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]

That's not an excuse.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Is there any excuse here, Thorn? We're all put in the same shitty situation with the same choices. Of course I think everyone should have more faith in the people around them, should give more of a chance, should be more willing to trust and forgive and fight to stay optimistic.

But part of that, I think, is not falling into the trap, and it's definitely an engineered trap, of condemning people for the choices they make when the gun is pressed to all our heads.

My first bad game with this unit we made a mistake that cost someone on Taisho and AlcheME each, permanently. We fucked up really bad and our only defense was we didn't mean to, which is a shitty defense.

It's easy to point at someone else and ask why didn't you do better when everyone else had no problem with it? But... I don't think it's ever that simple, I don't think it ever will be, and blaming each other for cracking under the pressure of this place isn't going to help any of us. We don't have to agree with, like, or even defend bad decisions. But I think if we stop having compassion and trying to understand them, we're not just letting ourselves get set up to fail by the hosts here, we're helping them do it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

...so, what? We just look the other way when people make dick moves and get other people killed?

I get it, okay? We're jumping through their hoops, and they want us to be shitty to each other. That's why it's so fucked that that asshole walked right into their plan.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

No. But I'd rather talk it out than make threats, you know? But... That's me. And I'm not going to tell you what to do either, if you ever feel like you need to do something.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Good. Cause if I ever feel like I need to do something, I'm just going to do it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[awakenerd]

Pretty sure that's how we all are. But I think if you ever needed support we'd be here too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[justfuckingtryit]

Don't worry. I'm not planning on getting myself into something I can't handle.