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

[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.

[heroicsacrifeyes]

We don't have to protect Avante if you don't want to. I think there are plenty of other people here who would want to protect them, so we don't have to get involved with them.

[sleeplessknight]

[takes a deep breath, then shakes her head]

I can't use my own morals to decide, because if I do that, then nobody here is a good choice. They've all chosen to hurt someone or threatened to hurt someone.

[heroicsacrifeyes]

If that's the case, then your choice would be to protect a team that hasn't hurt someone. That's okay to say as well. We're only making wild guesses here, trying to protect someone who'll likely be hit. But anyone could be picked.

[sleeplessknight]

No! No! That's not right! These teams are the least popular ones for a reason, right?! And none of them have tried to hurt us so far, so thinking that way is pointless! It feels wrong to measure how worthy they are of an antidote like this!

[huffs

then, in a tiny voice]

Can't we just randomize it?

[heroicsacrifeyes]

...That might make the decision easier on us, but... I'm not sure that's a good idea.

[sleeplessknight]

[chuckles, weak and humorlessly]

No, no, it's fine. That was a joke. Mostly.

Don't worry about me, I'll be happy as long as everyone else is happy with our choice.

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Hey, Sunset-chan, what about if we look at the problem from another angle?

The reason we're so uneasy about ☆ZRAEL is that they're wild cards who would probably play hard, right? So why don't we try to protect who we think they'd hit.

Senpai thinks it would be Heart Soldier Senshi.

[sleeplessknight]

Ah...

[yeah, she FOR SURE doesn't want to see HSS get hit]

I... yeah, that sounds like a good idea to me, but what if the other teams end up without antidotes...

[sorry she can't not overthink this]

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Which would your morality allow for?

Do you want to protect a team that has a high chance of being hit, but has hurt people when they felt they had to?

Or do you want to protect a team that has a lower chance of being hit, but hasn't hurt anyone?

We don't know nearly enough about these units and the politics going on, we don't know what the games have forced people to do before, so we can only do what we think is best, regardless of what everyone else does. What do you want, Sunset-chan?

[neverbeentogeorgia]

Either the red head's team or Wild City are solid choices. However, the red head's also got plenty of friends around--maybe a boyfriend, too, from the looks of things.

[ hi, i'm not stalking everyone through Lives, what do you mean, ]

Someone will do something for them. On the other hand, Wild City seems standoffish and not well engaged. I haven't met a single one of them since I showed up--and I bet most of you haven't, either. If you want to make sure someone gets protected who needs protecting--that would be my bet.

[worldlyafflictions]

[awkwardly to everybody]

Wow. This is a lot.

[worldlyafflictions]

If Taisho's on the other side of the conflict then they're out too, aren't they? That leaves Wild City.

[neverbeentogeorgia]

It seems to me avante and Taisho probably have enough friends to protect 'em, considering how busy that spectacle was. Let's take the neutral option.

[sleeplessknight]

Yeah, but Wild City also chose to sacrifice someone last game.

They waited until the very last moment, but.

[but they still did it]

[worldlyafflictions]

It's only what I picked up from the live, but the waiting was pretty much the main difference between making an effort ta work with everybody 'n just going rogue.

[sleeplessknight]

Mm, mm. But that's still...

[exhales]

I can't choose, I'll feel bad no matter what and I'm not good enough at all the politics stuff yet. So... I'll just go along with everyone else's choice!

[worldlyafflictions]

Haha... They really must be going easy on us after all if we can just debate it like this together without getting mad at each other...

[Slaps her on the biceps and then rubs them up and down, SHAKE IT OFF SET-CHAN]

[sleeplessknight]

[asdghf, lets out a tiny surprised yelp]

I don't want to be mad at you guys! We're all just trying our best here! I trust you all!

[we_meet_again]

From what I understand, they made that decision to save someone, not kill the other. If they hadn't done it, both would have died. Right?

[neverbeentogeorgia]

At some point, somebody's gotta make a choice unless you wanna lose em both. Seems practical enough to me.

[we_meet_again]

[how could they have done something so controversial yet so brave]

[neverbeentogeorgia]

[ If you think Senpai wou-- no wait actually he'd rather die than beg god for help so hmn. ]

[sleeplessknight]

Yeah...

[but why can't we save everyone]

[malignstar]

We know nothing about Wild City. Sounds like a good way to test the waters.