POISON GAME: AlcheME!

[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

DECISION

[idolpro]

[ Name the vial you will send and the unit you will send it to, and the vial you will keep to drink. Since this is a one-round game, there's no hard deadline; the game will end as soon as all units' decisions are in. ]

Re: DECISION

[afailedmurder]

- Send the antidote to Bad End
- Keep the water

RESULTS

[ghostofissues]

[ Two of the stands descend into the floor, leaving the water behind. The ground closes up behind them, and nothing else appears to take their place. ]

Re: RESULTS

[holdhandsandsing]

[Immediately walks straight over, snags the vial, and downs it entirely. Let's get this over with quickly since everyone is so uncomfortable.]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[afailedmurder]

[sigh]

So, where shall we send the antidote?

[honoraria]

Who's likeliest to need it?

[afailedmurder]

Taisho? But Boss will be thinking the same thing...

Re: DISCUSSION

[filetofish]

What?

[hold on a second--]

How about nowhere?

Re: DISCUSSION

[afailedmurder]

Then you'd have us send out poison?

Re: DISCUSSION

[holdhandsandsing]

To a "unit" that might not get one? Or~... a "unit" that would definitely give theirs away?

Re: DISCUSSION

[afailedmurder]

Precisely. Taisho for the former, Heart Soldier Senshi for the latter...

Re: DISCUSSION

[holdhandsandsing]

[Oh, they're separated from the other units this time. This kind of thing again, though...]

[honoraria]

[keeping quiet and watching everyone else for cues... only now does it occur to him that no one's ever really talked about how AlcheME handles these kinds of games.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[filetofish]

[he's peering cautiously at the vials]

I'm voting for self-preservation.

Re: DISCUSSION

[columbidaring]

What I want to know is how much poison an antidote can cure. 'Cuz we can probably guess at some units who will keep their antidote, so if one antidote can cure all the poison then it's like... safe? To send to them...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[filetofish]

That's what I'm thinking about. If we can make sure we're safe with a good bet we're not actually hurting anybody that's what I want to do.

Re: DISCUSSION

[columbidaring]

That said, if we remove the poison from play and drink water we'll probably be fine. I can't think of anyone who would actively want us dead, and they know that we usually play to minimize harm.

DEMOCRACY

[afailedmurder]

All right, let's do this by vote: Should we send an antidote to a team who might need it or keep it for ourselves while sending the poison to a team we don't think it will harm?

Re: DEMOCRACY

[columbidaring]

I'd like to send the antidote out and remove the poison from play. I don't think anyone will send us poison and I'm afraid that each vial of antidote only neutralizes one vial of poison.

Re: DEMOCRACY

[filetofish]

I vote for keeping the antidote. If we actually poison someone, I'll take the heat.

Re: DEMOCRACY

[holdhandsandsing]

I don't mind sending our "antidote" away.

[He'll just volunteer to drink the poison if it comes their way so it's fine? Clearly. He is also fine with sending the poison away, though, w/e. New kid is new.]

[honoraria]

[unsure. unsure. why does he have to decide this. 8(((]

...I vote for sending the antidote.

[afailedmurder]

I'm fine with sending the antidote. If we end up receiving poison, I can take it.

That brings us to our second question: What team should we send it to? My top three would be Taisho, Heart Soldier Senshi, or Bad End.

[holdhandsandsing]

[r u ok fellow newb. N will be standing over by J, though he doesn't say anything.]