like anybody went into her room, just that they were wandering outside of it at night(although she fell asleep with them sti out there but surely we would've heard the door). . which honestly could have been Alan, being lost. Or the staff. Katsuragi was still writing/editing the script or something. . .so something is/was getting changed or documented. Swapping is also a possibility, if not by participants then by staff or the Flower Witch. . .but my money is kinda on 'Alan got lost and ended up out there.'
