~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

[awakenerd]

[Holding. Still.]

Okay.

[syncintohell]

[ Okay cool, Kuzuebiko is slugging him in the face. ]

This does not make us even, but it communicates my distaste. I like to think as a proud human being we are beyond needing to bare fangs and sink claw into each other to communicate! But your actions today showed you had no interest in communication, leaving me with no other ends besides this.

[ and shaking out his hand afterwards ]

[awakenerd]

[He takes the hit, rubbing his face gingerly. He is. Incredibly obviously guilty.]

We messed up. We were trying to avoid this exact outcome and we made it, instead. I know it doesn't mean much, and I know we can't take it back. But this isn't what we wanted. I'm sorry.

It's probably too soon but I know I'm willing to do anything for you to make up for this. Not for forgiveness, just... Until you feel I've worked off what I owe.

[syncintohell]

You speak so presumptuously.

[ Contemptuous: ]

If those are truly your feelings, you ought to have put yourself at risk as I and the hostage of AlcheME! did.

[ He comes in close, his face closing quarters so he takes up most of the pool of his vision ]

To explain is, in of itself, an act of pleading redemption and for sympathy— the desperate hope that you can be vindicated if you are understood. As if you are owed it! You are no victim here! But I will not, and I do not care to understand you. Whatever madness possessed you is not madness I desire to understand, nor madness that I will find forgivable.

[ He takes his collar and fists it in his hand to shake him by it ]

To work it off? What you have done is permanent! If you come to call, I will take your head. It is only due to the fact I cannot make purchases here that it remains on your shoulders!

[ And now he'll push him away, and turn away ]

[awakenerd]

[Just... Snaps.]

You claim to want to be above beasts but you don't even want to understand? We screwed up! You have every right resent me forever! I know I will never be able to do anything to make up for this!

But if I don't offer you our reasons than I'm denying everyone the right to know them, and reject them honestly. We didn't communicate right, we made an error we can't take back. Like hell am I going to keep miscommunicating to compound that mistake.

If I don't explain and don't apologize I do us both further wrong. Beat me up if you want, it's less than I deserve.

I will visit Taisho later. You can do what you want then. But it's not just you I owe, it's everyone who cares for you.

[syncintohell]

[ Over his shoulder: ]

In that case, I have already communicated the consequences. On your own head so be it, in the short time that you are allowed to retain it.

[ And he'll march away now. ]