Go Fish: future is now / WILD CITY / ☆ZRAEL / pep!pep!

[idolpro]

[Your chamber is a large, glass-walled room shaped like a slice of pie. Above, the glass walls extend up into darkness. If there’s a ceiling, it’s impossible to see. There don’t appear to be any other ways out of this room, either.]

[Although the room is lit, you can’t see any particular source of light. You cannot see or hear into the other chambers where the other idols are, but you can still see distorted glimpses of whatever is on the outside of your fish bowl. What could be out there...?]

Comments

Round 1

[idolpro]

[Down from the darkness above, five cards descend into your fish bowl on fishing lines. Pick cards to keep, or write on each card which team you'd like to send that card to.]

[You have received the following cards:]

Freezing
Parasitism
Immolation
Starvation
Freezing

[...Hang on, what are you supposed to write with? Why, a marker that has been unceremoniously hurled into your chamber just now, which loudly ricochets against the glass floor of your chamber.]

[Enjoy!]

DECISION

[idolpro]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ Catching the marker because reflexes, then dropping it because no thank you ]

Some set of playing cards. At least we have one match.

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

A match already. How fortunate.

Re: DISCUSSION

[childeishly]

Freezing, pah, that's the one I was least concerned about. [ y'know, coming from the literal land of ice and snow... ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[paradiseunboxed]

...Mn... Which means we have the option of not sending cards this round.

Re: DISCUSSION

[paradiseunboxed]

[quietly observing everyone]

Re: DISCUSSION

[cloudretainer]

Off to a fortuitous start, it appears!

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ Oh hi Childe can probably tell she's barely held together but like, she's trying. ]

Starvation would be the worst for me. Well, not for me, but for everyone else.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

You want to hold them?

I guess I don't care about any of them but starvation. That one I need rid of at some point.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ Not so much with the joviality but you know she's the Extra Drama version of immortal ]

What do you want to do?

Re: DISCUSSION

[cloudretainer]

That is one thing out of the way, at least. Now to decide what to do with the remaining cards.

Re: DISCUSSION

[secondwitch]

[don't mind the Zrael newbie dressed in half fin and half pep as he examines the cards.

notably, when he looks at "immolation", he starts glowing orange, bright and kind of alarmed, at it, before it tinges over with gray..

his expression doesn't change, though.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

[ She'll go ahead and pick it up, then. Somebody's gonna have to do this, anyway. ]

Too bad it's the one that would be the gentlest to die from.

[ At least, she's heard that after a point in freezing, it's like falling asleep. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[childeishly]

We should send all of the cards off, since that relies on our hand having more matches, but if you'd like to get rid of that one I doubt anybody will say no. I mean, they're all pretty terrible, but... [ sets a hand on her shoulder, giving it a squeeze. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[glidinglight]

[ Her eyes slide sideways, observing the mood-ring changes to his hair. ]

You okay there?

Re: DISCUSSION

[cloudretainer]

Naturally, one wishes to emerge victorious and unharmed. Thus, one suggests that we send our remaining three cards elsewhere, and be rid of them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

Something like that.

I would like to get rid of starvation for the sake of everyone at the end of this.

Re: DISCUSSION

[cloudretainer]

Yes... one has heard it is not the worst way to expire.

Not that one intends to expire at all, of course.

Re: DISCUSSION

[numberedays]

We could keep them and see if we get a match.

Re: DISCUSSION

[cloudretainer]

Ah, we meet again.

Have you chosen a moniker for yourself?

Re: DISCUSSION

[secondwitch]

[his hair is fine. his normally-invisible cybernetics that are pretty much on his arms, and his neck, and his face, and...all over...are glowing, though.

he does not say anything for a long moment.]

...I would prefer to avoid 'immolation.'

[there might be a sense of a missing word after that, despite him ending the sentence.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sangreine]

[ She tries to smile. It's a pathetic attempt. ]

Maybe. Or we keep them all and have a better chance of getting matches later on, then get rid of them all in the third round which is usually the last one in games.

Re: DISCUSSION

[paradiseunboxed]

...Yes. I want to hold them. But...

...I don't think we should. Or rather, I'm not sure it's possible to play that way?

...I'm not sure what I want to do anymore. It's frustrating.

......

...Aside from the consequences to other teams, keeping cards increases our chances of making more matches in future rounds, which increases the number of points we earn. Isn't that so?

...So, perhaps we could hold on to 'starvation' for now, in case we get a matching card in future rounds.

...And if we don't get a match for it, then we can send it away in the last round.