POISON GAME: future is now

[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

[scarvedforlife]

Because it means you won, or because you need the points?

[glaring]

The former. Winning also means not losing, you know. [ Sigh. ] But it's understandable that everyone here wants the same thing.

[scarvedforlife]

But the winning condition here is poisoning someone else. In that case, it wouldn't matter if we didn't survived our poison, because we poisoned someone else successfully.

[glaring]

[ he's getting a look. ]

I feel like being poisoned at all would be losing...

[scarvedforlife]

Only at life. People survive poisonings!

[ We probably wouldn't but still. ]

[glaring]

We are not going to survive this poisoning and you know it!

[scarvedforlife]

I know, but a decision made in this game could affect future games is what I'm worried about here. If we get a rep for playing a certain way, people counteract, right?

[glaring]

They're going to do it anyway.

[scarvedforlife]

But if we're the good and friendly unit, no one thinks that we'll play hard, so they won't play hard against us... I think.

[glaring]

Do you really want to be known for that?