GM Game: Taisho Roman Revolution

[idolpro]

[ The door shuts behind you, leaving you in a copy of this room. Upon one of the fancy tables is your card for the round, along with slots for each unit for you to go slide in your choices.

You can come and go as you will, but once you have left the room, you cannot speak of anything that transpires within: not your choices, not your discussion, not your alliances.

Do your best, idol-tachi. ]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

[ don't call him out on lack of weapons ]

I have points to afford it and depending on how annoying you get won't mourn the loss of them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

So it is not currently within your range of possibilities. Honestly, we are facing enough violence, it is abhorrent that you would perpetrate such acts entirely unwarranted.

Re: DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

You carried me like a goddamn child.

You're lucky I didn't opt to bite your ear off right then and there.

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

If wish not to be treated like a child, then do not conduct yourself as one would.

Re: DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

Aren't you the one who said I have none of the innocence or sweetness of a child? Make up your mind.

[ he has no better retort to that so he's just gonna look extra grumpy ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

Those are the parts that make children lovely, but they are not childhood's only characteristics.

Re: DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

It doesn't matter. I wasn't being childish.

Are you done lecturing me or what?

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

You have very poor standards for a lecture. We have not even been on this topic for a minute! And, unfortunately, you have also offered your opinion. You are only lucky that I see no need to waste more breath on you than the least I can manage.

Re: DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

I have such a surprising newfound appreciation for your normal self now. Uhm. Who would have thought.

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

I remember nothing of the person of which you speak.

Re: DISCUSSION

[time5kip]

That's how amnesia works.

[ which reminds him maybe he's being a bit too much of a jackass with him ]

I know you don't want to hurt other people, and I promise we're not going to do anything more than is strictly necessary. But we can't end up with a debt - not with these people running the show. It's dangerous for all parties involved.

So I'll appreciate your trust on the matter, and if there's something you are absolutely against no matter what, we can discuss it.

Like adults.

1/???

[syncintohell]

[ He pauses, and looks at the options.

Then opens his phone and begins reading the rules, formulating his thoughts. ]

[syncintohell]

[ At length, he says: ] I have listened to your words.

Re: DISCUSSION

[syncintohell]

But for me, understand, it is not a mere matter of finding violence uncouth, or unwarranted. And perhaps it means very little to say this without any knowledge of the foundations of my ideals, from whence my beliefs came, but nonetheless this is the one thing I know in this new and fraught world.

[syncintohell]

[ he taps the murder card and then the maiming card with his fingernail ]

I would be prepared to suffer if it meant by doing so I could preserve something of value. Human beings are not animals, moved solely by survival instinct. For the sake of what we love and hold dear, humans will willingly starve, walking inch by inch deliberately towards our own death. Artists who forgo sleep to work on masterpieces, revolutionaries who face their deaths rather than be spared if it meant betraying their ideals, a lover who will end their own life rather than be parted from a beloved who has lost their own. . . These are all human actions, and to me such things are precious.

So I am not against these cards for the reasons you may be thinking.

[syncintohell]

I am against them because I despise acting as an animal would, moved by sheer self-preservation, so desperate not to be harmed that I would so easily be cowed by threats and do unto others a punishment meant for me to take.

[syncintohell]

But the problem lies in that by refusing, I would in fact be offering you up to the chopping block, would I not? It is true, I do not love you. I know not a soul in this room apart from Adam. By sentencing myself, I would committing a tyrannical act, denying all of you and condemning you to suffer.

[syncintohell]

In this case, what can be done?

I have no answer. But it would be cowardly to make no decision, non?

8/8

[syncintohell]

[ he glances at his phone, the rules display open on it ]

Those who win are granted full heals, according to this. Which of the units here has suffered the most, and has a total that may allow them yet to win?

[time5kip]

You're using too many words as usual, but if it makes it any better, your reasoning is actually fairly in line with what I expected of you. Though I don't actually know you that well.

Survival's not as bad as you seem to think. There's nothing noble about enduring and suffering for the sake of a principle. At the end of the day people will take advantage of it and you'll be left a pile of blood. Not exactly worth keeping a pristine conscience.

I won't deny I want to survive. That instinct is basically all I know about myself - it's right in my profile. But you know why I'm so set on ensuring we won't end up in debt?

I don't want something worse to happen to you.

Taisho's everything I have and know right now. And I don't enjoy having no say or control in whether we'll suffer or not. I'm pretty sure I can handle a considerable amount of things. I but I don't want to have to see you break apart.

[ he'll get to his question but first, he wanted to make sure that's understood ]

[syncintohell]

[ Firmly: ]

I have no intention of breaking.

[time5kip]

That's great for you, but you're not the only person on this Unit. Having said that ...

[ checking his own phone to get proper records ]

BAD END=DEAD END has the highest amount of points. Heart Soldier Senshi and AlcheME! are tailing behind them. They all stand very high chances to win.

But they're also all among those we don't want to harm, as some of our members have strong connections with them.

[syncintohell]

You misunderstood my question. Shall I repeat it?

[time5kip]

—Ah, you wanted to know the opposite. Which has the lowest amount of points but might still win?

[syncintohell]

Non. Points aside, who is the most damaged that still may yet win?

I wish to know who is in the most need of the reward.