CAPTIVE GAME: Heart Soldier Senshi & Challah

[idolpro]

[ You're in a room with no doors or windows, about the size of a living room. Depending on how many of you are around, it might feel a little cramped. The walls and ceiling are draped with fabrics, the floor covered in colorful rugs and piles of sitting cushions, but you can see the dirt ground and untreated wood walls peeking through in places. There are three or so oil lamps to light the space, each placed on a stump-like round little table that isn't big enough to hold much else. It's kind of cozy, but...

Most of the cushions are embroidered with an array of colors, but there's one pillow in particular, set aside from the rest, that's solid black – King's position color. ]

Comments

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

So you plan to let King be tortured to the full extent of this game?

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

I plan to trust whoever has him not to be a dick.

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

Well, I don't. Have people seemed kind and restrained to you, these last few games?

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

Maybe they would be if people didn't just jump right in with torture. You ever think of that?

[Going to try and untie Challah,]

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[Moves in front of him to physically stop him.]

Even if that's true, it's not going to do any good for him now. Are you willing to sacrifice him for that outlook?

Re: CAPTIVE

[polarislight]

[Look, I literally just got here, but so far I've seen you stop two people from trying to free the hostage, so she says, flatly,

You can't seriously be thinking about going along with this.

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[What. Who are you. Why are you here.]

Obviously I am. We just need to make her cry, and then we'll save King. Don't try to speak when you don't know anything about the situation.

Re: CAPTIVE

[polarislight]

There are many things I know nothing about right now. [Uh, basically everything, as it would happen.] But I know that harming the defenseless is wrong. [She lets out a breath through her nose. Despite her moral outrage, she also heard that part about rescuing 'one of their own'. So...there's someone else in a similar situation?]

Who is 'King'?

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[Through his teeth, furious and impatient]

Our unitmate, and my literal king. I served as his priest before this place. I've sworn then and now to defend him.

Re: CAPTIVE

[polarislight]

['Before this place'? ....no, deal with that later.]

....so somewhere else, some other group of people are having this same conversation while he sits, presumably equally bound and helpless as this person.

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

That's correct. And I can assure you it's likely they are being much less restrained. Every moment we talk is another moment he may be suffering.

Re: CAPTIVE

[polarislight]

Misguided though it may be, I think I have a bit more faith in human nature than you do. [So she's not sure she's assured that somebody is swinging an axe at his head as they speak.]

....the goal is simply to make her cry? Would cutting an onion or telling a heartwrenching story suffice?

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

You haven't seen what happens here.

[grits his teeth again]

By the rules, anything would suffice, but we need to act.

Re: CAPTIVE

[polarislight]

...I want to be clear that this doesn't sit right with me. It's still victimization of someone innocent. It is only preferable to brutalization.

[But somebody else is trying the onion stuff...so...she's not going to interfere.]

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Trying to go around him]

Dude, we ain't hurting her. Would you listen to yourself?

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[moving again]

I hear myself loud and clear! I'm willing to take the necessary actions to help him!

Are you listening to me? Because you seem to have ignored my question. Are you willing to sacrifice him? Do you think his pain and suffering is an acceptable consequence?

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

I think this game is BS, and they're trying to make us do a bunch of crap no one wants to do.

[Trying to go around again]

Of course I don't want them to hurt him! What kinda question is that? But we're not gonna sit here and torture someone who's tied up. We just ain't.

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

We're also not going to let her free and sit around here doing nothing while King is tortured. At least use your brain a tiny bit.

[He steps aside]

Fine. Let her free if you like. But we need to make her cry.

[this is how compromising works right]

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Going to step forward and immediately untie her]

We can do that without hurting her, dude. We'll chop an onion or something.

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

Are there any onions here?!

[Voice rising in anger (and distress)]

I don't care what we do, but we need to do it quickly.

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

Phones are on, dude. We can order whatever.

[Going to order an onion]

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

...There's no way that's going to work...

[but after he watches him he opens up his own phone


and tries ordering some tear gas, just in case]

Re: CAPTIVE

[crossmyheartandhope]

It's better than pulling fingernails, and we gotta try something.

Re: CAPTIVE

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ swatting his shoulder, not very hard, just YOU CAN'T TALK TO LITTLE OLD LADIES LIKE THAT ]

You shouldn't speak to her like that! She's your elder, and it's not her fault she doesn't know.

Re: CAPTIVE

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[he can though]

I don't care. She needs to shut up until we get this done.