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

[heavyliesthecrown]

I would not be okay with you sacrificing yourself to drink poison to begin with.

[gemuinemanagement]

Everyone protected me last time
It's my turn to protect the team

[heavyliesthecrown]

You were not the only one protected last time, you know.

[gemuinemanagement]

Do you want to form a united alliance against Amaranth and Hades protecting us at their own expense again

[heavyliesthecrown]

Mm... Well, I would prefer we manage to protect them this time around. Ideally, we shall all reach a happy conclusion, though.

I would feel very bad if our actions creates friction among us.

[gemuinemanagement]

What if we keep our antidote
And send the poison to someone we think will keep their antidote too and be okay

[heavyliesthecrown]

I feel most units will lean toward taking actions to survive. Which would mean most are... available. To that end, I feel rather confident that BARiTONES will keep their own for sure. Likely BAD END too. Though I do dislike the idea of them possibly being ganged up on for that reason.

That said, I do not believe they would hold anything against others for doing the same as themselves.

[gemuinemanagement]

Bad End is with Heart Soldier, and I got the feeling that Heart Soldier is well liked
So I don't think they'll be ganged up on

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . Someone I grew up with from home might suffer for it if I am wrong, though.

[ Kind of hates that idea. ]

I suppose there is also ZRAEL and future is now.

[gemuinemanagement]

I don't know about the rest of Zrael, but Alizarin seems like the kind of person to not keep her own antidote to not have to poison anyone else
So that's dangerous too

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . She is incredibly self-destructive, but I not sure that she is to the extent that she would doom her own unit.

Or rather, if she was and acted against their wills, I would not have much respect for such an action.

[gemuinemanagement]

That's fair
I wouldn't either

If you really want to keep our water instead, I'm okay with that as long as I get to be one of the people who drinks

[heavyliesthecrown]

Fufu...drinking the water does nothing, isn't that right? I will not prevent you from drinking water if we go that route.

[gemuinemanagement]

Alright

[absolutely gonna take the poison too before you can stop him t b h]

[heavyliesthecrown]

If we are simply going to drink the water, that means we ought to think of which unit we send an antidote to.

. . . My suggestion is AlcheME. My reasoning is that I do not believe they have many here who would look out for them. I feel...they may be an acceptable target, and may not protect themselves.

[gemuinemanagement]

That's fine with me
SensitIV probably won't be targeted, so we don't need to send them an antidote

[heavyliesthecrown]

That is also my thought. And it would be foolish for the healers to harm themselves in a game. I feel they will be alright.

[worthathousand]

[ "what do you have"
"a POISON"
"no!!!!"

—which is to say: hello you two are catching her attention again now that Robin is actually holding those vials; she pauses to glance at what he's written and frowns, slightly. ]


...I would not be so sure in that—on sensitIV, I mean.
This is exactly the sort of game where they would try to poison themselves.

[ "Amaranth didn't you just tacitly offer to poison yourself to Robin earlier." That's different. Obviously. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

What??
Why would they do that, that's dumb

[worthathousand]

[ Just. Looks at him. ]

For principle. To end the game swiftly, by no other hand than their own.
But lately, I tire of seeing my sons sacrifice themselves quite so casually.

[gemuinemanagement]

[listen, it's Different]

I can imagine
We can send them the antidote

[worthathousand]

[ is it though. is it. ]

...Thank you.

In the past... I have been content to trust them to look after themselves: playing to win when it suits them, and sacrificing themselves when it suits them. They usually get what they want in that way.

[ a soft laugh, humorless ]

In a game like this, though... I think I'd like it to be different.