YOU-kai start!

[idolpro]

Who: YOU-kai
Where: The YOU-kai dorms
When: Day 355, morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear, with a message on your phone.

Good morning, newly departed guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color as well as a mythological creature (if that is available to you—some of you will have that option grayed out). Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color and creature (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of traditional Japanese clothing fitted exactly to your size. Additionally, upon choosing your creature, you might find yourself suddenly with some new appendages (check Player Notes).

Also, the front door is currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

Comments

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

Wouldn't an alliance leave us open to their enemies on other teams? What if someone reaaaally hates this other team and decides they should just kill us for deciding to throw our hat in with them. Do you have anything in mind for that?

[miirai]

We don't have to publicly announce that we have an alliance with them, though.

[ just.

putting that out there. ]

But if there is someone, or a unit that particularly hates any of the units we ally against, then clearly the unit we decide to do a proper alliance should be informing us of that, correct?

[venerance]

That's up to you. I'm not really a fan of politics. I just don't think it would be smart to go into this without looking at it from every side. We could be making more enemies than friends.

[He shrugs.]

[miirai]

I don't like big words and politics, either.

[ In this way, she's a child... ]

[venerance]

[Aw. He'll just pet her head. Fret not, tiny child.]

Maybe after the meeting we can get you some candy if you're a good kid.

[miirai]

Mii! I'll be good~!

[ is she just doing it for the candy? yeah ]

[emptymind]

If we clearly support one another in cooperative games, it may become apparent to other units regardless. If it is something we wish to keep private, then we will have to consider how that limits the actions available to us.

[miirai]

It is simply an idea that I wanted to bring up. It does not matter to me, as long as we win.

[emptymind]

Yes. It is not a matter of high concern for me, either, but I hope to keep under consideration the concerns of others.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[daios]

This is also a good angle to consider. By showing favoritism to one of us, we do leave ourselves open. And if no other temporary unit makes an alliance, they may all gang up on us. We have numbers now, but we can be overturned.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

Exactly. The last thing we need is a bunch of their enemies trying to off us in a game.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[daios]

And all of this is on the weight of only one of our members. It seems too good to be true, and such things often are.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

Gross. It's almost like we think similarly.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[emptymind]

Avante en garde has no such enemies. In fact, among the established units, I believe that sort of antagonistic unit relationship is exceedingly rare.

Regardless, we may ask after the current state of their affairs, in case things have changed dramatically in my absence.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

I would check with them before we go settling anything. The last thing we need is to get blindsided because we decided on this and some other team decided we were their enemy because of one person giving their word on an alliance. Do you know Avante en garde would even be interested in this kind of agreement? They probably have a bunch of friends on other units and we have no way of knowing that any of us here would cause problems.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[emptymind]

Yes. That is why we are discussing matters before finalizing the alliance itself.

We are aware that they are interested, however, because they told me as much directly, after coming to a full consensus.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

I have stipulations: 1) if they betray us for one of their other buddies, they have to gut themselves. I don't care if they can come back. 2) if they refuse to do that then we get to kill them. You can choose whether or not to tell them that.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[byallmeans]

It's not like we're planning to announce it to the entire world.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

Are you an idiot?

[Asked perfectly sincerely. Sorry he's just Like This.]

By deciding to spare them publicly in games and having them do the same to us, we are announcing it.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[byallmeans]

The only one who's an idiot here is the one who thinks we would need or want to let the other teams know.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

I don't think we need or want to let other teams know. I just think that by declaring a position with another team, we'd be doing that involuntarily. We have the word of one person to go off of on whether these people are even trustworthy. Seems unreliable, if you ask me.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[ibedeadpeople]

Couldn't we just we ask them? I mean, it makes sense to get to know your partner team anyway. And if we don't like them, then we don't have to go through with it.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

We have the word of one person. Do you really want your life in someone else's hands? For all we know they could change their minds at the drop of a hat and decide to stab us in the back.

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[ibedeadpeople]

Yes... But they could do that anyway. And probably would, since we're new, and since we'll leave, so whatever they do to us doesn't really--matter.

[A breath]

So--so, an alliance doesn't put us in a worse position. But it could be a better position, if it works out. So...why not give it a try?

Re: ALLIANCE DISCUSS MEETING

[venerance]

Because I think it's a stupid idea!

[That's all the reason he needs, right?]