Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-10-05 03:16 pm

Hunger Games: Session 12

[ You find yourself in your respective unit's zone, with a mini-map on your phone, as well as your objectives:


Kill as many competitors as you can.
Destroy zones by breaking their statues.
Not enough action = We start killing you :)


Underneath the objectives is the number of revivals you have left, as well as whatever miscellaneous details about scoring points—killing a unitmate results in negative points, five units will be healed at most, etc.

The starting horn sounds. Let the games begin. ]
bondsofsuffering: ([Question] or is it really fate)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2021-10-06 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
The first time with BARiTONES and then just now, yeah. Luckily I avoided the worst of it this time, but the first time was bad.
crossmyheartandhope: (Just like every other morning before)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2021-10-06 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
...twice in one run, huh? That really sucks.
bondsofsuffering: ([Think] in hope.)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2021-10-06 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Another shrug.]

...People can't always save each other in games like this. Sometimes, we suffer more if we try to.

So I guess... thanks for being a friendly face around. That I got to save for once.
crossmyheartandhope: (Lord we are all cinders)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2021-10-06 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well... lucky you, damseling's about the only thing I'm any good at.

[He nudges agaisnt Izanagi, gentle]

Thanks again, bee tee dubs. Feels way better, now that I'm back in one piece.
bondsofsuffering: ([Distant] you said)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2021-10-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't return the gesture this time, still curled up.]

Yeah, well... you're the one always ready to be on the ground fighting to protect people, and more - even if you won't acknowledge it.

Might as well do my job at least.
crossmyheartandhope: (So far away away)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2021-10-06 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[...oh]

[Curls in himself, then, tucking his arms around his knees]

Dunno how much good fighting to protect people does, if I ain't actually keeping anyone safe.

[He's quiet for a beat, and then another]

...it ain't your job, y'know. You don't gotta do it, if you don't want. But you do, and you always try real hard.

You do a lot of good, for a lot of people. Don't think I don't see it.
bondsofsuffering: ([Look] whisper "sorry")

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2021-10-06 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That's like me saying "don't know how much healing people does if everyone ends up dying anyway."

It matters, Hurricane. You do good for people too - but you don't see it that way, do you? You could just run away, or - hell, you could just kill everyone off-unit you possibly can, like BARiTONES or ZRAEL.

But you don't. Because you decided to protect and support people instead.

And... do you really think that, if they still die in the end - if you couldn't get to them in time, in the end - they'll assume you don't have your back anymore? Do you really think their first assumption is that you don't care?
crossmyheartandhope: (Are we drowning?)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2021-10-06 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It ain't about people thinking I don't care or not. It's about, like - making a difference. Y'know? Like, when stuff hit the fan, was I just stuck on the sidelines watching it happen, or could I really go to bat for em?

When you heal people up, even if they end up biting it later, it helps them out then. Like... I feel better, right now, for however long we've got before we get going again. Please like this, that's a lot.
bondsofsuffering: ([Down] your sadness)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2021-10-06 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
So backing up the people in front of you, making sure your unitmate is taken care of as best as you can when you're also taking hits - none of that makes a difference?

All I've done is beat up some statues while one of my unitmates died and the other ended up who knows where. Meeting up with her in the sewers again - all that was by chance. And judging by how quickly the zones have been going down, I don't think those statues are even going to make a difference to our score, or my unit's end results, either.
crossmyheartandhope: (There's a hole in my chest)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2021-10-06 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean... it don't make a difference when I'm so busy fighting I can't even get to no one to help em.

Statues might make or break this thing, though, dude. It ain't always that we get a game like this and get any kind of chance to dig our way out without killing noone. And like I said... even if you couldn't stop someone dying, you're helping people feel better in the downtime. That ain't nothing.
Edited 2021-10-06 21:52 (UTC)
bondsofsuffering: ([Look] Now before you)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2021-10-06 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
So you being here didn't make a difference to her, either?

[Nodding at Alisaie.]
crossmyheartandhope: (So far away away)

Re: UNDERGROUND SEWERS

[personal profile] crossmyheartandhope 2021-10-07 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Lllowering his voice]

She's the one I couldn't get to.

If we hadn't fallen into that pit, she mighta been in trouble.