avante en garde

[idolpro]

[ Your own room is fairly nondescript, the walls washed in your unit's colors. There are chairs here, but no beds nor tables.

You can make your own toplevels for discussion. ]

Comments

[softlyfalling]

Does this mean... we're the correct answer for the third slot?

[deicider]

It means we're candidates for the third slot. Unless we lie.

[softlyfalling]

If we lie... ah, we die if it's wrong and we're not voted for, but everyone else dies if we are...

...I know some of the other units are trying to sacrifice themselves. Or might be lying, I guess. I don't know enough about them.

[deicider]

[Regarding her evenly]

Pep Pep and Heart Soldier aren't lying.

What do you want to do?

[softlyfalling]

Ah. Good to know, um...

[ math floating in front of face.jpg ]

What do I want to do? If it was just me—I wouldn't mind dying, but...

[deicider]

[Thinking...]

I don't either, but there are complications with just throwing ourselves out.

[softlyfalling]

—I shouldn't be surprised, I guess. What... kind of complications?

[deicider]

In the past, suicides have had to deal with a demon named Lilith.

It's not off the table, we just have to be careful about how we field it.

[softlyfalling]

Oh.

I... I guess, we could also try to save Heart Soldier and Pep! Pep!—I felt bad for Heart Soldier, in that last game.

[unbr8kable]

...If we're biting it either way, and if we successfully trick somebody we get a couple extra heal slots, makes the most sense to go for that, doesn't it?

[deicider]

[bluntly,]

So you want to kill eight units instead of just four?

[unbr8kable]

I wanna be able to heal one unit instead of none.

Four units're still gonna get screwed, we can't stop that part. But there's no way everyone's gonna agree to go after the right people. So we may as well fuck it up for slightly better reasons.

[deicider]

[regards her evenly.]

Avante is never going to be the weak link. Not while I'm in a game.

[unbr8kable]

So you're gonna kill off Shrike 'cause you're too proud to fight the same way the others are? You really think Taisho and Sensitiv are gonna play ball? You really think Wild City's gonna play along if it seems like they're on the chopping block?

[softlyfalling]

I'm prepared for it, but I don't want you to need to die for this...

[unbr8kable]

We're going to die, no matter what. We got a motive, right? The other guys with motives are that cute pink kid and Furudo, the one leading the charge on all this. No one's gonna vote for them over us, and probably no one should. But someone's definitely gonna be voting in their own self-interests, and there's only one way that death's not gonna be in vain.

[deicider]

No, but the fact of the matter is, Pep pep has already agreed to die, and that's our category.

So congratulations, someone else already put their skin on the line. Avante doesn't have to do anything.

[unbr8kable]

So you're saying you want to vote for this kid? Who else? We got 4 to go.

[softlyfalling]

I think Heart Soldier Senshi said they had the weapon...

[unbr8kable]

Wild City, too.

Wanna say bar team said they had a location, and plants and goths got the murder method. Wizards aren't here and the others haven't said. Should be three for each thing.

[deicider]

I'm going to go report avante's category and check on the strategy s far.

[unbr8kable]

[folds her arms, looks away]

...You're only giving Taisho and Sensitiv more power, but fine, do what you want.

[deicider]

We can't fight either of them at the cost of everyone else.

[Cardigan out]

[unbr8kable]

All those teams're still gonna die, but glad you get to feel holier than thou about it!

[calls after but doesn't do anything to stop them, scowling instead]

[softlyfalling]

What should we do, then... if self-sacrifice isn't well-regarded by these, ah, producers.