future is now

[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

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then as long as you are okay with rolling the dice.

Any unit that's on or off the table for you?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[* did play three]

No unit is off the table. Which units do you think are most likely to hit us...? Those would be my top choices, since we likewise always have a chance we'll going to push someone over the edge, and I'd prefer it to be strategic. Normally I'd offer LiLiS, but they owe me a favor after the last game.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Likely to hit us... Hmm.

Which units were most upset with how you handled the Murder Mystery Game?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Probably your business partner and that self-sacrificial, holier-than-thou pep!pep! girl.

[giggles]

I wonder how she's handling this game.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not well, I imagine. And my business partner wouldn't give a fuck if I killed him again. The reverse being true as well.

Pep!Pep! is a good choice because they are fairly popular so it's unlikely they will get many votes in the first round.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

That makes them a bad choice...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Why does that make them a bad choice?

Are you looking to take units out in the first round?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

It being the first round doesn't matter. They accumulate for all the rounds, so where we place each of our chips counts. And this game doesn't end until enough units are knocked out, right...?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If you're looking at it from a purely gameplay mechanics perspective, then yes.

But it's not that simple.

Silence is asking to pick two units, and I agree with her reasoning considering the outcome of the last game like this. But the rest of the unit also wants to minimize damage and see how everyone else plays in this first round.

You asked what unit was likely to hit us, but that's only part of the issue here. We are historically picked due to lack of options, not out of maliciousness. And I do think that pep!pep! would consider us in light of their lack of options.

Which is why they are a good unit to pick that aligns with everyone's priorities.

The other suggestion on the table is AlcheME! unless you have a better one.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

I didn't ask which units harbored malice towards us, I just asked which were likely to choose us. Apathy is as good a reason as any.

...We can move forward with those choices, though. Like I said, we can evaluate better next round with a bit more information.