idolpro | 3 WAY PRISONER'S DILEMMA: BAD END=DEAD END

[ The room you wake up in is barren. The floor, walls, and ceiling are all metal, and the only furnishings are a large television-sized touchscreen monitor and a massive pane of glass cutting through the room, separating Prisoner from the rest of the unit. You can beat against the glass as much as you like, but it won't break. Both the touchscreen monitor and the elevator doors are on the same side of the room as everyone but the hostage.

Once Mukuro finishes his intro spiel, the monitor display switches to a catalogue of pictures of flowers, each with their name, associated meaning, and a checkbox underneath them: ]

Amaryllis (Red&White) - Talkative
Baby's Breath - Purity of Heart
Calla Lily (White) - Maidenly Desire
Camellia (Red) - Perish with grace
Camellia (White) - Waiting
Cherry Blossom - Transience of all things
Foxglove - Insincerity
Hydrangea (Blue) - Heartlessness
Iris - Faithfulness
Lantana - Change of Heart
Marigold - Despair
Morning Glory - Willful promise
Mountain Laurel (Red) - Ambition
Oleander - Caution
Poppy (Red) - Fun-loving
Poppy (White) - Rejoice
Poppy (Yellow) - Success
Tulip (Red) - Fame/Charity/Trust
Yarrow (White) - Conflict

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

....Really? That's where you going with this right now?

You did talk to flowers...

They were talking back!

You talk to flowers?

One time! It was one time!

I want to hear about this.

[ Sanguine sighs. It is a sigh of only the deepest of long-suffering. ]

It was one of the memories I bought. I don't remember what I did, but I'd done something that made some flowers start talking in a park near where I lived. The memory was mostly be going around and talking to them all.

....

[Don't say "was the thing you did drugs?" don't do it.]

Ah... Huh? That sounds weird for sure.

[ EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY DID! ]

Yeah.... I still have no idea how it happened.

[WELL.]

...Maybe it was like a status effect?

[ He looks EXHAUSTED. Like he's definitely heard arguments along these lines. More than once. ]

....It wasn't a status effect. It was really happening.

[Poor Sanguine.]

Maybe you're just a plant-whisperer.

[ It's not like the actual reason they were talking would sound any less insane if he remembered it. ]

Maybe....

[ He doesn't think that's it. ]

You don't sound convinced.

I'm not.

[ He lets out a long sigh. ]

It's not like I can point at an answer and say "That's definitely it!" But no one has come up with anything that sounds like it's the right fit.