“Okay,” Trickster nodded, “So the first question we ask ourselves is how they want to play this. What do they want? In terms a five-year-old could understand.”
They want to “test” their nominees, in whatever ways suit their fancy. This makes the nominees targets, though for each of most of them, there’s one Slaughterhouse member that probably won’t attack them during this process, and will root for them.
Ah, sorry – /r/explainlikeimfive mode.
The bad people want to find out how good the good people some of them like are at doing bad things, in whatever ways they like. So they will try more to do bad things those good people. But each of the bad people likes one of the good people, and will want the good person they like to win. Now, where are your parents, little buddy?