POISON: avante en garde

[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

[gemuinemanagement]

Keep antidote, poison Heart Soldier.

RESULT

[idolpro]

[ Your water and poison disappear. A vial of blue liquid appears in its place. Along with the antidote is a pep!pep! blue tape recorder, which automatically starts to play back a voice:

"Can at least keep Robin alright if he's around. While we eat shit and die.

Put our decision in, then. Leavin' it t'you, Honey." ]



[ You have FOUR DOSES of antidote to drink. ]

Re: RESULT

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Holy shit, nice.

[starting to open vials of antidote to drink his share of the doses]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[gemuinemanagement]

Two doses, and three of us
I don't mind taking one

[heavyliesthecrown]

It begs how many rounds there shall be. I imagine at some point we will all have the lucky chance.

[ . . . ]

Please be frank, Robin-san, what are your thoughts regarding the game? We truly need to decide our best strategy and what we are able to stomach.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . .

[ Grimacing. ]

Truly, I despise the producers.

Re: DISCUSSION

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Oh shit, I'm stuck with you fuckers this time. This'll be fun.

[gemuinemanagement]

Hi again
Do you have any thoughts about strategy

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

Hmph. We are an excellent unit to be paired up with.

It seems this is not anything new for you, however.

SESSION TWO

[idolpro]

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[gemuinemanagement]

Keep water, give antidote to sensitIV.

RESULT

[idolpro]

[ Your antidote and poison disappear. One red vial appears in its place. Along with the poison is a BARiTONES red tape recorder, which automatically starts to play back a voice:

"I don't mind at all~ It'll save our skins, no? I'd much rather protect you and Lily above all else." ]


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

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[gemuinemanagement]

We should keep our antidote
I don't want any of you to be poisoned

[Even if that means that they have to poison someone else, that's still the price they have to pay.]

[heavyliesthecrown]

I do prefer to protect all of you. But I confess that I hate the idea of sending poison to another unit.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . I suppose they want to stir up some animosity between the units.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

[ looking over the list of targets ]

Or a portion of us.

[ pensive ] That, more than the cruelty, is the strangeness of it.

[ a pause, then meeting his eyes ]

We will have to decide which we most value: our principles, or a swift end.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

…This game must be truly old; even I do not know it.

[ a pause, and she grimaces ]

But it is not so unique, even so.

Re: DISCUSSION

[daios]

....... Mmmmhhh....


I do not like this one. It is another of those thinking puzzles, and we are expected to sacrifice others for it...

Re: DISCUSSION

[gemuinemanagement]

I don't care about winning
But I don't want any of you to get hurt

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

Thinking puzzles.

[ a soft snort, maybe just as much at the description as at this grave insult to jocks everywhere ]

But come, maybe if we treat this less as a riddle and more as any other battlefield or game of gateway, the choice will be clearer to ones like you and I.

To start: some team must be poisoned for the game to end, but the rules do not care by whose hand the poison comes.