idolpro | 3 WAY PRISONER'S DILEMMA: Heart Soldier Senshi

[ 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 Wire 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

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[And then, yeah, this is bullshit.]

[He is trying to break in this glass - and when fists don't do anything, he hauls back and smashes it with the fake leg a few times.]

[Nathan's quickly realized the pointlessness of trying to break him free. Untransforming, he bangs on the glass to get Hurricane's attention.]

Forget it! Focus on the mission!

This mission's bullshit.

[But he's going to stop trying to break the glass in, at least - subsides, breathing hard.]

[Whatever anxiety Nathan was feeling took a back seat to the steely determination in his voice.]

I know. But we need t'get through it.

...yeah. Yeah, you're right.

[Takes a second to pull hismelf together. Then:]

So how're we playing this?

We need to figure out who we're dealing with. The other two units could be our allies - we don't know.

Everyone's first move should be tryin' to communicate who they are. At least, if they're smart.

Okay. Okay, so we pick traits that match our team?

What about, uh. Faithfulness and talkative?

I wouldn't say we're all talkative... [Looks at Abi. Looks at himself.]

But, [with a cynical snort,] we definitely perish with grace. And most've you are pure of heart.

Perish with grace could be misinterpreted as a motivation toward others, though. ... Or it might seem like our desire for the game. We should be careful to realize that we can't know for sure how they'll read these flowers.

Yeah, yeah. Pure've heart works, then.

Works for me, too.

Odds are we could get mistaken for AlcheME, but that's not the worst association.

Yeah. If we're gonna get taken for anyone, that's not a bad mix-up.

Lemme go put our choice in.

All right.

...Hey. Good job, Hurricane.

[God he doesn't want Nathan to get hurt.]

...think you better wait to say that till we see how this all plays out.

No. I mean...

[He wants to say it in case he can't say it ever again.]

No matter what, I'm proud've you.

Re: DISCUSSION

crossmyheartandhope - 2018-07-21 01:31 (UTC) - Expand

Either that or the Poppy and Baby's Breath would work well.

Yeah... any of those are good.

[ nathan made a good point about the talkative one. ]

Why don't we settle for Baby's Breath and the Red Poppy for now?

[ Glancing to Mori and Abi for feedback. ]

That gives us plenty of options for the next round, depending on what we receive.

Yeah... yeah, makes sense.

I'll go put em in.

Y...Yeah. Yeah, those two, are fine. We need to make sure we have enough to show good will later, but, those are fine.

[ this is going to sound a little bit cold, but somebody's gotta keep it together right now. ]

Of course it is. But you still need to try to calm down. You're scaring Abi.

[Gllllancing over at Abi. And he sure is pulling himself back together again.]

...yeah. Yeah, sorry.

Let's just - figure out what we're doing.

It's fine. You're scared. We all are. But we need to work together now.

Yeah. Mission first, right?

So how are we playing this?