Future is Now

[idolpro]

[ Minus your missing unitmate, you emerge in this room. There's enough room for your whole team to crowd into a booth, and discuss and speculate on your missing unitmate's predicament. After all, the rules displaying on your phone has just informed you that it's up to you to figure out what happened to them, and their fate hangs in the balance of just how well you can figure it out in time.

A little hourglass in the center of the table informs you of each ten minutes that passes. It sits next to a "menu"-- a list of 36 possible terrible things, three of which are happening to your unitmate, right now. ]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

[trying to psych herself up even though this is terrifying]

It's not a yes or no question, but I think I might have one that'll help a little... What about: "Can you show us which parts of your body are in danger of being harmed?" That could point us towards more specific options.

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

Ah... that will help narrow it down just as well. Please go ahead, Gadget.

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

On it!

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

[looking at the picture]

...

I do not understand this symbolism.

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

That looks like an environment where "being crushed" is very possible? Also somewhere you could "fall from a great height"?

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

[—!]

So it could be literal.

"Falling from a great height?" "Being crushed?" "Complex fracture?"

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

Fractured! Yeah, that could also be a possibility! It's hard to say how literal he's being, but I'd think he'd pick an image that would make it easier for us to figure out. I hope so anyways.

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

[nods]

Should we ask to confirm with a yes or no question, or try to narrow it down further with another image?

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

Maybe narrowing it down again? But how...

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

...asking if it is more than two words? Silence is poor at identifying themes.

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

That could work, but both "complex fracture" and "being crushed" are only two words.

[thinking]

We could just take a chance and ask if one is "being crushed"? That seems like the obvious implication from that picture to me, but IDK. Then we'd only have one yes or no left too...

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

That strategy is fine. Time is running out. We need to act sooner than later.