3 way prisoner's dilemma (remix)

[idolpro]

[ The room you wake up in is barren. The floor, walls, and ceiling are all metal, and the only furnishings are a large television-sized touchscreen monitor and . . . glass chairs. That doesn't seem very comfortable.

The monitor displays a catalogue of pictures of flowers, each with their name, associated meaning, and a checkbox underneath them, along with the option to send those flowers to either group. ]

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DECISIONS

[idolpro]

[ On the left side of the screen is a sidebar with options for SEND, REVIEW SENT MESSAGES (currently empty), REVIEW RECEIVED MESSAGES (currently empty), and DESELECT ALL. You can send each flower only once, so any sent to one group cannot be sent to the other group, but you can send as many flowers as you like, even none. ]

SEND TO GROUP 1

[idolpro]

SEND TO GROUP 2

[idolpro]

MAILBOX

[idolpro]

[ Flowers you receive will be noted here. Flowers will be sent in two batches: at the halfway mark (1.5 hrs in) and at the end of the discussion round.

Bring your own toplevels for discussions! ]

TRUST/BETRAY

[idolpro]

<b>Group 1:</b> <b>Group 2:</b>

[cloudretainer]

[studying the list of flowers]

These meanings differ than the ones with which one is familiar.

Well it is that there is a guide, or this situation could become quite confounding indeed.

[sangreine]

[ BEST WAY TO MEET HELLO ]

[ Aliza looks sick, but then takes a slow breath and shakes it off. She promised to play these bullshit things. Her hair turns stark white, because mood ring. I'm sorry for her just in advance ]

It's only a guide if what they send is truthful to their intentions.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Yeah, that is pretty fucking convenient, isn't it?

[coinstar]

[fidgeting in a glass chair nope don't like this]

So we try to use the flowers to make a plan, is that it?

[glidinglight]

You're not kidding. Some of these are really counterintuitive to me.

[sangreine]

[ Aliza is very visibly miserable, and her hair is stark white. But she isn't doing any actual freakouts, it's a win? ]

We use them to communicate, I think. Or deceive, depending.

[glidinglight]

Or to communicate our intentions, if we plan to play straight-forwardly.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Planning seems a little too complicated for a bunch of fucking flowers, don't you think?

[coinstar]

I don't really want to deceive people... but we have to think of ourselves first, yeah?

[cloudretainer]

Indeed.

It seems the only meaningful choice that may be made overall is whether it is most advantageous for every group to take a lesser consequence, or for one to risk freedom of consequences by risking the dire consequences for everyone.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Ugh, I hate this sneaking lying bullshit. Can't we just fucking stab each other to death? It'd probably be faster, too.

[coinstar]

What do you want to do Lumine?

[he's asking because he doesn't want to decide anything in this case]

[cloudretainer]

It is also most convenient that the least trustworthy individual is already in this room, and thus all other groups are now more trustworthy by comparison.

[coinstar]

Then what do we do, just decide what we want instead of try to figure something out with the flowers? They gave us them so it seems dumb not to try, but I don't know...

[sangreine]

[ A grim smile and glowing red eyes over here ]

Is this the first thing we agree on?

[coinstar]

Flowers mean a lot of things in different places so of course it might vary, but does that mean we trust the current guide? It seems designed for miscommunication.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Hey, I'm fucking trustworthy. When I have ever not been fucking trustworthy?

[cloudretainer]

Well. Though the meanings may be unfamiliar, in this regard it it well, for most of these blooms have only one meaning to contend with in this game, rather than several.

It should not be overly difficult to compose a message with such limited vocabulary, one expects.

[sangreine]

[ Her expression turns stern and hard. Okay, she said she'd play for real. Fine. ]

That's the idea. And deceiving them gives us a better chance of winning.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Uhhh. Guess we could fucking tell the other groups what we're planning to do? And hope they don't decide to fuck us over.

Or lie. We could also just fucking lie with the flowers.