POISON GAME: WILD CITY

[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

[eatsthecanary]

Oh.

[ shrugs. ]

That part I'm less picky about. As long as it's someone who wouldn't have an antidote, right?

[zugzwange]

Do you think people are playing 'who is likely to send poison to us' or 'who is likely to not have the antidote' or 'other people are thinking who is likely to not have the antidote so I should think past that'? Really how smart do we consider the rest of the units here?

[eatsthecanary]

I don't know. But I can guess some people on Taisho and Avante would be out to protect themselves. Heart Soldier ... a team like that, would absolutely give their antidote away.

[zugzwange]

. . . ah. . . . I wonder which side of the fence I should go with that one. . .

[eatsthecanary]

Do you care too much either way?

[zugzwange]

Actually, I don't.

[eatsthecanary]

So sending poison to HSS would be fine?

[zugzwange]

Is that your preferred target?

[eatsthecanary]

Not really, but I wanted to know if it was yours.

[zugzwange]

They're all the same, really, except SensitIV.

Anyway, I need to ask you a favor.

[eatsthecanary]

Yeah? That's rare. What is it?

[zugzwange]

I'm playing a game called 'protect Aries at all costs even against his will', want to join?

[eatsthecanary]

Sounds good to me. He wants to keep the poison, I'm guessing?

1/2

[zugzwange]

One favor in return is yours, then.

[zugzwange]

I don't think that's his actual preference, but, and I quote [ imitation of Aries voice ] "I don't mind not sending the poison, as long as I'm the one that drinks whatever comes back."

[eatsthecanary]

Isn't he supposed to be our leader?

[zugzwange]

All leaders have flaws. Sometimes the footmen need to protect the prince, or something like that.

[eatsthecanary]

Right. I'm saying it's flawed for a leader to take a bullet like that.

So would you drink the poison instead?

[zugzwange]

Right? Well, we'll just have to train him to accept it.

[ waves a hand, loose wristed ]

Of course. Silver wants to but I'm sure we can agree I'm more disposable.

[eatsthecanary]

I don't think you're disposable. But if we're talking on a relative scale you're more disposable than him, sure.

[zugzwange]

Ehhh~? Really? I'm so touched ♥ Whisky is too kind!

[ hm hm ]

But yes, that's what I mean. Everything has to be ranked logically, doesn't it.

[eatsthecanary]

[ don't make him change his mind!! ]

Right. And even from Silver's perspective ... wouldn't it look bad if we let him take the poison?

[zugzwange]

Exactly and he has to have more friends on different units than me, a twin even! So the choice is only logical.

[eatsthecanary]

He doesn't like it.

[zugzwange]

Well, obviously.