avante en garde

[idolpro]

[ Your designated room appears to be a modern but simple hospital room, with an adjustable electronic chair and curtain dividing one side of the room from the other. On the curtained side, there is a tray of basic surgery equipment, though nothing electric. That would be too easy, wouldn't it? At least(?) the chair has straps, to bind unruly subjects.

On the other side of the room are several chairs, what appears to be an iPad with a health chart listing a number of patients. You may select from a number of options to send "remedies" to those patients. There is also a pharmacy counter, though rather than a window, there is only a thin slit the width of a single piece of paper.

And of course, your patient(s)—or hostage(s), if you prefer—is in the middle of the room, though . . . strangely placed. A glass bubble, 6ft by 6ft, hangs from the ceiling, somewhat like an upside-down snowglobe. Eight tubes connect the orb to the ceiling, and one tube connects it to the floor. From above, your patient(s) can see most things in the room, including the surgery table even when the curtains are drawn.

It's currently empty—aside from your patient—for now. ]

[ RULES ✧ REMEDIES ✧ HEALTH CHART ]

Comments

[deadlynadder]

Just giving ourselves tasks wouldn't be enough especially if you think someone else will target us instead.

[gemuinemanagement]

I know
Maybe if we sent everyone equal tasks, that would be... not okay, but something I could live with

[gemuinemanagement]

There are supposed to be multiple rounds
So we can start off playing conservatively
And go harder later if we have to

[deadlynadder]

...It might be the only way.

I don't like it either, but it's probably the safest way. If everyone gets a task each time it'll negate some of it and if it's level one - if we can handle it they probably can, too, if they need to.

What they can handle will be their choice same as ours. And it's not like they don't have the same option.

[ everyone could all redirect to each other which is... oof but. ]

[heavyliesthecrown]

My suggestion is that we send everyone, including ourselves, a level one task. It is equally spread out, and still allows us a somewhat conservative start to the game.

From there, we can gauge how we ought to move forward after seeing the results.

[heavyliesthecrown]

That may be our best option. I do not wish to inflict a great deal of pain on other units needlessly. But I would also like to protect Amaranth-san. And avoid all of us suffering something extreme if we can.

[gemuinemanagement]

That sounds about right to me
There's supposed to be multiple rounds, so if we need to go harder to make up for being targeted, we can later

[deadlynadder]

[ not an answer she somehow expected from him but also, no hesitation: ]

I agree. It's the most fair way to handle things and means we can go into the next round seeing a little more of how anyone else will play it.

[gemuinemanagement]

So, if we're sending level 1 tasks to everyone, we still have to pick which one
My vote is for the anti-itch one
I'm not sure what things like 'steroid' will do
But if we just make people really itchy then that's doable

[deadlynadder]

[ For a moment there's a flickering like she doesn't want to have to consider what going harder might mean, but still. ]

You're right.

[deadlynadder]

Yeah, if there's anything everyone can handle it'd be being itchy - Poison Ivy sucks but there's worse things out there to suffer from.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I simply cannot imagine that other units will choose not to send anything.

[ Brows knitting... ]

And, while I do hate to admit it. . . our unit has not performed very well in these sorts of games recently. My fear is that... we will be an easy target for others again. I do not wish to see our unit suffer another difficult loss right now.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I suppose a sedative might make someone sleepy? Itching, sleepiness... either of these seem safe enough.

I would like to avoid respiratory if we can.

[deadlynadder]

Everyone is going to want to protect their own right now.

[ She says it aloud, but quietly - more of a reaffirmation. Since the idea of people dying or being hurt isn't foreign to her, but this is such a callous way to do it. ]

It's possible they will see as an easy target, but that doesn't mean we respond in kind. What means performing well is doing what we can live with, and what's right in the moment. So what is that for you?

[deadlynadder]

I'd want to avoid anything like anti-psychosis, too.

Everyone deserves to be in their right mind right now.

[gemuinemanagement]

Me too
And anti-psychosis

[The mental effects can be worse than the physical ones.]

[heavyliesthecrown]

Causing the least amount of damage while still protecting our own.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Perhaps we would like to avoid SSRI then, too? It isn't the same but still messes with how one feels, at the very least.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am fine with that. I also feel one ought to be in control of themselves for this.

[deadlynadder]

Then that's what we'll aim to do.

[gemuinemanagement]

I'll go put in anti-itch for everybody then
If we're all agreed

[deadlynadder]

I'll take your word for it... but what even is that?

[ I'm sorry. ]

[heavyliesthecrown]

Well... that is your same thought, then? I realize you are new still, but I do not wish for you to feel as though your voice is drowned out.

[heavyliesthecrown]

They are a medication to help deal with depression. An anti-depressant. My guess is that if one was to be stuck with it, they may feel hopeless or as though their life does not matter as much as it ought to.

[deadlynadder]

My thoughts are a little more... complicated than that.

The end result is the same. I don't want to hurt anyone else, but it's their choices to take what they need to but I guess. For me.

If it was opposite, if I was in that bubble. My choice would be... The least amount of damage we could take is if we let it flood. We wouldn't need to send anything to anyone else, we wouldn't have anyone more hurting and I realize that's a selfish idea.

But if someone really wanted to create the least amount of damage and the person on the other side was okay with it...

[ She trails off, shaking her head. ] I don't know. I just keep thinking about the possibilities of protecting as many people as possible is important... I wouldn't force that on anyone else.

[ An unconscious Amaranth in this case. ]