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

[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?

[sleeplessknight]

[quiet for a moment, thinking]




... I think I'd rather protect a team that has a high chance of being hit.

Everything else should be irrelevant right now.

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[Smiles at her, and nods]

Okay. That's a good answer.

[sleeplessknight]

[hi, you're getting an armful of Sunset]

Thank you so much.

[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.

[sleeplessknight]

...

[nods]

Yeah, you're right Senpai, let's choose Wild City. We're not here to judge people's actions, but to help them if we can.

[this is probably the first time she calls him anything other than jerk]

[worldlyafflictions]

[awkwardly to everybody]

Wow. This is a lot.

[sleeplessknight]

[laughs, nervously]

We're getting there, though.