~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

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[Closing his eyes and having to think.]

Conflict. Caution. Red Tulip. Camelia. Fuck, there was one more. Not that it matters. We messed up big time.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

...that was, ah, too many flowers. Your message probably wasn't, ah, clear enough.

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

No shit.

[Running a hand through his hair.]

Look. Sorry. I'm not trying to be cross with you. And you have a point even...

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

It just, ah, doesn't help, here and now?

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Nope. And since it's permanent, can't even fucking undo it. That's something you can't make even. Doesn't mean we won't try. I don't know Taisho that well though.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

I've only, ah, spoken to some of their members, not all. [pause] ...I hope that they will be more, ah, forgiving than I would be in their shoes.

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Oh. And what would your punishment be?

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[forgottenmercy]

That would, ah, depend on what the consequence for Lucifel, or any of my other unitmates, would have been. [probably kill every single one of you.] But I would certainly, ah, never forgive any of you.

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

You'd have to wait in line. At least let me take out the end boss first.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

...the, ah, what?

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Mukuro and his boss and his boss. All the way up the chain. All of them dead.

Perhaps then I would even ask for forgiveness.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

...maybe, ah, then. Maybe. [yeah even then still no.]

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Well, we all need to have our goals.

[Pausing a moment.]

Why did you come and ask 'why'?

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

Because I, ah, wanted to know.

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Satisfied with the answer?

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

...my unit wasn't, ah, hurt by your unit's choice. I'll, ah, have to be.

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Do you not have people you care about on other units? Enough to be not satisfied at least.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

You made a mistake gambling with the most risky outcome. It's not an answer I'm happy with, but you told what happened. What else could you possibly tell me?

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

There isn't anything else to tell.

You can still be outraged even if it's not your unit. But then it does sound like I'm trying to get you upset with me.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

By satisfied, I meant that I was satisfied that there was nothing else you could tell me.

[he's gone back to dropping the little 'ahs' and other buffer speech.]

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Hnnnn.

You know, I don't quite get you. Your different than most of the people I've met here so far.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

...what do you, ah, mean?

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

It's hard to describe. You're quiet and polite but somehow brutally honest.

Re: ENDGAME

[forgottenmercy]

I don't, ah, usually like to be so brutal. [or honest, really.]

Re: ENDGAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

It's a unique combination is all I'm saying. And your unit takes care of my twin. I'm always grateful for that.