POISON: LiliS

[idolpro]

[ The room is plain, white walls and white ceiling, except for the steel-panel flooring. There are three metal stands rising out of openings in the floor, each of which carries a glass vial on top. One of them just holds water. Of the remaining two, one contains a dark red, opaque liquid with a creamy consistency; the next is a relaxing blue, with small brightly glittering star-like orbs drifting through it.

Both have fancy but identical cast iron stoppers moulded in the shape of a shark plugging them shut. The only difference is that the red vial's shark is painted white, and the blue vial's shark is painted black. ]

Comments

SESSION ONE

[idolpro]

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[at_heart]

Keeping ANTIDOTE, sending POISON to ZRAEL (via coin-flip) (between them and BiT) (WE LOVE YOU ALL)

still in negotiations on who's gonna drink the antidote but if Lupine has his way it'll be Not Him

RESULT

[idolpro]

[ Your water and poison disappear. Two vials of red liquid appear in their place, as well as two tape recorders. One is BARiTONES red, and the other is Heart Soldier Senshi bronze. First the BARiTONES tape recorder plays back a voice:

"Well, I was considering being generous but the teams I care about seem not present."

And then the Heart Soldier Senshi tape recorder follows suit:

"...If they find out it was us, I'll shoulder the blame. But if they don't, then I have no intention of telling them." ]


[ You have TWO DOSES of antidote and FOUR DOSES of poison to drink. Poison effects can be found here. ]

Re: RESULT

[at_heart]

[ ...More than a tiny bit amused. ]

Can't wait to find out which snippet of our discussion got played back out of context.

[ It's nice how there's absolutely no question what the vials are, though! That's downright helpful. ]

Re: RESULT

[wonderofwonders]

[She is... deeply conflicted. But she picks up one of the poison vials.]

...well. We were right to protect ourselves.

Re: RESULT

[at_heart]

Seems that way.

[ He won't say he's not surprised by Heart sending them poison, but frankly good for them if they're not gonna target themselves first and foremost in any more games. ]

...You're gonna take one of the antidote doses, right?

Re: RESULT

[wonderofwonders]

Mmmm... if I take it, then you're just gonna say that you're the one who won't.

I can't accept that you should always be the one who puts themself in that kind of situation.

Re: RESULT

[stoneandstave]

I imagine you're going to argue that you should be the one excluded from the antidote doses, but any chance you'll hear me out?

Re: RESULT

[at_heart]

After you got saddled with a boatload of crap from that flower game?

[ He's not not listening, but look. ]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ Yeah, don't mind him, he'll be reading the rules over like four times on his phone. Ugh. He hates war room games. ] [ Does not expect powers to be on, but he does his little Test Flex anyway, and is then surprised to be covered in pale mottled bark. ]

...Huh.

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

...guess they don't think powers will make a whole lot of a difference...

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ It definitely changes his mental math a little. sIV can turn off any pain, pep can come back— ] [ And now pushing that thought out of his head with force, because it doesn't mean they don't still die. ]

Fair enough, really. I mean, we're not — fighting anybody, and you probably still get points for 'poisoning' pep even if they get back up.

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

Mmm... it's not like there's anything we can do directly from here. The only things that leave are the vials we send.

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

Yeah.

[ Beat. Tries to offer up, very gently: ]

On the plus side, if we poison someone and then they poison us back? I think we both still win.

Re: DISCUSSION

[stoneandstave]

[ Gent examines the vials for a moment, lingering on the one that seems to contain the night sky. ]

Testing our ruthlessness, is it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

...the kind of game you have to think about a whole lot because it's dangerous...

I'm not so good at these types of games.

Re: DISCUSSION

[stoneandstave]

[ Gives her a crooked smile and a headpat ]

I don't think I'd want to be good at this sort of thing.

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

...well, if it was a game that wasn't about hurting someone, that'd be different.

I guess it would be good too if I had the kind of tactical genius that could get everyone out of here safely... But I'm pretty sure no once can really do that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[stoneandstave]

I doubt anyone could get out of this with cleverness. If it were possible, many of these games would end differently. It's no failing of yours.

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

I mean, maybe. Game doesn't end until someone successfully 'poisons another unit', so we can't all be saints today.

It feels almost more like a logic problem. We've got two doses of antidote, two doses of poison, two doses of... water.

Re: DISCUSSION

[stoneandstave]

Sometimes logic flies out the window when it comes to mortality or self-sacrifice. [ OR SO HE MUST HAVE READ SOMETIME ]

Do you have a proposition? It seems a bit fortuitous that the unit we're allied with and Persicaria's partner are in the same place.

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ Well, that sure was a lurching gut reaction, but he's going to be ignoring it as hard as he can. ]

BiT's definitely gonna keep their antidotes and send poison out to someone. ZRAEL, too, maybe. [ Sort of depends on whether Zari's playing and how persuasive she can be, he supposes. ] sIV and Heart would probably rather drink their own poisons, and pep... dunno, it's gonna depend who's in there today.

[ Rubs the back of his neck, thinking. ]

—Man, I hope Tsukky's not playing, I can't imagine he'll take sharing a room with Bad End well. But I think most of avante would...

[ Trails off, frowning. ]

If it was just Bad End, they'd do the same thing as BiT. Does it count as successfully poisoning a unit if they take their antidotes first? After?

Re: DISCUSSION

[stoneandstave]

[ That sure is a lot of almost-rambling. He tries to imagine the stress of doing this when one has friends and maybe loved ones on many other units. ]

I don't think we'll know that unless we drink them. A prospect I'm sure we'd all rather avoid.

We could throw out our poison, give the antidote away.