POISON: ✩ZRAEL

[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

[sangreine]

[ Usually Aliza's pretty wishy washy about what to do in these games, both wanting to protect others and win, if possible. Not today. Rationality has left the building. ]

No way am I sending a bottle of poison to another unit.

[ The conviction is there, but it seems to be more barely concealed desperation than anything. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

[ entirely deadpan: ]

Another fun one. Yay.

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

[ Reading these rules very closely. ]

I'm not sure how much of a choice we're going to have.... if noone sends the poison ever then we'll be indefinitely trapped in this game. Also if we want the antidiot we have to send the poison.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

We could send the antidote and keep the water.

[ She hasn't quite realized that if they get a bottle of poison sent over that she can't just drink the whole thing in a fit of stubbornness. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

[ Well, Aliza is pissed so she's going to need to be the chill one here today. ]

It's an option, yeah. What will we do if we get sent the poison?

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

This one seems like one of the bad ones, huh...

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

I'll drink it -- wait, the rules said two people have to drink from them... [ She really looks like she might throw something. Or cry. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

That it is.

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

I understand how you feel, but that's not really going to bring the game to a close is it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

If I know how these games go, someone will send poison. Doesn't mean we have to be the ones.

[ Straws are being grasped tightly enough to draw blood over here ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

Do we have a strategy? I don't want to poison people, but we're sort of past that mattering.

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

Sure, I guess, but then what would be doing? Just sitting on our hands doesn't feel like much of a plan.

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

Yeah. I'd be willing to drink with you, but... we don't know if it's going to just kill us or make us really, really sick. If it's the latter, it seems a little unfair to leave our new guy trying to take care of two really sick people at once.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

If you have a suggestion, by all means. [ She's more upset than angry, at least ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

Nothing decided as of yet. What are your thoughts?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

I don't think we'd be stuck here long if it makes us sick.

-- I'm sorry, I'm really struggling to care about the hypotheticals when the actuality of sending poison to people which they have to drink is so monstrous. [ This isn't an accusation, she's just miserable. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

[thinks... shrugs]

I don't know who we'd prioritize targeting or leaving alone. Is there anyone we think might poison us? A lot of the people I've met have been nice, but mentioned they won't hold back in games.

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

I don't have anyone I've met that I've promised to consider in these kinds of games. Aliza doesn't want to poison people, and I get that, but I also don't want us to end up worse off because of inaction.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

ZRAEL had a bit of a reputation for being ruthless in the past [ said with a definite tone ], and people who have been here a while might remember that. Some units might send poison on essentially at random, so they can keep their antidote.

I don't think anyone would target us specifically, but I don't really care if they do. I've lost enough people lately and there's people I love on every unit. Imagine getting a vial of poison from the unit of someone you thought you could trust. I'd rather die than do that to them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

Mm. Being poisoned isn't high up on my list of experiences I'd like to try. If we want the opportunity to protect ourselves, then we have to choose to send the poison though.... I don't even know who I'd feel comfortable sending something like that to.

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

A lot of people I've been friendly with have made a point to say games are their own separate thing. That doesn't really make it easier or make me want to pick them more, but I guess it's good to know...

Re: DISCUSSION

[coinstar]

That's really principled but I don't want to see us die in order to consider all the other units' feelings.