idolpro | avante en garde

Entry tags:

left

avante en garde

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Are we that unpopular? Three seems like a lot...

Three seems a whole lot. If you're trying to get targeted next round, maybe it's a good way...

Exactly. Starting with one or two would be safer.

...You planning on playing to win?

I'd settle for playing to keep us alive. Winning shouldn't matter in this kind of game.

[nods, the calls up the rules, actually reading them this time]

Then... If they can't tell it's us 'til after...maybe it's better to do the three after all.

[ NOT...REAL COMFORTABLE but he nods slowly. This at least is easier to handle than Leo's excitement ]

So that's two of us for three balloons.

I mean... That's one protection, right? And nobody'll know, right? And the faster people're knocked out, the quicker all this's over...right? So...makes sense.

It is. And it's protection that won't go away.

I still think popping two balloons is enough. It would stop one of ours from getting broken for this round, so— But if Gold or Mike agree with you two, I won't argue.

Alright. If they wanna do less, then... Majority rules is fair, I guess.

Yeah...

I think Mike might agree with you two. He's suggesting 3 to start off with.

[nods]

If the thing's gonna drag on no matter what, may as well make it quick. Don't gotta be personal.

Agreed. As soon as we settle on the number, we should pick the team we hit at random—after taking our vetoes out. It'll take us too long if we don't.

(no subject)

unbr8kable - 2019-04-28 00:50 (UTC) - Expand

Hmmmm... well my first game I was told that we're not anyone's number one choice to protect. But then that Baritones team protected us out of nowhere! But I don't think we can count on them a second time.

And it's less about being "unpopular" and more about not being "popular" right? [ continues on as if he didn't just blatantly contradict himself, ] The teams that are going down first are the ones that people don't really care about enough to protect! That's just how it goes! So having insurance against that would be good, wouldn't it?

Nemesis makes a good point that starting with three pops could make us an even bigger target in the next round. People will want revenge, you know?

Wahaha! At least then they would be voting for us for a better reason than "we don't care about them at all"!

Hey, who do you think everyone hates the most here? Zrael, Baritones maybe? The pink team? Once they're gone we're next because no one cares. [ just saying. ]

So your big plan is to give them a real reason to hate us?

...Don't think of it like going easy on anyone else. This is about making sure we don't give people a reason to come after us. We should start smaller.

They won't know even if we do pop their balloons. But this isn't about "going easy", this is about not becoming a casualty simply because we're completely and totally unremarkable in every way.

But it's okay if we fall too. That would be entertaining, right? Oh, do you want to try to be the martyr? Let's fall!! Have you died here yet? What does it feel like do you think? That might be exciting !!

[ GRABS HIS SHOULDER gentle, but firm in a "pay attention" kind of way ]

No one here wants us to die. Two balloons lets us stop one from getting popped. We're still protecting ourselves that way.

[ unfortunately, he is paying attention. ]

That's boring. Either we should vote 3 or we should vote 1 and be prepared to fall. Making such boring, safe choices won't give the audience any reason to cheer for us at all.

Fuck what the audience wants. This is about what we want.

For now, Nemesis agrees with you. We've just gotta see what Mike and Gold think now.

Nemesis does-? [ actual surprise. uh. huh? ... huh???

give him a second to process that, hm. ... hums. ]

What I want... I don't remember if I said already, so I'll say it again. I want to "win". Not the battle, but the war.

I remember. I still want to help you with that. We just... We've got different ideas about how to do that.

But no matter what, we've got to work together as a team. Why else would they put us in these units?

[ ....hummm, ]

How should I know? [ it's a lot less aggressively pushing of a tone, rather ... his gaze drifts off, looking for something else to focus on ]

Probably... for entertainment.

Probably. But not the same kind of entertainment they get from watching us fight with the other units in these games.

(no subject)

composeur - 2019-04-28 01:26 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

emotionalsupportghost - 2019-04-28 01:27 (UTC) - Expand

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only