The Last Supper - Pep!Pep! & Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

[ The elevator lets you out into a private room: from the decor, it is doubtlessly an enclave of the restaurant you saw earlier on screen.

Your phones have filled with a rather sizable rule list. ]

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[dragonheartedgirl]

[ boy she sure does too. ]

Boss, on Bad End... once told me in games that "everyone betrays." At the time, he was half out of his mind. However... their team has been in the corner a number of times so they would understand.

AlcheME is also another solid choice. They understand our usual stance of as-little-violence as possible. And I know that if we offer proper recompense after it's over, they'll forgive us.

.... For a unit that would fight back the most... Taisho, avante, and Wild City. I want to attack them all the least, though--for personal reasons.

...

If we wanted to target a team that will mostly be attempting to eliminate teams, though, and aren't afraid of the costs, then Azrael would be the one to choose. No doubt they'll be aiming for hearts. However, we could end up attacking another team by accident, if more than one team went after them. There's also no guaranteeing they won't escalate things and simply attempt to slaughter us all.

[ what a headache. ]

[malignstar]

Going after any of the teams that are known to fight back means that everyone else is going to be thinking the same thing. If you say the punks and wizards will get your drift, it sounds like they're the only choice that won't backfire.

What about bad blood between units? I know you and the goths have had some messy encounters. What about the others?

[dragonheartedgirl]

Taisho and avante are poor choices because some of their members have shown to have poor impulse control even when being attacked as humans. They are also regularly hit hard and after everything that happened because of Cardigan and Yasuragi recently--they're probably expecting to be hit. Hurricane, Primrose and I all have friends from back home on those teams--and my boyfriends are there, too. So if we can avoid them, then at all costs, they would be my last choices.

As for bad blood... we've not really had any encounters with anyone in games that have resulted in feuding. However, Azrael, as you've mentioned, is one we've butted heads with outside of games. They're also unlikely to become upset or to change their method of playing no matter what we do.

Wild City on the other hand has made it explicitly clear to us that if they get targeted in games they'll play to hurt people. So we should avoid them.

Bad End or AlcheME are our other best choices. However, they are our friends.

[ like. SHE'S NOT TRYING TO SUGGEST WE SHOULD ATTACK THE PEOPLE THAT ATTACK PEOPLE BUT UH. hmn. ]

[malignstar]

Well, I admit to have preferences to avoid the knights.

And Wild City has shown to have no problems going hard.

But I didn't mean just you, I meant bad blood between units in general. I want to full scope of the dynamics we're dealing with. I think it was the healers that got attacked that time so that's one. Something about avante and Taisho at each other's throats so that's two. What else is there?

I only brought up your friends because they're less likely to get petty if we miss the heart. We go after the others and they might just keep going after us. Though, that would take their attention from the other units.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Avante and Taisho have fought. At one point, there was bad blood between Taisho and Bad End, too, and Bad End and Alcheme. However, those situations seem to have been more or less resolved.

[malignstar]

There's no way Maki would let her unit target her boyfriend's unit. And I don't see either the wizards or the punks holding grudges for long. That first set though... that could still be a problem.

[dragonheartedgirl]

There's risks no matter what. In past games, Wild City and Azrael have rarely been targeted, whereas more popular teams like Taisho and avante have been devastated with multiple attacks.

And Maki might not intentionally let her team target her boyfriend's unit--but depending on who they do target, they could be redirected. So there's an element of chance to this no matter what we try to choose.

What about future is now?

[malignstar]

Aren't they our partner? Also, no.

[sleeplessknight]

I'd rather not attack FiN.

[we_meet_again]

[He was warned about ☆ZRAEL before but UH.]

...On the other hand, if we do target ☆ZRAEL, we'd only have a one in seven chance of accidentally targeting their heart. Even if we do wind up fighting another team, the odds will still be the same. The odds are one in five if we target a less populated team, like alcheME or avante.

[dragonheartedgirl]

That's a good point. However, we won't know if many people won't have the same thoughts--we might end up butting heads with other teams unintentionally if we choose them.

In the end, the best thing that we can do is try to resolve that no matter what the outcome, we won't hold any grudges at the end of this, and do our best to make amends with whoever we choose. But we're running out of time.

[ SO WE REALLY GOTTA CHOSE ]

[we_meet_again]

Yeah... there's always the chance that we get redirected into another team, but since that'll be up to chance, there's no way they other team could take it personally, you know? If they attack ☆ZRAEL and get us instead, it's not because they were targeting us.

On the other hand... yeah, we could wind up in combat with one of the people we specifically want to protect...

[WHY IS EVERY OPTION AWFUL]

[sleeplessknight]

[after listening for a bit]

... I think it's okay if we end up having to fight someone else who also targeted ☆ZRAEL. If it turns out so many people want to target them, then... at least that's one way to alleviate that already built-in.

The only problem there would be that they will know we tried to attack them in the first place and retaliate, but... considering they will still be trying to attack other people anyway, it... probably doesn't make a difference.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...I don't think anything we do can make Zrael play any harder than they're planning to play already.

[sleeplessknight]

Yeah... that's kinda my logic.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Agreed. Those of them who want blood will probably always want blood. And if we end up attacking someone unintentionally--the same will be true for them. We'll just have to trust they'll understand it was all bad luck and let us make it up to them.

[malignstar]

If you're going after the goths, I don't want any of you to do it personally.

[dragonheartedgirl]

I'd say there are a great many things that everyone here "wants" and none of it is any of this. Just what exactly do you mean by not doing it "personally?" We don't exactly have many choices here.

[crossmyheartandhope]

What do you mean, personally?

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Literally every option is terrible.]

...I second steering clear of Avante.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Do you have any problems with Azrael, Bad End, or alcheMe as possible choices? Or... alternative suggestions...?

[ don't say taisho, please don't say taisho. ]

[crossmyheartandhope]

I'd rather not hit Alcheme, if we can help it.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Wire would be very upset if we went after them first.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I'd be kinda upset if we went after them first.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ i mean yes but that was already apparent and assumed. ]

I know. .... We'll try do our best to avoid them, too, if possible.