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When the game starts, you find something grabbing onto your ankle and dragging you under the ballpit until you find yourself sitting on a disco floor platform with your team. It is only being held up by eleven balloons.

You make decisions on a cool arcade machine where you can SELECT A TEAM'S BALLOON. If a character is blind or has no hands or smth, you can assume things can be read to you and you can automatically pick through your speech. Thanks, Alexa.

If you look over the platform, you can see a lot of sparkling rainbow spikes below.

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Okay! Let's get this straight, we're not hitting Taisho, fin, SensitIV, HSS, bad end, Alcheme or ☆zrael.

We'd also like to avoid hitting LiliS if possible, but they're on the table.

The teams we can hit are avante, wild city and baritones. With the way the maths are stacked, there's no way we can play to pop three balloons in any round.

What we can do is play one balloon this round on baritones, leaving ourselves unprotected and counting on having enough friends that we won't be hit six times in the first round. I think our odds are good on that one. Is everyone alright to try and play only one balloon at a time for now?

I am definitely ok for one balloon at a time. I... like to think we'll be ok. I know we shouldn't count on it, but I also don't want to hurt the people we're doing our best to protect. It- It seems like we'll have a target for each round if we play like this besides...

That only works if one of the teams we're considering as targets doesn't get piled up on during one of the rounds...

... Or if they don't die.

[she.

she has sort of checked out and is now in a not!corner, listening]

[Comes over to hang out with her, cautiously puts a hand on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort]

We'll have to adjust our strategy after this round, but it doesn't hurt to have something resembling one going forward, just so we don't have to rehash all of this information.

Mm. [nods]

I just think we should also consider... a worst case scenario from the start.

[such as one where we eat shit during the first round]

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sleeplessknight - 2019-04-28 01:10 (UTC) - Expand

If we get into trouble, we can adjust our strategy. For now though, I think we'll be okay. We won't have to hurt our friends.

[ nods slowly and sucks in a sharp breath. ]

Exactly. So have we reached a decision?

sorta

...Pink-kun?

Edited (oops situational nicknames) 2019-04-28 00:50 (UTC)

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heroicsacrifeyes - 2019-04-28 01:01 (UTC) - Expand

But--

[Yvette. What about Yvette?

[Is Yvette even here? And - oh, but they've ruled so many units out already...]

O-okay. Yes. I think one would be best for now.

...Are you sure?

[It seems like you have doubts]

It's okay if you have someone else you'd like to protect, Wednesday-chan.

Well... Yvette's on Baritones, too, but I didn't see her before the game... And we've already ruled so many people out we can barely spread out our choices.

If you're worried about her, we can protect Baritones too. But it would mean we'd have to put someone else up instead. It's a horrible choice, but, we need to decide who we want to protect most.

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wonderlandgirl - 2019-04-28 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

I like Yvette too. But we're low on options. And they've shown they're willing to play really hard. Maybe they'll protect themselves.

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wonderlandgirl - 2019-04-28 01:01 (UTC) - Expand

I'd rather go for one balloon and see what happens. Or we're going to run out of options too quickly. If we get targeted, at most it will be three. If that happens, none of them will be able to hit us again.

The rules say you can only target a team once, so doesn't that mean one team couldn't target us three times in a round?

They'd have to really want to take us out? You think our blood is that bad with any of them?

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malignstar - 2019-04-28 00:55 (UTC) - Expand

[raises his hand]

Question!

If we're just playing one balloon in the first round, which I prefer, I would like our three target choices to be in order of who we would like to target least, of our available options.

For example, I don't want to hit LiliS! I hope that others don't as well, so hopefully they won't take much damage!

On the other hand, I expect Baritones to be playing the maximum amount of balloons, which means they may have unpoppable balloons by the time the third round comes along. That means if we wind up playing two or more balloons, they have a greater chance of not being affected by it.

Does that make sense? I'm not sure. Someone please give me a reality check.

Oh, I hadn't thought about that, but you're right.

-!

[ fff. ]

Makes sense.

It's not a bad idea, but it has to be balanced with how popular - or unpopular, a team is.

Baritones have made themselves a target with the last game, and it's possible everyone will pile on them. If six other teams decide to hit them now, whe they don't have any unpoppable balloons, they'll go down.

So we have to decide, if we want to play it now and risk helping to kill them, or risk others sending them down before they can protect themselves, and having to put one of our other teams back on the list.

Right... Them making themselves a target means that they might be other people's first choice, as well. If we send our balloon to someone less likely to be targeted, Baritones has a better chance of surviving the first round. That's another reason why I'd prefer to send a balloon to a different unit that may be targeted less in general.

[But maybe it doesn't even matter in the end since some amount of units will die even if they have more than six balloons.]