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. ]

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[perpetualmotionorphan]

[tilts his head, thinking about it in all fucking seriousness]

I'm not gonna go down without a fight.

[simply]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So survival is your game?

[perpetualmotionorphan]

...is there any other kind of game?

[like

?]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course. We could play to win. Or play to lose.

Those are both viable options.

. . .

Someone has told you that you'll be revived if you die in-game, right?

[perpetualmotionorphan]

[oh right, confusion intensifies]

Aa... Angel mentioned something like that I think. But I don't really know how to believe it. You've seen it happen?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I've died twice.

[And now that he thinks about it...

He's the only one on his unit to die ever.

It's probably proportional to how much of an asshat he is]

[perpetualmotionorphan]

[squint

looks him up and down

you don't appear to have any injury]

And after this 'game' you just get back up, not even crippled?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not even a scar to show for it.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

That sounds way too convenient.

[frowns]

Either way, I don't even know anyone else around here. I'm not interested in sacrificing myself for them. But I'll fight even if it means I might die.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You had to be there.

[Nods at his assessment]

Fair enough.

Our unit is mostly aligned on trying to mitigate out of game tension, but not at the expense of us becoming martyrs who will die on the cross.

So I think you'll fit in just fine.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

There really people around who martyr themselves?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Team Paladin -- better known as Heart Soldier Senshi. And AlcheME! will die for the sake of their PR.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

Huh.

And who're the ones that step on others to get ahead?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

☆ZRAEL. And on the occasion, Wild City but they're not fucking consistent about it.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

Going to go after them, then?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That risks the chance of a re-direct to another unit that I might rather not hit. And strips away the choice of who the final target is.

. . .

This game is really fucking well designed.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

[re-reading the rules again, he appears to be a pretty slow reader]

...even if we find one heart, we don't get to pull out, I got that right?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not until the game ends, no.

So we'd also be betting on people taking a similar strategy as us to end the game quickly.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

Doesn't really look like there's a lot of choice.

[Hm]

Ah, right. What's your name?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Intensity.

And you?

[perpetualmotionorphan]

Don't have one yet. I'm not particularly fond of the one they stuck me with.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looks at the list of names.

And.

Laughs.

Sorry not sorry.]

Oh. There's a lot of good implications there.

I'm sure Infinity will think of something good for you like... Eventuality.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

[actually flustered a little, somehow more than he was flustered over potential cannibalism]

I can decide something on my own, just don't know myself that well yet.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Right. Right. No need to rush.

[perpetualmotionorphan]

[hm]

You the boss, then?