WED BED BEHEAD: ☆ZRAEL

[idolpro]

[You wake alone with your unit in what appears to be a dressing room. There's nothing on the costume racks right now, but you have vanity seats and a couch to chill on if you like.

On a table in the center of the room, there is an ornate metal box with three slots on top. The slots are labeled with the names of three other units: pep!pep!, Taisho Roman Revolution, & WILD CITY. Next to the box a laminated copy of the IC rules is taped down, and beside it lie four cards:

♦ a green card with a picture of two linked rings and the word "WED"
♦ a blue card with a picture of a rose and the word "BED"
♦ a red card with a picture of a guillotine and the word "BEHEAD"
♦ a purple card with a picture of two circling arrows and the word "INSTEAD"

You have til 9pm PST to submit your votes.]

Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

...It's not like your opinion doesn't matter. We can avoid it. We could choose randomly from all three of them, if there's a reason to do that.

But we can't avoid it without killing someone else instead. So, would you prefer killing pep or Taisho?

[constellationprize]

No - that's wrong, isn't it? Because for the two of you, those aren't acceptable results. pep!pep! is a unit that Sabre's come to care for deeply, and for you, protecting Taisho means that you can protect a member of your family, doesn't it?

Even if it's something that could be avoided - for you two, the circumstances where those cards are used on them are something that must be avoided, right?

So isn't it fine?

[rollplayinghouse]

None of the choices are fine. We don't want to do something that would hurt you, either.

And you didn't answer my question.

[constellationprize]

... Does it hurt me?

[rollplayinghouse]

Does it?

Ignoring how we feel about it... Would you be hurt if we used the card on Wild City over the others?

[constellationprize]

Whether it hurts, or doesn't hurt . . .

. . . It's something that I wouldn't like, but it's something that I'm able to understand too, you know...?

[rollplayinghouse]

So you can say that. That you're choosing to do something that hurts because you understand what the alternative would mean for us.

It doesn't have to be "unavoidable" or "fine." These games make us make compromises. We'd rather know that's happening.