POISON GAME: pep!pep!

[idolpro]

[ The room is plain, white walls and white ceiling, except for the steel-panel flooring. There are three metal stands rising out of openings in the floor, each of which carries a glass vial on top. One of them just holds water. Of the remaining two, one contains a pale pink, opaque liquid with a creamy consistency; the next is tinged barely yellow like a weak tea, and would be almost completely transparent but for the pulp and fibers mixed in, drifting through it.

Both have flowers floated across the surface: the first a tiny sprinkling of cherry blossom petals; the second a small, but whole, bloomed lotus. They're cute and smell nice. ]

Comments

DECISION

[idolpro]

[ Name the vial you will send and the unit you will send it to, and the vial you will keep to drink. Since this is a one-round game, there's no hard deadline; the game will end as soon as all units' decisions are in. ]

Re: DECISION

[heroicsacrifeyes]

We're keeping the water. Please send our antidote to Wild City.

RESULTS

[ghostofissues]

[ Two of the stands descend into the floor, leaving the water behind. The ground closes up behind them, but opens up again a moment later in a different place, a new vial rising up out of the ground: one with a tiny lotus on top.

Despite the texture, the lotus drink tastes like nothing. ]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

So, um...

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

...which one of these is the poison?

Re: DISCUSSION

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[WOW I'M MAD? I'M FURIOUS IN A WAY I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE.]

No.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sleeplessknight]

Sunrise...

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverbeentogeorgia]

[ hair ruffle ]

Easy there Squeakers. Getting mad isn't going to help anybody.

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

I'm good with no. But that means we take the hit when there's only poison on our side.

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

Aww, he's giving us special treatment. How sweet.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sleeplessknight]

Ahh...

[just staring at the rules on her phone, at a loss]

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverbeentogeorgia]

[ cool, what a fun game ]

Looks like they're breaking us in right off the bat.

[worldlyafflictions]

[I know how this is gonna go for us and I'm already resigned.]

So we're sending the antidote, huh. On the plus side, if everybody sends an antidote and drinks the water, we end with one antidote and one poison.

On the minus side we can only guess who's covered.

[we_meet_again]

If we send the antidote and drink the water, the poison gets discarded, right? Am I understanding this correctly?

[heroicsacrifeyes]

We don't have to keep the poison, it would get removed, the rules said.

[lovescomplicated]

Who do you think will be sent poison?

[we_meet_again]

Alright. So if we send the antidote and drink the water, we don't have to poison anyone. We won't win, but we also aren't hurting anyone, and personally I think that's more important.

It means there's a chance we'll get poisoned. But, from what I understand from what Sunset told me, someone made a speech about the importance of minimizing harm in games... right? So now is probably not the time for someone to strike out, is it? I dunno, if someone knows more about this topic than I do, fill me in, okay?

Anyway, the people here don't seem like the types who would hurt others if they could help it, you know?

[malignstar]

Except for one. And they might be in danger for that reason.

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Alright! We need to pick a team to send our antidote to, here are the options we've had of the most likely to be targeted so far:

☆ZRAEL isn't popular, and has made it clear they're willing to hurt people, so would be an obvious choice for others to hit. The issue with that is that they would be the ones most likely to be sending poison out, and we'd be tying ourselves to a team that has that kind of reputation.

Taisho recently hurt someone in a game in a panic, and that could leave them open as a target.

Avante painted a target on themselves with their live advocating out of game murder, but they want to be talked down, and protecting them could do just that.

Wild City also isn't popular, but I don't know enough about them to say much more.

So, which of these four do we think we should go for?

[we_meet_again]

Does anyone know who ☆ZRAEL might target?

[neverbeentogeorgia]

I'd rather go with any of the last three. We're brand new and the last thing we need to do is tie our names to a bunch of nuts that are happy to go on stabbing sprees outside of these clusterfuck "games." At least avante's threat to shank a bitch was as a warning; ☆ZRAEL sounds like they just want to see the world burn.

[lovescomplicated]

We have to think about who we want to be associated with. I don't think assisting ☆ZRAEL is a wise choice.

[sleeplessknight]

[after listening to some of the conversations]

I... I don't feel comfortable showing our support for Avante after that live the other day, but if you guys think this is what might benefit us most in the long run, then I don't mind that choice.

The antidote may or may not end up being useful to the unit in question, but there's a chance we'll still make a statement with it, right? So maybe that's... what we should focus on.

[we_meet_again]

I think it's probably fair to say that none of us know about the personal and team dynamics of this place to make a truly informed decision about what could happen.

It seems like Taisho and Avante both have a lot of friends, so chances are good that others might send them antidotes, too. And some of us are uncomfortable throwing in with the team that just stabbed someone.

Beyond that, it's really anyone's guess where poison is going. Hopefully nowhere!

But if we are having trouble deciding, let's narrow it down. What about either Wild City or HSS?