avante en garde

[idolpro]

[ The elevator opens up to a room spacious enough to house the whole unit comfortably, but with no furniture to speak of except a touchscreen podium near the far wall, displaying a row of four larger-than-life mahjong tiles on a red background. On the left side of the screen is a square that says TRADE. The walls and floor of the room are nearly checkered with metal panels, out of place against the rest of the marble flooring and unremarkable off-white walls.

The elevator doors close behind you. ]

Comments

Round 1

[idolpro]

HAND

[idolpro]

[ Touching one of the mahjong tiles will bring up a textbox underneath it with a brief description of the attack associated with the tile. Your starting hand is this: ]


1 bamboo (lost sense of taste)

6 characters (losing an eye)

7 bamboo (crushing damage to a knee or elbow)

4 dots (hearing loss)

NEW HAND

[idolpro]

3 bamboo (unable to eat)

2 bamboo (insatiable hunger)

1 characters (getting dust in an eye)

2 characters (irrepressible crying)

TRADE

[idolpro]

[ Units may touch the TRADE button on the screen to place their hand up for trade. Please submit trade requests by 3:30PM PST at the latest to give everyone time to discuss their new hand, and consider a tile from your starting hand as a backup in case another unit is not available to exchange. Trade availability cannot be retracted. ]

[knightceties]

[We trading. :V]

Re: TRADE

[deicider]

YES TRADE

TURN IN

[idolpro]

[ Please reply here with both your tile choice and your three choices for target unit. Turn-in is due at 4PM PST. ]

Re: TURN IN

[deicider]

3 Tile

1. HSS
2. Bad End
3. Taisho

RESULT

[ghostofissues]

[ A few metal panels open up, and metal appendages appear from behind them, clasping one person's head to hold it in place as two with spoon-like ends move in to scoop out their eyeballs like pieces of watermelon, sharpened to sever through the muscles holding it in place. The eyes are taken away with the mechanical arms when they fold back into place and the panels shut behind them. ]

Round 1 Discussion

[idolpro]

[unbr8kable]

...What the fuck.

[knightceties]

Maybe we should've seen something like this coming...

[calmthefoxdown]

... How is losing an eye less points than that one.

[ A. General motion at the 7 pointer. ]

[knightceties]

You can still see out the other one, can't you? If you lose one knee, you're down until it's healed.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[deicider]

Wow, my timing was impeccable.

[Timing about what? Whatever, moving on]

I think we should go middle. No-one is going to choose high damage. [hmm] I'd like to trade just to see the variety. Thoughts?

[deicider]

Nemesis, Gold, if either of you want someone off the table for consideration, tell me now. Otherwise I want to know who you guys think will go low.

[deicider]

[Looks a bit annoyed at the new hand tbh]

So low...

ROUND 2

[idolpro]

HAND

[idolpro]

[ Touching one of the mahjong tiles will bring up a textbox underneath it with a brief description of the attack associated with the tile. Your starting hand is this: ]

2 dots (sore throat)

4 dots (hearing loss)

9 bamboo (whole unit death)

3 dots (unable to lie for 3 days)

TRADE

[idolpro]

[ Please submit trade requests by 5PM PST at the latest to give everyone time to discuss their new hand, and consider a tile from your starting hand as a backup in case another unit is not available to exchange. Trade availability cannot be retracted. ]

TURN IN

[idolpro]

[ Please reply here with both your tile choice and your three choices for target unit. Turn-in is due at 5:30PM PST. ]

RESULT

[idolpro]

[ Metal panels open up from the walls, the ceiling, and the floor, with giant metallic appendages rushing out of them to grab you - any two of you, by your arm or your leg. (Or like, just one of you but two of your appendages, but how unlucky would THAT be?) You can try to run, but they'll chase you down; once the hand grasps onto your knee or your elbow, it stops. All of the other appendages stop. Is that really the end of it?

. . . No, that's not quite right. That's not the end of it at all - the hand squeezes down, digits tightening mechanically with a whir, until it's painful, and even then it doesn't stop. Are you panicked yet? Even if you are, the appendage's grip is far too tight to escape from, and will likely only cause you more pain. Then again, how much more painful could you make the experience of getting your joint crushed?

The bones crack under the hand's unforgiving grip, digits pressing harder and harder until your joint is nothing but bone splinters digging into arteries and nerves. Thankfully, that appears to be as far as the punishment goes - the hand releases you, leaving a comically deep handprint against your skin, as every metal appendage disappears back underneath the panels. ]

Round 2 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Round 2 Discussion

[deicider]

[IMMEDIATLY]

We need something higher than a four. A five or a six.

[knightceties]

[The metal arms grab Ace before he can even try to dodge and

well

now there's a lot of blood pouring out of his eye sockets]