BAD END=DEAD END

[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

Round 1

[idolpro]

HAND

[idolpro]

[ Touching one of the mahjong tiles will bring up a textbox underneath it with a brief description of the attack associated with the tile. Your starting hand is this: ]

2 bamboo (insatiable hunger)

9 bamboo (whole unit death)

2 characters (irrepressible crying)

6 bamboo (losing a finger)

TRADE

[idolpro]

[ Units may touch the TRADE button on the screen to place their hand up for trade. Please submit trade requests by 3:30PM PST at the latest to give everyone time to discuss their new hand, and consider a tile from your starting hand as a backup in case another unit is not available to exchange. Trade availability cannot be retracted. ]

TURN IN

[idolpro]

[ Please reply here with both your tile choice and your three choices for target unit. Turn-in is due at 4PM PST. ]

Re: TURN IN

[rollwithdisadvantage]

2 characters (irrepressible crying)

1st - sensitIV, 2nd - future is now, 3rd - ☆ZRAEL

RESULTS

[ghostofissues]

[ A few metal panels open up, and metal appendages appear from behind them, most with gripping rubber on the ends, which shooting towards the closest person to hold their head in a vice grip, while the small circular chainsaw attached to the last one moves in and whirs loudly next to the person's ear as it cuts through the base, cleanly slicing through until the whole things comes off. Another metal pincer catches it and takes it with it as the mechanical arms all retreat back behind the panels, which close behind them. ]

Re: RESULTS

[grandschemed]

[ jesus fucking christ

he's dealt with a lot of pain already but it's not the same, a fight versus having his ear actually sawed off -- he can't stop from a brief shout of pain as it starts slicing before he strangles the noise down into heaving, strained breathing as the ear gets picked and after his head's let go he's falling to a knee, cupping the bloody ear-less side of his head. ]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Holy shit.

[Ripping up the sleeve of his shirt as a makeshift bandage and giving it to Oni. Or putting it on the bleeding side of his head. Whichever looks least painful.]

Re: RESULTS

[criminaljustice]

[WELL THAT STRAIGHT UP HORRIFYING]

Oni!

[gonna rush over to and oh jeez they don't have any supplies for this, TME TO USE USELESSLY TORN FOR AESTHETICS JACKET AS SOMETHING TO TRY TO STOP THE BLEEDING I GUESS?!]

Round 1 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[criminaljustice]

[someone couldn't resist going AND UH. THIS HAND.]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

That escalated.

[criminaljustice]

[THANKS FOR THE UNDERSTATEMENT, NINE-NINE

folks, Boss is Shook.]

... we're not playing that.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[grandschemed]

--


Well, fuck.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[criminaljustice]

[yikes yikes yikes]

... how many do you think got one on the first round?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[grandschemed]

I don't even wanna think about it.

[ but that runs into issue of, they really have to. ]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Time to see the results of that heart to heart gathering we had.

Round 2

[idolpro]

HAND

[idolpro]

[ Touching one of the mahjong tiles will bring up a textbox underneath it with a brief description of the attack associated with the tile. Your starting hand is this: ]

3 dots (unable to lie for 3 days)

4 characters (blindness)

9 bamboo (whole unit death)

6 bamboo (losing a finger)

TRADE

[idolpro]

[ Please submit trade requests by 5PM PST at the latest to give everyone time to discuss their new hand, and consider a tile from your starting hand as a backup in case another unit is not available to exchange. Trade availability cannot be retracted. ]

TURN IN

[idolpro]

[ Please reply here with both your tile choice and your three choices for target unit. Turn-in is due at 5:30PM PST. ]

Re: TURN IN

[rollwithdisadvantage]

3 dots (unable to lie for 3 days)

1st - Future is now
2nd - Wild City
3rd - ☆ZRAEL

Round 2 Discussion

[idolpro]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Guess I stand corrected.

We have some options.

We can bet a 3 going through to attempt to find out who did this. Though there is a chance it won't even make the list.

Or we raise the stakes to a 4 or 6 in order to protect ourselves? If we want to go the kinder option, blindness at least has a limit of a day.

I don't think 9 is on the table, but do tell me if I'm incorrect.

[criminaljustice]

9 is never on the table.

[probably didn't mean to snap but ALSO]

And there's no guarantee going higher will work to spare us, either. Are we really going to be playing their game here? Escalate when desperate?