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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

[we_meet_again]

Oh...

...What would you like to do? Is there a different way you'd like to play?

Re: Discussion

[pkinpink]

I-- I don't know! But two balloons already disappeared, and... w-what if someone sees us as a safe choice because we everyone thinks we're always lucky and always win?

Re: Discussion

[worldlyafflictions]

Haha, right? I'm still always wondering when that'll happen! Even though it hasn't yet.

Aaah... It's always tempting ta say 'let's just go hard and wrap up the game quickly!' But then ya just gotta deal with things getting shittier next time 'cause everybody's learning ta expect the worst from each other. The tension after games that go that way really sucks!

Re: Discussion

[pkinpink]

Y-You're all so cold about this...

Re: Discussion

[worldlyafflictions]

Yeah? Aren't ya talking about killing people that others wanna protect? I'm not saying I'm really opposed, since I'm not looking forward ta dying either, but there's not like a secret way that won't happen if we hit people, after all. It's good ta know what you're asking for if you're asking for it.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

Pachuun.

That's the opposite of reassuring.

Re: Discussion

[worldlyafflictions]

Right, sorry! It's just something I end up thinking about a lot.

Re: Discussion

[we_meet_again]

[Crouches next to her, making himself smaller since he's like twice her height]

I mean... Anything is possible. People may see us as a safe choice, the way we thought LiliS was a safe choice. But on the other hand, we don't have many enemies, so we may not be anyone's priority as a target. It's a gamble.

I may be... wrong... about this... but I feel like whether we live or die depends more on chance and other people's actions than what we do here. Even if we play three balloons for the next two rounds, we could die anyway. Or we could only send one balloon each round and still live.

I can't control the actions of others, but I can control myself. So I have to think about what actions I can live with. I feel bad about the idea of making someone else die so I can live. I would rather just die. But that's not a decision that I can make for you.

I'm very sorry to ask you this, but please think about which one will make you feel worse once this is over: to kill other people so you can live, or to die and be revived.