sensitIV

[idolpro]

[ The elevator opens up to a room spacious enough to house the whole unit comfortably, but with no furniture to speak of except a touchscreen podium near the far wall, displaying a row of four larger-than-life mahjong tiles on a red background. On the left side of the screen is a square that says TRADE. The walls and floor of the room are nearly checkered with metal panels, out of place against the rest of the marble flooring and unremarkable off-white walls.

The elevator doors close behind you. ]

Comments

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

[ cool this is an excellent first game to ever have ]

. . . . No matter how I look at these tiles, they're all. . .

[rollwillpowercheck]

[THIS IS GREAT, EVERYTHING'S GREAT, NO INTERNAL SCREAMING IS GOING ON AT ALL,]

This is... bad...

[sancrimony]

. . . Uhm . . . I think it is unfair to charge healing prices to a unit that we've hurt . . .

[ this is absolutely the priority conversation that should be happening here ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[gives a jerky nod]

... I was just thinking the same thing.

[forgottenmercy]

Ah, agreed.

[bevoted]

I don't care about charging prices if the alternative is anyone on this team getting hurt.

[sancrimony]

. . . Mm, I understand.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

... ... .... .... I don't know how much I believe all of this. But the clock is ticking, and the best way to protect ourselves is to play the highest piece, I think.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[rollwillpowercheck]

That's--

[takes a deep breath. ok. okokok.]

In terms of strategy, yes. After all, we can... reattach... it later. But I don't...

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

You don't want to hurt the other teams. [ understanding. ... honestly, it's still hard to fully process this. ]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[rollwillpowercheck]

If...

[just sort of staring at a fixed point as he speaks, rather than at anyone or anything in particular]

We have. Three options, I think. One: we can play to win. Two: we can try to play lower tiles to minimize the damage, and, uh, hope that the other units choose the same strategy. Three: we can... not play.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

Ah -

[ opening his mouth to protest at first, before closing his mouth. then, he speaks again, slowly ]

. . . Mathematically, so long as we're in the higher bracket it would work the best. Anything that is . . . mm . . .

Anything higher than a five will give us a higher likelihood of being accepted than not.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

Do we really want to rely on "mathematically"? What if we mess up, Lucifel?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

Do you take out a flamethrower to kill an ant?

[ i mean it's dantalion so ]

I think . . . it is possible to choose a tile that will grant us protection without accidentally overcompensating. . .

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[forgottenmercy]

But they also want us to decide who, and not just what. [folding his hands in his lap.] ...and...

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

[ ... he might not have gotten that far in thinking about this. ]

Yeah. ... but what else can we do? ... I don't want to see you or anyone else here get the brunt of our mercy.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[forgottenmercy]

We have to decide, but who. Who are we going to hurt?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[forgottenmercy]

...extremely bad. [violence is one thing. clean, fast death. but this is not that.]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

. . . I wonder if we can expect this kind of trend. . .

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[forgottenmercy]

I think it would be, ah, safest to assume so and hope to be proven wrong than the other way around.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

. . . . I'm glad we were able to get the abilities we did.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[artificialinelegance]

I'm gonna shit. Really, we gotta do this?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

. . . Technically, we could abstain.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[artificialinelegance]

That gets us turbofucked, don't it? I ain't down for that. You know goddamn 100% full well my thoughts on any'a y'all gettin' turbofucked.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

Yes, I know. I don't intend to let us be injured . . .

[ even if maybe that might be the better optio ]