avante en garde

[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

[aboyandhiscar]

[???????]

Wait so, does this mean when didn't get hit at all last round?

Re: Discussion

[unbr8kable]

[equally confused]

Or only once, right? Since we got a protection.

...What do you wanna do now?

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

Yeah. . .uh, that's my line. Either we lose by losing six balloons or having among the lowest number, right? So. We can hit three, and gain one, so it'll cancel out two potential hits. Or we can defend, and cancel out one potential hit.

So I guess it's a matter of thinking whether we'll be safe with only 8 or 7 balloons.

Re: Discussion

[unbr8kable]

Yeah... Well... We've gotta be lower than some people. If we wanna protect ourselves, we should cancel out as much as we can.

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

I'm down with that, but. . .we can hit Lilis again. But the two other would have to be folks you guys like. You said you didn't wanna hit Baritones still?

Re: Discussion

[emotionalsupportghost]

That's what it looks like.

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

Yeah! [HM HM HM DON'T SHOW THAT YOU'RE WORRIED CUZ THIS MEANS FOLKS MIGHT GET THEM THIS ROUND]

Okay, okay. So. . .if we're gonna prioritize living, that means we're either gonna end up with 8 or 7 balloons left.

Re: Discussion

[emotionalsupportghost]

If we pop two balloons, one of our balloons is protected. So if we get hit twice, only one counts.

If we pop three balloons, we get a bonus back. So if we get hit twice we'll still gain one, it's the same as only one of them counting.

Popping only two balloons makes the most sense for this round. It's the same outcome either way, and this is the last round so it doesn't matter after this. ...And if we don't get hit at all, I don't think having "only" ten balloons will lose the game for us.

Re: Discussion

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Math. ]

I'm good with just two balloons.

Re: Discussion

[composeur]

[ oddly quiet.... but he's not arguing so you can take that as a 'yes sure' ]

Re: Discussion

[unbr8kable]

[maaaaath]

...You sure that's how it works?

Re: Discussion

[composeur]

[ ??????????????????????

uhhhhhhHHHHH

just gonna sit down on the floor now i guess what ]

Re: Discussion

[calmthefoxdown]

[ ... r u ok... ]

Re: Discussion

[composeur]

[ he's totally fine! he likes the floor. ]

.... oh! Your face just reminded me! I got the stabbing healing ability thing!!

Re: Discussion

[calmthefoxdown]

Oh, that's good. It'll help during those games where they don't heal up everyone after maiming them.

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

[leans down to pat him on the head]

What's up man?

Re: Discussion

[composeur]

[ jerks a bit at the head pat-- looking up with a somewhat startled expression. touch... ]

Ah? Oh. Nothing. No one voted for us. [ so... ] I was just thinking "we're really that unremarkable"?

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

Nah, I think people are just that chill. Maybe folks have been defending themselves too, y'know?

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

Okay, looks like we're going for 2 to defend.

And the votes would be for. . .Lilis and, Baritones. Anyone got any objections, seriously, I wanna hear them.

Re: Discussion

[composeur]

[ i mean he literally voted for BARiTONES earlier but, ]

Hmmm... I wonder if Tenshi and Kohime will get mad?

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

I have no idea who that is.

Re: Discussion

[unbr8kable]

[doesn't bring anything up, though]

Re: Discussion

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Feeling kinda bad since Baritones protected us that one game... ]

We don't have any other unspoken alliances we should be considering, do we... ?

Re: Discussion

[unbr8kable]

The Lilis thing never became real, right?

Re: Discussion

[aboyandhiscar]

You'll have to tell me that. From the sounds of it, you guys have lots of friends, but no real alliances.