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

[grandschemed]

Hope that's not the new pattern.

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

Me too.

[a pause]

Do you have any preferences for this one?

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandschemed]

... I think -- I'm okay with what other people want -- sendin' out the antidote. But I wanna be the one that takes the vials that come our way.

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

[hmmm]

...I was considering taking them myself.

[the others have been through enough, honestly.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandschemed]

I'm not too keen on the idea of you takin' 'em either.

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

I feel the same way about you.

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandschemed]

... I've seen these guys hurt lotsa times. When I wasn't there -- to do anythin' for 'em, to protect 'em. I wanna give them something back.

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

[She can understand the logic.

She sighs.

Why are you such a good dog.

She's gonna reach up to touch his face though.]

And you want to take all of them?

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandschemed]

Mm.

[ a quiet acknowledgement, tilting his face towards that ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

[A huff.]

I don't like it. But I can respect it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandschemed]

Thanks. Next time we can all share, yeah?

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

[assuming he's talking about another game with poisons or something]

No, next time I get dibs.

[look she's not letting everyone on the team poison themselves, ok]

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandschemed]

Ya might have to fight someone on that, but I'm okay with it. I know -- it's prolly hard watchin' everyone jump to take the bullet too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[searingedgelord]

Yeah, a little. I'm not really in a hurry to get hurt, but I feel like most of this team has been through enough.