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POISON: avante en garde
[ 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. ]
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. ]
Re: DISCUSSION
Naturally... I would like to protect our unit. But I wonder if it is possible to hold our hand a little.
Though that is risky too.
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[ then, wry ] It made it very easy to know whether sacrificing ourselves would be effective.
…On avante, it is more complicated. We could keep our own poison to try to end things quickly, only to have some other unit send us an antidote we have no choice except to take.
[ she sighs ]
If we really could sacrifice ourselves and be done with it, that is what I would choose. But I won’t force suffering on all of you, and I am sure we can find a way to ensure victory by this game’s standards, if we wish to aim first and foremost to ensure that we protect each other.
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I do not want us to die or grow ill. And I cannot really abide watching everyone here suffer by their own hands.
. . . But if we drink the water, we do no harm to anyone else. And we may very well be spared by others. And if someone does poison us, at least we did not doom ourselves intentionally.
That is of course, if we do not play with survival in mind from the beginning. In which case, it is simply a matter of unhappy choice.
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If we choose that tactic, and someone poisons us all the same, then we've achieved the same goal we'd have had by keeping our own poison—that is: a unit is poisoned, and the game ends.
So really, we'd succeed either way.
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