~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

[bevoted]

It's different when you can orchestrate that kind of thing directly. When we're isolated like this the only thing you can do is "trust" someone you can't even see. And I don't trust most of the people I've met from your unit. [ so much for not being an ass ]

[shutthefoxup]

They're diamonds in the rough.

[bevoted]

..... one of them shot me in the head and then gloated about how if it had been a real gun he would have murdered me in cold blood.

[shutthefoxup]

...they're actually very cute when you get to know them?

[bevoted]

... another one just constantly shits out of his mouth to piss me off, and the third one was real open about sacrificing other teams to protect Wild City. So sorry if I still don't believe you. [ even if that last point is in fact something he would also do. ]

[shutthefoxup]

......that guy just likes to be wild problematic, but he doesn't actually DO much? It's just...his mouth....

[bevoted]

He poured paint over my head and completely ruined my outfit. [ granted. he had been threatening to punch him. but still. ... ugh. ] Well whatever. I can't complain about WILD CITY being nice for once. ... so thanks.

[shutthefoxup]

He's our wild child...?

Ah, yeah, thanks to you too.

[bevoted]

"Wild child"? [ scoffs ] That's one way to put it. [ still unimpressed. ... but since they're here. ] So far you're the nicest guy I've talked to from your unit. I'm going to guess that you're also the one who called the shots here. Am I wrong?

[shutthefoxup]

At the end of the day it was Whisky's decision. I just voiced my opinion.

[bevoted]

"Whisky"? ..... you mean Whiskers? [ they never properly exchanged names probably he just found the guy's profile so ]

[shutthefoxup]

That's the one. He was on the line, so he was final vote. I don't know why he listened, but he did.

[bevoted]

......... keh. [ he seems. not quite happy about this news for some reason? maybe because now he feels like he's been "proven wrong" somehow. ] Well, when you figure it out let me know.

[shutthefoxup]

Why he listened?

[bevoted]

Yeah. He doesn't seem like the "listening" type. [ or the doing nice things type. ]

[shutthefoxup]

Not sure, but he's not a bad guy.

[bevoted]

... whatever you say. I can't believe that, but I get wanting to stand up for your unitmates. ... even if it doesn't make any sense.

[shutthefoxup]

Thanks.