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☆ZRAEL

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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[gesturing grandiosely with her hands]

A proposal!

If we want to keep up the 3 balloons per round strategy, everyone's important units should get targeted equally. For the sake of fairness.

... I would have rather done that in the first round. Since we had a better idea of how everyone was doing.

It's not an awful idea, but.

It's easier than trying to figure out who NOT to hit.

That's not untrue, but...

[ hesitates ]

I don't want to watch them die knowing I was the one who dropped one of ours onto that shit. I guess.

[huffs, then shrugs]

...Counter-proposal. There are eight units left we can choose, and six of us. We each choose one unit to eliminate and attack the remaining two.

If the game makes it to the third round, we'll pick randomly.

I mean, I'm cool with that, but I'd rather avoid any of you resenting me if I end up choosing to hit one of the units where you have important people.

I have important people on half the units left. There's basically no way to avoid it if we want to protect ourselves.

All I'm hearing is you guys should be the ones to sort this out among yourselves.

...You really don't have anyone you don't want to hit?

Nope. No one I care enough about outside this unit.

[that's sad]

[Maki doesn't make any further comment though, just goes back to planning to hit both ex-boyfriends and three different crushes]

If we're going to hit any of the most important ones at all, I'd rather hit them all than pick and choose only two of three, honestly...

We could, though.

The idea is that it's the two least important. Everyone gets to pick their top most important unit to avoid.

I think the problem is everyone's is different, except you and M-E.

Our top picks in general are Pep, Avante, Fin, and Dia has both Sensitiv and WC equally. Right?

Yeah. Which would leave Bad End, AlcheME and Heart Soldier Senshi.

[.........wait I like all those people]

[ so do I, but. ]

... they're also the most likely to forgive us, if word gets out.

I don't care about that.

[flatly.]

And I don't—really want to attack any of them. But...

[sets her jaw and looks slightly away]

I said I'd make sure we didn't die. So... Let's do those three.

Re: Discussion

stakesthesame - 2019-04-28 02:31 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Discussion

rollplayinghouse - 2019-04-28 02:35 (UTC) - Expand

[ expression settling into a slight scowl ]

... I know you think you're the only logical one here, but I wouldn't even put a unit on the no-hit list if I didn't think there was some strategic value behind it.

Oh? Excuse me, I thought we were exclusively using our hearts to make these choices.

Is there something pragmatic about screwing over the units that are actually willing to prioritize us over others? Sorry, guess I'm not the intellectual type.

No, no, see, I'm the ignorant one here. I just can't think of a single unit that would actually care to keep me from dying, but I have no idea about the rest of your connections, so...

[waves her hand vaguely]

I'll let you guys sort this out yourselves, I'm fine with whatever as long as we don't end up at a disadvantage.

[ his scowl grows deeper ]

Really, 'cause I distinctly remember our heads not exploding in the game that was all about that.

But yeah, whatever, suit yourself. We will and we won't.

Look, as far as I'm concerned that happened because future is now protected us, but that means nothing in a game like this. That's just one balloon out of what? Ten we have left.

I'm just saying if you guys are confident in your friends not targeting you, then by all means, let's return the favor. But I, personally, have no idea who we can actually rely on. Which is why you should decide how we play this.

[ LOUDLY WHISPERING ]

oh man too bad we don't have any reliable agreements with anyone or ANYTHING