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[idolpro]

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.

Comments

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Two balloons, huh? That's about as expected.

We have baritones, avante, and wild city to choose from next. We're all still okay with just one?

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

[ he just nods. ]

Next round if we lose anything we might have to go hard to avoid losing... assuming that's what we want to do... but one for now.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

['assuming that's what we want to do' ahahaha.]

We'll see about that next time. Shall we go for baritones now, do you think?

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

[ yeeeeeeeeah. sobs. ]

Who else is on the table?

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Avante and wild city.

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

What do you think? Baritones now or...

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

[Wednesday swallows, then nods.]

I'd... rather stick with one.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[Nods]

Okay. Do you want us to skip baritones again?

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

Um...

[She shakes her head without really thinking about it--]

Not if there's someone else you'd rather protect more.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

If I'm allowed to be selfish, so are you Wednesday-chan. You're allowed to want to protect your friends.

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh, I'm being selfish enough already...! Heart Soldier, Bad End - sensiIV... that was all me, wasn't it? I only saw a couple of them before the game, and Yvette...

Please. Don't let me make any more trouble than I have.

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

We seem to be doing all right. Now that we know, nobody can throw all their attacks at us at once, we shouldn't have that many people left to gun for us.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

The maths is certainly in our favour. Any preference on which team we target for this round?

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

I guess Wild City? If we're taking Avante off the table. Baritones is more likely to be at risk now.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

If they're more at risk, then doesn't that mean they're at risk of not being around next time?

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

I need to know what our objective here is. Are we trying to mitigate damage? Isn't that why we chose Lilis? I will go with whatever people need. But I need to understand our goal.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

[counting with her fingers]

There's still 9 units that can target us, right? But this isn't about staying afloat, if by the time the game is up we're one of the units with the least balloons left, we'll die anyway...

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

Can. That doesn't mean they will.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

I'm not saying they'd do it because they want to, but if they're playing to protect themselves, they'll also have a limited pool of targets to pick from.

I guess what I mean is... I don't want to end up dying anyway because we didn't protect ourselves... the rules say that half of the units have to die no matter what.

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

If you don't think the numbers favor us, I'm not against protecting the team.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

... I'm okay with it, in terms of not harming others.

But at the same time, I'm worried we'll end up dying anyway, even if we don't get hit hard.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

...Then, do you think we should be playing more balloons?

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

It depends.

Are we playing to protect ourselves and survive? Or are we playing to protect other people? 'Cause I'm not sure if we can do both.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

...I want you all to survive. But I'd have to kill your friends to fight for it, without even a guarantee that it would be enough.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

[exhales, nodding]



... If only we could know how many balloons other units have left...