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Castle Game: Heart Soldier Senshi

[Suddenly, you hear the wailing of a horn. Outside, tension is turning to panic. You can't see anything, but you can hear people gathering up their things, sobbing in fear or speaking in harsh whispers. A lone voice calls from the distance:

The enemy approaches!

Upon the map, an unfamiliar geography appears -- several small nations, clustered together. Outside of them, an endless sea of enemy forces, identified only by a symbol of a cracked skull. Each of the small nations is marked with a flag in one unit's colour, and a tiny model of a castle.

You are at war. How will you protect your people and yourself?

(Rules & questions are here. Cleo is your gamerunner!)

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People would be stealing this round from the bigger units, and...possibly the bigger unit could steal from the smaller. If we still wanted to attempt getting Pep Pep above zero....

[ THIS IS A STRETCH. ]

Then we give two to them, and keep one for us.

We could give them three, honestly. The larger points units probably will steal amongst each other--or target Pep!Pep! again, considering we've held steady. Sometime might also give us a pack since we're one of the smaller ones.

But either way, we're probably not looking at being able to climb out of the hole we're in to greater safety--but we could potentially get Pep!Pep! out of theirs.

[ ...you know what, nodding. ]

I'm okay with that. It's a tough decision. But not doing anything...will make it harder.

[ HARDER TO...accept, that is. That they didn't try. ]

It likely won't be pleasant. ... However, as long as we're not in the lowest bracket, we should be okay. And for King....

I don't think we will end up in the lowest bracket, I think with some luck....we might come out okay.

...and it's worth the gamble, if we can keep everyone from that last one.

[ Honestly just looking

very grateful to Hiryuu right now ]

You already know this is how I would prefer to play this.

I know.

[ reaches out and pats his hand ]

Let's see what we can do.

[ ... He turns his hand to catch hers, holding onto it. ]

Thank you.

[ This is the face of someone who is in a deep struggle between 'being the reasonable, mature adult' and 'wanting to fucking scream' and 'what if, I just be selfish this time'. ]

No.

[ Oh dear. ]

... The odds that we're going to die are high, Eclipse. No one is helping Pep!Pep! enough to save them since they're giving away all of theirs. ... Wouldn't it be better if we all escaped the very worst possible outcome...?

Edited 2019-06-19 05:08 (UTC)

Don't tell me pep pep has been giving away what they have without knowing they're going to suffer consequences for it. They can't control people stealing from them but they can control how much they're giving. If they were aiming to survive they wouldn't be giving it all away.

I'd rather fucking steal, and I don't care if we give one or two, but if we give it all away then we're not even fucking trying any more! How the hell am I supposed to trust any of you when I'm right here and all of you don't even try!

Edited 2019-06-19 05:17 (UTC)

[ Since this just shot straight into FuckYouville -- ]

Just because they're playing to protect their friends and not themselves doesn't mean we should consign them to the worst possible punishment when there's something we could do about it.

And who the fuck is going to be watching out for us?

... No one.

Does that mean we should never help others?

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[ she takes a deep breath.

and then lets it go.

SHE'S BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD ON THIS ANGER MANAGEMENT THING.... ]

Pep!Pep! could control how they've been behaving, yes, but--even so, people have been stealing at least one, if not more, from them every time. And we don't know what their mind-set is. They may have given up, thinking they'll die with the worst consequences for sure, so why struggle? Maybe they're fine accepting that, but... that doesn't mean we have to go along with it.

I'm willing to accept Prim's compromise, but--I don't appreciate you accusing us of not even trying when we opted not to send anything and retain all of our property in the first round. We agreed to do what we can to preserve ourselves within a reasonable limit--not to play so hard as to not be able to look at ourselves in the mirror afterward.

Edited 2019-06-19 05:33 (UTC)

[A little taken aback — but a little grateful she said that, too, honestly.]

[ What she said. ]

[ Hold on he needs to breathe himself. He doesn't like being angry? It turns out being angry is tiring? But come on, he has to pull himself together and be mature. ]

I just...I think it wouldn't really make them feel all that great if we helped them at our own expense and we ended up dying for it. But maybe that's my own selfishness.

Just... [ He sighs. ] I'm sorry for accusing all of you. I just don't want us to die.

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I have a compromise.

I know you don't want us to fail either, and I haven't forgotten the conversation we all had. So...what if we keep one bundle for ourselves, and two to Pep Pep? If we could....at
least get them out of the lowest tier.

[ fret fret fret. ]

[ Give him a second he needs to like. Breathe.

It turns out being angry is tiring? ]

...Like...Like I said, I'd be fine with giving one or two. I just...I just don't want to give it all away.

[ ... ]

I know, I know. [ And the chances of shit going bad this round? High. Even keep one bundle would put them at five, with the off chance no one steals and no one gifts. ]

So we're going to keep one, and the other two we can give. The aim wasn't to...disrupt the entire meeting we had. Just.

[ Pep Pep does not deserve to die and neither do we? ]

[Yyyeah, he was expecting this.]

...you vetoing?

Edited 2019-06-19 05:28 (UTC)

[ WHAT IF WE GAVE THEM ALL THREE-- ]

...

Are you really alright with that?

[ There's no way they're winning with this strategy. ]

I mean. I am, long's there's no vetoes.

If we can keep everyone out of that bottom tier...

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