POISON GAME: Taisho Roman Revolution

[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

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

My immediate inclination is to drink the water and send the antidote, but... I also don't know that we can rely on everyone's good will, after the last game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollplayinghouse]

People also wouldn't appreciate us sending them poison after last time, I imagine.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

[grimaces]

An excellent point.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollplayinghouse]

...Well, there's no point in keeping the poison. So if we're not sending it, then it's a question of whether we send the antidote and keep the water or vice-versa.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

If we keep the antidote we have to send the poison. It's a rule, unfortunately.

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

You cannot keep the antidote without sending the poison. The only option at that rate is keeping the water.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah... right. That does make our options limited.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

We aren't keeping or sending the poison. That means our options are to send the antidote and keep the water, or... well, no, that's really the only option.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollplayinghouse]

Right. That's simple enough, then. We just have to decide who to send it to.

...Avante, maybe?

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

...That would be appropriate, I think.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollplayinghouse]

And it is possible someone will send them poison.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

After that display? Extremely possible.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rollplayinghouse]

...That's my vote, then.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

All right. I'll ask the others.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artisticliberty]

That was going to be my suggestion, as well. Do you think there are teams that dislike us enough to send poison without an antidote?

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

In the last game we caused something of a ruckus, so it's possible. I'd like to think they aren't that vindictive, but I also know better than to think I can rely on that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artisticliberty]

... if we assume there are teams holding grudges against us, what does that mean for our safety?

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

We might be fucked. But we might not be. It's very much up in the air, and entirely based on decisions we have no control over.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artisticliberty]

And the winning criteria--those who poison others. The temptation to send poison without sending the antidote is high.

I do not wish to sabotage another team for the sake of our survival, but I don't wish to sacrifice our well-being, either.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

I understand that.

The options in this game ultimately come down to playing defensively and ruining someone else, playing neutrally and defending someone else, or fucking ourselves over entirely. I personally favor playing neutrally and hoping for the best.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artisticliberty]

I have no objections to that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hashtagaesthetic]

...I'm sorry this is your first game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[artisticliberty]

I was warned that this sort of thing could happen, so I do not need any apologies.