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Who: everyone!
When: day 17, morning
What: GAME TIME

[ today, when the GAMESHOW notification goes off and the phone maps lead you to the game tower, the debris is still everywhere, the lobby is empty, and the elevators are unlabeled. The rules don't appear on your screens until after everyone has filed in, the doors have shut behind you, and the elevators have started up and risen at least a few stories.

your phones light up with instructions at the same time as the elevators all shudder to a stop, and a sharp hissing noise starts up as thin blasts of air enter from the walls and fills the room with a horrible, horrible smell. like straight up sewer rank awful. Luckily you won't have to deal with it for long, since you pass out so fast you won't even remember hitting the ground.

You wake up on the floor of a room with the rest of your unit. Mukuro's face isn't on any screens, but the first thing you might process as you regain consciousness is his boyish voice filling the air, shifting from calmly informative to as energetic as ever. ]

… courtesy of danna's abilities, we have much more exacting control over a much broader range of possibilities. Ah, and the stars of our show have just begun to stir!

Then, let's go over the rules of today's event once more!

[ and then he does show up, waist-up on the large tv-sized screen on the wall, smiling brightly beside a diagram demonstrating different possible outcomes - labeled with T's and B's and X's over "losing" stick figures. ]

Prisoner's dilemma! The max-tension psychological classic, with a secret agent feel~

This one is all about trust and betrayal. Originally, two people would be interrogated separately for information, and told that they would be spared if they turned on their partner. But if both of them kept their mouths shut, then their captors would have less over them and they both could be saved. While if they both betrayed one another, then they would both be punished! For either of them to win, at least one of them would have to take the risk and decide to "trust"~

Today's game is a three-person variant, or rather, a three-unit variant! This means that instead of just one other person, our idols will have to carefully consider the thinking of two whole other groups of people in their decision-making! But like the standard "prisoner's dilemma," only one person each is placed at risk ☆ Just like a sacrifice!

[ briefly, the display switches to images of flower arrangements ]

Additionally, since the idols haven't been told who their partners are, we've provided them with a small means of communication - courtesy of this goryou - for them to find some way to identify themselves, earn the other units' "trust," and get a read on what kinds of people now hold the fate of their unitmate in their hands!

[ and back to Mukuro, a bust shot with the diagram gone now ]

The results this time will be a little more complicated than the original "win/lose" scenario. In this case, even trusting each other won't get a good result. Betraying each other is worse, but only betraying someone who trusts you will save your sacrifice and bring your unit victory~! That's why it's important to convince the other units to "trust" no matter what!

And trusting someone who ends up betraying you - well, wouldn't that be just horrible?

Leeet's go! ♥

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[ Whisky honestly is looking pretty surprised. ]

So we really did get lucky.

I was surprised too, but I'm not against it. How are you feeling? Was the punishment really just getting knocked out for a few seconds?

[ shakes his head, looking at his hand as if to check. ]

It didn't really hurt, and I don't feel any different. But I'm expecting a catch.

Well at least it's not having your tongue cut out.

That's a pretty low bar.

I can go a lot lower than that.

"At least no one died"?

At least no one was tortured for hours? Had every bone in their body broken? Had their head smashed into their stomach?

You should be designing these games.

I'd just make us win automatically.

You're only supporting my point.

Re: ENDGAME

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eatsthecanary - 2018-07-21 07:06 (UTC) - Expand

[OH HIS OTHER MINION

BOUNDS OVER TO JUST, GRAB AT HIS ARM AND TRY SWINGING IT]

Woah, a lucky break for a lucky cat!

[ he could see C coming so it's not like he would be spooked by that normally and it looks like he's about to greet him you know like, regular

but the second C grabs his arm and starts swinging it he jumps and tries to tear his arm back like he's just been shocked ]

--?

[??????????

why no touch this is WHAT I DO????]

Eh? Is something the matter? It's meeee, your fearless leader! I get that this might have been your first tough performance but it wasn't THAT bad.

[ his cat ears are flat and wary ]

-- What did you just do? That hurt.

Eh? Ummm, nothing? Maybe it was static shock--[woah wait when did u get cat ears YOOOO

JUST, REACHING UP TO POKE]

[ he still hasn't exactly determined the source of this so even the little poke has him jolting ]

-- That's not static shock.

. . .

[well he's not BLEEDING like Double D, so that's good. Hm.]

[grabs his arm again!!!]

[ lets him because now he's curious. this is for science

his brows furrow and over a few seconds that sensation seems to get worse and worse and he jerks his arm back again, clutching his chest with his other hand ]

So -- that's the consequence?

[uh]

[it's HARD TO LOOK CONCERNED AND KEEP THIS SMILE UP]

Consequence. . .? I feel like I'm helping and hurting, wow.

You were literally hurting me, every time you touched me.

[ but he shrugs ]

In the end that's not the worst, though. I'm not a touchy-feely sort.

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neigh_sayer - 2018-07-21 15:26 (UTC) - Expand

I'm glad. Are you all alright?

Touching people hurts, but I'm not a very touchy feely person in the first place.

You got the same as Nathan-san?

...It's good if it won't inconvenience you long term, but hopefully it will wear off soon since we all trusted each other.

The old guy seemed to get the same thing as me, yeah. I'm not to worried if it lasts for a bit - - it did seem like we avoided any permanent damage.