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WED BED BEHEAD: AlcheME!
[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: LiliS, Heart Soldier Senshi, & avante en garde. Next to the box a laminated copy of the IC rules is taped down, and beside it lie four cards:
You have til 9pm PST to submit your votes.]
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: LiliS, Heart Soldier Senshi, & avante en garde. 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.]
DECISION
If you don't vote at all, your votes will be randomized and you will receive the punishment listed in the rules.
Decisions are due by 9pm PST.
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Well.
Okay.
This sure is happening.
Hm, ]
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[The kind on the edge of a freak out because]
[BECAUSE]
[SURE IS DECIDING SOMEONE IS JUST GONNA DIE, HUH.]
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S? S.
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[Because he has had assassins after him. He can function, he can function, right, why can't he-]
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[And just.]
[Gonna sit down on a couch.]
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[Slow for someone used to this. But fast for someone who supposedly isn't.]
A lot of people are gonna die.
[He is bent over, hands on the back of his neck, voice low.]
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[ Lark sounds...tired, but he knows how this sort of thing tends to go. ]
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The rules are simple and clear.
There's no third option....is there? [His hands shake and his grip just tightens on the back of his neck in response.]
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... There is the 'instead' choice that might help another unit or hurt them of course.
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Except either track is still a mystery of how many die.
1/2
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... More seriously, I'd rather be able to say I made my choices, then do nothing and try to say it's not my fault. Or, I guess, I want to say I had control in making choices that I regret the least.
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The Host is the one who broke the trolley.
And what is your choice? And reasoning?
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... I already know roughly what I'd choose, but I'm not the only one who has to decide, so ... if we play, who do you want to harm the least out of all these options?
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[And its honestly the one thing he's holding onto to maintain some composure.]
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Without taking the other units' potential choices into consideration, I'd choose: wed avante, bed LiliS, behead Heart. Collectively, we have friends on all the units, but I really do not want to be in the position of having to explain that we hurt B's boyfriend and Q's girlfriend if they happen to be here.
... Since we can't pick 'bed' for both units my choice for avante is my own bias.
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[Since good to know for the future. Probably.]
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Fine.
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Now, what I'm more worried about is how this will play out for us.
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...And I guess the same goes for them as well, which could turn this into a godsdamn mess.
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That said, while I don't know how many of them know Amaranth now, if some of the ones who were closer to her previously are present I think they'll also be considering to give avante a lighter punishment.
Avante ... would not want to give us a 'behead' card, but otherwise I don't think they'll have an easy time choosing which unit gets which card. Obviously, there are people there who care about us, but Heart is also in the problem and I know at least one member is very close to someone on Heart. They might choose to respect that member's wishes. And what I said about Lilis and Amaranth also applies in the opposite direction too.
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... That said, that doesn't mean we have to play the 'instead' card at all. I just want to think through options.
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And from what it sounds like, its the same problem with each team. We get chosen because we don't know whose there and who we might be important to.
But that means worse case scenario, we're getting three beheads and instead just drags another team down with us. If we knew one team was almost definitely going to give a behead, then fine, turnabout is fair play, but as it is, its just lashing out in the hope we only have one, and we're passing the buck on the person who might not have even done it to us.
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... So no 'instead' card, got it.
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I can say with...almost complete certainty that HSS won't play 'wed' on us, it'll go to avante. But besides that it is up in the air if we'll get 'bed' or 'behead', I'm not too sure how they feel about LiliS.
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I think the lesson here is we need to make more intimate friends if we can't even count on the significant other teams.
Re: DECISION
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... In any case, how someone values a friendship doesn't always mean we'll be their top priority.
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... I guess it's just hard to say for sure because most choices are made as unit.
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But like. Beyond small stuff isn't a lot.
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Not a conversation for now.
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So, how do you want to brace for our impending fate?
RESULTS
How exciting! It seems LiliS chose to wed you, while Heart Soldier Senshi & avante en garde chose to bed you. Thus, your final verdict is...
Wed.
Bed.
Bed.
[You black out.
You wake up with the sound of wedding bells ringing in your head, vows of honesty echoing vaguely in your memory.
Somewhere on your body is a small bruise in the shape of a flower of the player's choice. So long as it remains, you feel a desire to confess your feelings -- of love, of longing, of resentment, it doesn't matter, but it's something you previously wanted to keep under wraps. You can resist it pretty easily, but for every hour you do the bruise will grow a new blossom. If you reach the end of the status effect period, your whole body will be bruised, and you'll find yourself shouting your feelings to whoever will listen, even if it isn't the target of those feelings.
You black out again.
You wake up tied down to a four-poster bed, all draped in velvet sheets and golden tassels. It's quite comfortable, until the person -- one whose features you cannot recall -- leans over you.
They carry a bucket, sloshing and sizzling with some unknown solution with fumes that burn your sinuses. Without ceremony they toss it over you, and your skin begins to blister and peel. Though the burns are only skin-deep, they are as agonizing as fire.
You black out again.
You wake up tied down to a four-poster bed, all draped in velvet sheets and golden tassels. It's quite comfortable, until the person -- one whose features you cannot recall -- leans over you.
They open a small sewing kit, and from it pull a needle and thread. You find yourself unable to struggle, to even turn your head as your captor begins to sew. Your eyes, your mouth, they're all tightly shut, with soft and colourful thread in pretty geometric patterns you can't even see.
You black out again.
You received 5 points. You may proceed to endgame.]
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