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POISON: future is now

[ 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. ]

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That was a pretty good summary, yeah.

It was! Good job!

Eh. Well, any opinions on what to do? You're—☆ZRAEL, right?

That's right.

[ kind of. grimaces. ]

I don't really relish the idea of poisoning anyone, but I'd probably prefer to not be poisoned if I'm entirely honest. But I don't know where I'd prefer to send something like that to.

[ No one's done anything to harm her or anyone she cares about so it feels a little shitty. ]

Suppose part of the calculation is whether anyone's going to try and poison us. But if you're worried about self-defense, you're going to have to make someone a little mad eventually. Why not start now?

Even if I didn't play for self-defense, I'm sure I'd end up pissing someone off at some point with my choices down the line. No one really likes a martyr, either.

The odds of someone trying to poison us are probably pretty high, don't you think? Even if there isn't any malice to it, in order for the game to ever end, someone has to get poisoned. The rules incentivize sending poison.

Pretty much. It's not a feel-good game, but it's not as if that's unexpected.

Val's suggesting that we go for BAD END and Heart Soldier based on who doesn't seem too vulnerable and who might protect themselves. Speak now if you have different opinions.

Exactly. This is a lose-lose situation no matter what choice we make, so I'm trying not to get too invested in what we do either way.

[ small pause ]

That said, I'd prefer BAD END over Heart Soldier, personally. I have a friend there and another friend who'd probably take it very badly if I poisoned his boyfriend.

Well, they're both paired together, so we can't really hit one without the other. There's AlcheME, too, I suppose.

[ whuff. ]

Yyyeah if it's not a problem let's pick AlcheME instead. If they get mad I'll take responsibility.

Noted. It seems like that's our other decent choice, anyway. I'll put it to Val.

If it's too much of a problem for some reason, we can gamble on HSS and Bad End. Who knows, he might not even be there.

Eh. I'm not really sentimental, and Val's main issue with AlcheME was that they're a bit unpredictable and might have anger issues, apparently? Which is sort of a mileage-may-vary problem.

Anger issues? Aren't they the team that dresses up like cute mages and stuff?

Well, I'm not a people-person. That was Val's impression, not mine.

Interesting. I haven't really had any experience with them myself. I guess we'll see what happens.

And, well—no need to throw yourself on a grenade, or anything, if they're notified it was us. I'm used to not getting along with people.

[ Hm. She did mention she's not a people-person. ]

Well, that's a shame. You seem like a reasonable enough person.

Pfft—really? There's some people out there who'd be damn well surprised to hear it.

Well, yeah. You took my opinions into consideration even though it's just me here. You could have easily overridden anything I had to say with a vote.

Eh. I... guess.

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