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]

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

[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]

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

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

[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

[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

[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

[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]

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]

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

[wonderofwonders]

Mmmmm... well, that would be pretty bad but-- it could be worse, too... so it's probably no good to complain about it.

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

[wonderofwonders]

It makes my head hurt just trying. Even the people I know well... I don't know what they'll do...

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

[at_heart]

Hey, complain all you want.

[ A wan smile for her, before he goes over to examine the vials. ]

...Wonder how the antidotes work, exactly. Do we still count as successfully poisoned if we take 'em after? Do the antidotes protect us if we take 'em first?

Re: DISCUSSION

[stoneandstave]

The best they can in these impossible circumstances, no doubt. There are no real winners here, whatever they declare at the end.

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

Mmmmm... Isn't an antidote something you're supposed to take afterwards? But... i guess if it stays in you, maybe it would protect you... that's probably part of the strategy-- right?

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

Mmmn... that's why I hope they protect themselves.

But... the game doesn't end until someone gets poisoned, so... some people are probably going to take risks...

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.

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ Tapping his bottom lip, until abruptly he re-checks the rules, and... ]

Well, we can't hold onto them, so they must work proactively.

[ ...hrrrrrm. ]

It's so weird that there's no win condition for not being poisoned. I mean, it might be one of the hidden wins, they have those sometimes, but. Heh. Maybe they just really wanna encourage us to poison each other.

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ Totally cool and chill and in fact a fun time for all, he promises. ] [ And, brought up short. ]

What?