POISON GAME: BAD END=DEAD END

[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

[justfuckingtryit]

If people aren't assholes in the first place, there won't be harm to mitigate.

[He pauses a beat. He's already seen that people are assholes.]

How many units are going to send the poison?

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Who knows. Not us, obviously, not HSS, not AlcheME. I would estimate maybe Wild City. I doubt Avante or Taisho but I don't know for sure. Zrael is a bit who knows, and I don't know future is now well enough but I don't think they would. SensitIV is hard to say but I don't think they'd want to hurt anyone. And then Pep! Pep! we have no idea how they play.

There's way too many unknowns I guess, is the point. It's not that I think anyone is a jerk, Thorn, but everyone has someone to protect, usually on their own unit, and not everyone on every unit is as willing to go down flipping the hosts off as we are, so playing to protect themselves wouldn't be something I could blame.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

...

I fucking hate this. Just for the record.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Yeah. Me too. It really really sucks.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

So I guess the real question is, who're the teams who send the poison going to send it to?

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

I keep hearing people are mad at avante...? But I do know Taisho wasn't that popular when I got taken.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Cause that one guy pulled a dick fucking move.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

...? What'd I miss?

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

He pulled the trigger on the other team's hostage before anyone had a chance to even try and get started figuring out the puzzle.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

No I know why Taisho is having a hard time. But why Avante?

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Sounds like they told that guy if he did it again, they'd make sure it was the last time he ever did it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Threats are really not a good precedent...

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

They are if they keep someone from getting murdered next time.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Are they? These games are designed to pressure us. I don't agree with what Yasuragi did but I think threatening someone over panicking over hostages, no matter how justified the anger, is just... Playing right into what they're trying to make us do to each other, without really finding a better solution.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Panic I could see. But was it panic?

That fucker looked pretty godsdamned smug to me.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

I can't speak for him but I don't think it was out of spite.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

He wouldn't even speak for him. Don't you fucking defend him if he didn't have an excuse.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

I like him a lot but I'm not going to pretend he's not an asshole. But he's a really awkward asshole who sucks as emotions and probably wouldn't defend himself whatever his reasons.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Seems like a pretty big benefit of the doubt to give for some douche who straight up murdered someone.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

You were there Thorn. There's a big difference between murder and murder in defense of yourself or another. Do I think he did the right thing? Hell no. He could have given Cardigan time. Do I think he's a vile villain for wanting to protect his own unit and being too trigger happy about it...? No. I don't. I just think he's an idiot.

That's not something to condemn someone for. Everyone fucks up. Bad End has fucked up before, we will again.

Whisky, the guy who waited on Wild City? He's probably way more of a ruthless person than Yasuragi, he's just also more predictable, because he doesn't feel emotions right. Do you think that killing Cardigan was a calculated move? Because I can only view it as stupid and emotional.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Damn straight I was there. And what I saw was murder.

Everyone else had the fucking decency to wait. Everyone else gave the unit they were up against a fighting chance.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Everyone else hadn't just watched someone burn to death the round before. It's not called panic when you're making rational and calm, unemotional decisions.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

He couldn't have waited fifteen fucking minutes?

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Look I'm not defending him, but I'm saying thinking he's emotionless or heartless is... It's kind of the opposite.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

That's not an excuse.