idolpro | Bomb Game: ☆ZRAEL edition

[ you open your eyes to find yourself in a room that might look familiar if you just so happened to be a certified zombie survivalist. however, if you were lucky enough to avoid the zombie meet & greet, then welcome to the dankest heckhole in tokyo-f. ]

[ the overhead lights flicker often enough to instantly grind your gears, while simultaneously doing next to nothing to illuminate the dilapidated little room. though a chorus of moans and groans rise from outside, all the doors and windows are securely barricaded, making the shambling monsters a non-issue... though it's possible their existence alone may put you on edge. ]

[ or maybe that's the -fsssst- sound, a subtle hissing coming from what could have passed for fire sprinklers. for the duration of the game a colorless and odorless gas is going to be filling the room, one that clouds judgements and exacerbates anxiety. but, hey!, that's what the janky table and busted chairs in the corner of the room featuring cold tea and dry biscuits is for - a carefully curated space for you and yours to kick back, relax, and KEEP TALKING. ]

[ the center of the room is where the main event sits, a BOMB, with several thick cords snaking out from it connecting to a bunch of different buttons. the entire thing is housed in an unbreakable glass cube, with only the buttons in reach of your grubby hands. a tv screen is suspended overhead, currently displaying the rules & winning conditions, but that's all about to change... ]

[ in the meantime feel free to enjoy a particularly messy wall, one stained with all sorts of things from the last bunch that tried ~~and failed~~ to win, ew! ]

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It says DAMAGE CONTROL with E and C sharp and B flat. Hm.

[ Musical girl for the win? ]

I don't think even Venti would have caught on that quickly.

[ SORRY BABE, her unitmate is just damned impressive. ]

I guess the question is how do the E and C sharp and B flat come in to play. How do they effect the sounds?

Sharp means the note goes up a half step and flat means it goes down a half step.

....It would also mean sharp as in ouch or flat as in flattened.

Both of which sound un-ideal. But "sharp" things remind me of shrapnel, given our current situation...

I'm not sure how the numbers relate. Unless it's just that they correspond with the letters in DAMAGE. Or CONTROL I guess, both have six letters.

What about those two fours on top of each other by the notes that spell out "damage?" Do they mean something?

That denotes the time of the music. In this case it could correspond to the fourth letter in each word, I guess.

There must be something else... these two other boxes, with the flat symbol and the two sharps, they have to have something to do with it as well.

If I had to guess, the sharps are bad and the flat is good. Flat as in not dangerous, as in defused. But there isn't a B in either of the two words to correspond to any of the numbers.

They COULD mean B-flat as in A-sharp since they're the same thing? But there are two As in "damage".

What about the notes themselves? Do they correspond to any kind of numerical order in a scale?

A scale as eight notes, and they don't jump around like that. The sharp and flat signatures aren't even applicable to the notes as written.

Too much to hope for. Scratch that, I guess.

It sounds like maybe the thought, then, is we pick one of the A-sharps which is also B-flat. In that case, it's one of the a's -- either 2 or 4. Hopefully. There's a lot of fours popping up... maybe four's the best bet?

I don't think I'm ready to do that just yet.

Do we think 1 through 6 are A-B-C-D-E? It would make more sense because there aren't repeating letters to pick from.

One through six does seem like a safe bet. Technically... they should all be unique values. At least, that was the case with the last puzzle...

Edited 2022-11-27 04:37 (UTC)

So E (button number 6) and C (button number 3) are one type of effect and the B (button number 2) is another type.

Which one defuses it? I can't imagine they'd give us two options to defuse.

Mmm... but what if you're right, what if the four is a false flag? In that case, that might mean one or the other the 'a's'--since 2 and 4 correspond to the a's--are safe. If that's the case, then maybe we shouldn't pick 2 or 4 at all and consider instead 3, 5, 6, 1.

I mean if that's the case when we're just basically guessing. I have to think it's a little less chance-y than that.

[ How mad would Venti be with her if she suggested rolling a dice to prevent their brains from having to be troubled with this anymore...... ]

I suppose you're right. I just don't trust this runner in particular. Not after what she did to us the last time.

Tell me about it. Stupid helipad got me twice.

[ Pretend she said "button number 5" for E up there sorry my brainnnnn ]

So either buttons 3 and 5 will kill us or button 2 will, it's a 50/50 guess between the two. The others are probably effects instead, if we want to hedge our bets and go in between.

If we have a 1-in-3 shot of exploding with buttons 2, 3, and 5, versus another status effect.... I'll take a status effect over death any day of the week. Don't you think?

I guess that's fair enough. Should we pick at random?

I think so. I haven't the foggiest which of them is safe so, random is fine.

Hmmm.... Number one? On account of the two As? I don't know, it's just an idea. I'm not married to it.

I don't have any better ideas; 1 is fine by me.

Re: Discussion

sangreine - 2022-11-27 05:06 (UTC) - Expand