The Last Supper - future is now

[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. ]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Don't fucking choose me.

Also you're forgetting 4. Who is going to be most fucked up after the game if they have to participate in this fucking garbage?

[metafaliure]

It didn't cross my mind.

And we're all participating whether we become monsters or not. Watching all that happen is not going to be any easier. So that's something else to consider.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Depends how you handle the different types of guilt. What bothers you the most, Bell: the thought of killing someone, the thought of dying when you have no way to protect yourself, or the thought that your death will result in the rest of your unit suffering?

[metafaliure]

They're all equally bad!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And doesn't that just mean it doesn't matter what role you play in this?

[metafaliure]

[ sigh ]

I don't have a preference. I'll be a monster if I must.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I was thinking either you or Infinity should be the heart.

[metafaliure]

I had been drawing the same conclusion myself. Infinity likes the irony; she's also visible enough that I don't think she'd be another unit's first choice for someone to take out.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You don't feel the same applies to you? Even after you drank the poison in the last game?

[metafaliure]

I think people think I'm an idiot. I don't know how that translates to this game.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I think most people would think that we wouldn't want the same unitmate to get hit twice in a row. Which might give Infinity a slight edge on being chosen as the heart.

[metafaliure]

It's possible... it really might come down to just a coin flip in the end, between the two of us.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ha! Going to leave that to chance?

[metafaliure]

Well, if they're trying to reverse-engineer our logic they won't be able to follow it past a coinflip anyway.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course not.

Which just leaves our play strategy.

[metafaliure]

Did you have anything in mind?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

As I was telling Infinity, we have three options - or three options worth considering anyone.

First, we try to find the other hearts and end this game as quick as possible.

Second, we only go after people who aren't going to get fucking destroyed over being killed in a game.

Or third, you let me settle some of my own personal grudges and let the fallout be on me being an fucking insufferable asshole instead of on the entire unit.

...

Though we saw how the last option worked out for Taisho in the last Exael game.

[metafaliure]

... Let's go for the first one.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Let me clarify that strategy 1 is only as good as our ability to pick out the other unit's hearts.

[And we are all emotionally incompetent. How are we supposed to guess what other people are thinking?]

[metafaliure]

...

Honestly, we might as well just roll dice for it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

You want to leave trauma up to chance?

[metafaliure]

Why not? All the options are bad. At least a roll of the dice is fair.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Hah. Fair.

Fine.

Then would you do the honors? We're running out of time.