WILD CITY

[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

[rollyourluck]

That'll be... [ looking at menu ]

Plant taking root, wolf, vampires, and snakes?

I think it'll be a good use of one of our yes/no questions.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

[ hurrying to get that question in ]

What other things can we group together? The larger a group we can try to rule out, the better.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

Maybe levels of danger?

Too much caffeine and a toothache don't seem too bad, compared to the others.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

Silver's idea of danger and my idea of danger are going to be very different.

... We could try asking where he is. It may rule out some of the location-based options.

Re: DISCUSSION

[earthquaked]

[ oops i'm here promise ]

Or ask if torture is involved. I think a lot of these are technically torture.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

Torture might be too broad... We could try asking if he's in pain.

Re: DISCUSSION

[earthquaked]

Or ask if there's an tool involved. If it's a no then it knocks out a lot of stuff.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

Oh, that's a good one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

...honestly, yeah.

That question could work. There's a couple illnesses, maybe we could ask him about those too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

What about his temperature? We could ask what his temperature is, and that may rule out the fire or freezing options too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

That could even rule out fever too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

Exactly. At the very least it will rule out fever and fire, or freezing. If we're lucky they'll all be ruled out.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

[ image ]

A dock...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

The ocean. It has to mean cold. ...and maybe drowning.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

[ sigh why is intelligence my dump stat again? ]

But we can probably rule out fire and fever though?

Maybe consumption too?

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

Maybe...

... We should ask him what his greatest fear is right now. He could give us a lot of information with that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

Hm, that'll help us figure out the most dangerous thing, yeah.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

[ An image ]

Drowning is seeming more and more likely...

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

Then let's see if we can narrow down the others.

[ blinking at the clown gate ]

That's... a thing.

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

That's...unsettling. It is about objects, so perhaps the toys...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

[ a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ioc3GFLKc-rYefCbiO88V39lgehGs6j-LpzfEb0uJMSIBb0AHawc-IJwPxjuaEDtgucDy-ANxGX9FFhjoxc1YCfdVKahCGIwKjY8b1XZYnXg5nx671J9WpMbHmAqQ4ud00njdftJ">looks delicious ]

So... maybe shellfish?

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

Maybe? Toys, drowning, and shellfish?

... I am certain about the risk of drowning, but we should confirm the other two.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

Do we wanna use our last two yes/no questions for that?

Re: DISCUSSION

[iamverybadass]

...I think we need to use at least one of them. I would prefer to ask about the shellfish first, and we can decide whether to use the second yes/no once we have that answer. If he says no, we can return to open ended questions to try to identify the true third danger.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollyourluck]

[ considers it and nods ]

Yeah, alright, sounds like a plan.