~GAME~

[ghostofissues]

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! ♥

Comments

Re: ENDGAME

[haktualdragon]

[latest late person.

... those boards sure aren't. great.]

This really seems like it was a shitty game.

[knightceties]

[are you gonna be all weird about avante being a-ok too]

We're fine, at least. It's really a change considering what happened last time we met the guy who ran it.

[haktualdragon]

[man, he's actually kind of relieved his team is fine? actually?

he's just REALLY RELIEVED they weren't pitted against HSS, tbqh.]

Yeah... think people might go easy on us with that in mind?

[knightceties]

Ahahaha, I doubt it. It's not like they told us who we were grouped with.

/2

[haktualdragon]

... yeah, about that.

[haktualdragon]

[gonna grab Ace's lapel a bit to bring him in close.]

If you even suspect it's Heart Soldier Senshi in one of these games and it won't compromise our unit, you pull your punches.

Got it?

[knightceties]

[is he just pulling Ace close or like, yanking him in by the lapels? either way his response is the same though]

Hmm, wouldn't the possibility of that depend on the game? If I made you a promise and had to break it, I think I'd feel pretty bad.

[haktualdragon]

[pulling him in close.]

I'm not asking for a promise, I'm telling you to make the effort. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work--I'll deal with it from there.

[not to say he doesn't think his unit won't make the effort anyway but look. he hasn't. talked about his HSS connections to many people. and THIS GAME IS APPARENTLY REALLY ALARMING.]

[knightceties]

Ahaha, okay, okay. I guess we can add it to the list.

[haktualdragon]

Good.

[ok, you can go free now.]

... congrats on the win, I guess.

[what else do you say in this sort of situation? seems bad.]

[knightceties]

[why is Ace the only one not getting all weird about this excellent outcome for avante???]

Nemesis isn't hurt, so I'm satisfied.

[haktualdragon]

Speaking of, how's she doing? Aside from "unhurt".

[knightceties]

We played the way she wanted, but I don't think it came out the way she wanted it to.

[haktualdragon]

So not doing so great, huh.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Mmm, not having a good time. ]

It was, moreso for some other units than ours.

[haktualdragon]

Think it's shitty all around on principle.

[but after manhandling Ace a bit over personal things not really related to the game, gonna just calmly gesture for Gold to come over.]

[calmthefoxdown]

We 'won', which probably counts for something to someone.

[ ? Walking closer though. ]

[haktualdragon]

[flicking him on the forehead when he's close enough.]

We got 500 points out of it. So if you want to make it up to the other units, you can always waste it on them.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ ???! ]

I was planning to- what was that for?

[haktualdragon]

Felt like it.

[this guy's gonna use those points for abilities and memories tho. no shame here.]

[calmthefoxdown]

You have questionable impulses.

[haktualdragon]

It was either that or ruffling your hair so you could make a face.

[calmthefoxdown]

Please don't.

[haktualdragon]

I feel challenged.

[calmthefoxdown]

No.