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future is now

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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[ oops mom is here too ]

Oh dear, I imagine my pies really will burn at this rate.

You were baking?!

And about to start cooking.

What are you cooking? Pie aside.

I thought it might be a nice night for kabobs, but now I'm afraid that might be a bit insensitive. Spaghetti and meatballs, maybe?

No. We would not die by being lanced, we would die by a fall from a great height. So it would not be too insensitive.

Oh! Yes at that rate, kabobs would be much more tasteful than meatballs.

[nods]

I missed your cooking. It will be nice to try some after this.

Do you have any opinions on how we should play this, Mother?

This is one of your first games, isn't it?

It is, I'm afraid.

Now, if I understand this all properly, it's another extrapolation on the prisoner's dilemma: whether to mitigate damage to ourselves and risk harm to others, or to seek minimal damage to the collective and risk our own vulnerability.

As your mother, your safety is always my first concern.

In that we are all aligned.

Play hard enough to protect ourselves, but not to paint a target on our back.

Sharp as always. What's your plan?

First round is intel gathering. We'll pick two teams - popular ones that probably won't get a lot of votes in order to protect ourselves and minimize damage.

Once we get a feel for the atmosphere, we'll adjust accordingly.