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

[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

[forgottenmercy]

Not playing isn't, ah, really an option. That just means we can't decide anything.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[rollwillpowercheck]

I know. It's not the choice I'd go for, but.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

... aside from one person, everyone I've met in this place has been, ... [ he was going to say reasonable but then he remembered *zrael ]

... Probably not murderous. But aside from Heart Soldier Senshi I really don't feel like I can say what any of the other units will do.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[rollwillpowercheck]

They're all probably having a very similar discussion right now.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

It's the result of that discussion that matters. Whether they conclude that they can't trust the other units to play low or not.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

. . . I don't wish to play a tile that we cannot personally amend the damage to ourselves.

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

[bevoted]

[ HE ABSOLUTELY WOULD DO THAT YES TIME TO ASK HOW MUCH A FLAMETHROWER COSTS ]

... tsk. [ he feels scolded but. he's too freaked out to back down ] That's assuming no one else just decides to go with their highest piece.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

That is also assuming that they will use their highest piece on us. The odds of that are one in eight, for any given tile, and the odds of choosing the highest piece is one in nine . . .

. . . No, one in eight. Every tile but the 9 point tile will affect only one person, but the 9 point tile will affect an entire unit. I doubt - I very much doubt that anyone will choose that tile.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

.............

[ Yeah his eyes are glazing over, Lucy. ]

Why do you doubt that? [ shooting straight to the questioning the morals of the other units part ]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[artificialinelegance]

No, but I take out a flamethrower to kill a hive of cockroaches!

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[sancrimony]

I don't think this is really a hive . . . and I don't think that is really necessary. What if you burn down the house?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[artificialinelegance]

Then we just gotta make sure we're not inside of it!

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

[bevoted]

......... I know who I don't want to hurt more than I know who I do.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[forgottenmercy]

Who don't you want to hurt?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[bevoted]

Heart Soldier Senshi. ..... one of theirs already got his arms broken, but more than that I know they won't play high. ... I've gotten to know one of their members really well and she'd break their arms herself before they did that. [ probably. i mean actually probably not but you get the point. ]