LILIS

[idolpro]

You find yourself in a room like this.



It's a simple theater room with a giant colorful couch for everyone to sit or lie on if they so choose, and on the screen, you'll find a screen with twenty clones of a single, sexy assistant holding boxes, each box being labelled 01-20.

Also by sexy, I mean she's wearing stained sweatpants, crocs that are like 10 years old, and then this shirt. She looks grumpy and put-out, almost like she doesn't wanna be here.

There's also a remote that has the numbers 01-20 for you to press, and also buttons "DEAL" and "NO DEAL".

Oh yeah, and popcorn and soda!

Comments

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

It didn't matter which boxes we chose anyway. What matters is the deal.

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

If I'd chosen properly to begin with, none of this would be happening and we wouldn't have had to worry.

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

And how were you supposed to choose "properly"?

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

By putting any thought into it at all, perhaps.

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

Fine, let's entertain that.

Let's think about it. Pretend you could choose again. What would you do?

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

Perhaps not simply pick the first number that came to mind.

As it is, anything that happens to you two of your is my fault, and I'll do my best to take responsibility.

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

[ flicks her forehead ]

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

[ jerks back a little ]

-- hey.

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

I hate to break it to you, but this game is about random chance. Every box is indistinguishable from the other and you have no other information provided to you besides that—it's just chance. It doesn't matter whether you had a thousand thoughts or no thoughts before you chose the box—there's nothing TO think about.

So shut up about this gratefulness or whatever. If you say this is your fault one more time I'm going to get angry.

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

Random chance does not preclude someone from responsibility. Regardless of whether or not the initial choice is random, the result is still something I should have some duty towards...

... and having three people hurt instead of one is more troublesome for everyone. So I'm not going to be... relaxed, about this.

[ she seems pretty relaxed though. the anxiety is all inside, baby ]

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

No, it's not something you have some duty towards. You didn't do anything. Whether it was you or me or him or all three of us thinking combined, it doesn't matter. This isn't a game about culpability—besides, you didn't get any better odds than I did in showing up to this game.

If you're going to blame yourself for picking the box, you might as well blame us for having the gall to show up. If you're not going to blame us for showing up, you can't blame yourself for picking the box. Pick one or the other but be consistent.

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

...

[ sighs, lightly. ]

Alright.

Re: Discussion

[enlightenedatheist]

[ is this maybe one of the first times if not actually the first time he's harshly shut her down about shit. maybe.

oops ]

. . . Whatever happens, doesn't matter who did it. We'll get through it together.

Re: Discussion

[vitainmorte]

[ to be fair she's not often Like This at him ]

Alright.