POISON GAME: avante en garde

[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

[deicider]

Antidote, Heart Soldier.

Keeping the water.

RESULTS

[ghostofissues]

[ Two of the stands descend into the floor, leaving the water behind. The ground closes up behind them, but opens up again a moment later in a different place, a new vial rising up out of the ground: one with a tiny lotus on top.

Despite the texture, the lotus drink tastes like nothing.

Characters won't know this until they drink it, but the lotus drink is the antidote. ]

Re: RESULTS

[haktualdragon]

[welp.

GOING FOR IT]

[knightceties]

[SHOVES OUT OF THE WAY]

Re: RESULTS

[deicider]

Raijuu, Hiryuu doesn't need you drinking poison right now.

Re: RESULTS

[calmthefoxdown]

[ W... atching Raijuu and Ace fight for this I guess. ]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[knightceties]

Nice and simple this time, huh?

Re: DISCUSSION

[haktualdragon]

... so the solution is drink the water, send antidote to a unit.

Re: DISCUSSION

[calmthefoxdown]

[ At one point in my life here I believed that would be the clear and easy solution, but now... ]

Do we believe that's how everyone will play?

Re: DISCUSSION

[haktualdragon]

If they're smart.

But there's not a whole lot of smart types. So...

If we get a poison, I'll volunteer to drink it.

[knightceties]

What happens if we get sent poison?

Re: DISCUSSION

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Ah, so this is how I die. By poison. ]

So this game purely depends on whether people value others, or winning.

Re: DISCUSSION

[unbr8kable]

Don’t a lot of em?

Re: DISCUSSION

[calmthefoxdown]

Sort of. There's a clear way out in this one; the only reason someone would send off a poison is to win, revenge, or if they think poison will be sent their way.

Re: DISCUSSION

[deicider]

So who do we send it to?

Wild City? I can't think of anyone else who would send to them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[calmthefoxdown]

... I have a bias toward that, but I don't know if Wild City has anyone who would send them poison. Bad End, maybe, after the last game? I don't really know their feelings on that.

[deicider]

Bad End won't poison them. I don't think ZRAEL will poison us, either.

[knightceties]

We'll probably get at least one poison, though...

[deicider]

I don't think ZRAEL would risk poisoning us, and neither would Taisho.

Re: DISCUSSION

[unbr8kable]

Why? They'll keep the antidote for themselves.

[deicider]

I don't think they will. Not after the last game; they can't afford to be aggressors twice in a row, and they know Bad End won't poison them out of spite.

Re: DISCUSSION

[haktualdragon]

[... i'm. extremely biased in my answer.

gonna keep quiet when politics come into play on who to send it to]

[deicider]

[catching Raijuu's look.]

I don't think anyone's going to poison Heart Soldier. Do you?