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骸 ([personal profile] ghostofissues) wrote in [community profile] imeeji_frontstage2018-07-20 05:09 pm

~GAME~

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! ♥

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-21 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Kazuebiko...?

[ coming by after speaking to Okami ]
syncintohell: (and know your desires)

[personal profile] syncintohell 2018-07-21 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ If it's later, he's calmed down some though he is clearly still furious, it is just now better contained. He isn't trying to buy an axe, at least. ]

Hiryuu. Your unit made it through fine, I see.
dragonheartedgirl: commissioned from @frottage ; please do not reuse (Oh no you poor thing)

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-21 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Well. An Axeless Kuzuebiko is good, yes. ]

[ What she wants to say is that Nathan is suffering from sort of triggered pain response that makes him feel as though his chest is splitting open. But since it should pass, if they can believe anything that these monsters tell us regarding these punishments, it doesn't feel right to talk about such things. Rather, she'll acquiesce. ]

We were lucky. I'm so sorry things did not work out the same for you all. Okami said you were made to be the prisoner. How are you?
syncintohell: (to those distant imagined heights)

[personal profile] syncintohell 2018-07-22 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thus far, so far as I can tell, I am no worse off.
dragonheartedgirl: credit @dorkwithamask (forced smile)

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-22 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ HONESTLY, given what he's said about his mental health and ability to perceive his own stability, that's. Not as encouraging as it should be. However! She doesn't want to irritate him. And this is definitely not a good place to talk about it. So. Filing it for late. ]

I'm glad to hear that. I was worried for you all.

[ Still is, honestly. ]

... I don't suppose you'd like to leave here? I feel like I could use some fresh air.
syncintohell: (Pilgrims)

[personal profile] syncintohell 2018-07-22 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Correct though, he absolutely won't recognize anything is wrong no matter how obvious it is. ]

I was planning on it, once I see to Ken and Maki. They have both been upset by this turn of events.
dragonheartedgirl: credit @dorkwithamask (can't be helped)

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-22 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ yyyyesss it was definitely hard to miss maki nearly strangling boss. ]

Then let me help you gather them and let's all go together. Would you like something special for dinner? I can order something for you all.

[ she's gonna do it anyway. so. ]
syncintohell: (and know your desires)

[personal profile] syncintohell 2018-07-22 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
Unless it can't be helped, I prefer not to eat. But your help is appreciated in finding the others.

[ Since Iorime is keeping strict watch on him to make sure he doesn't go off and get into a fight with BAD END = DEAD END ]
dragonheartedgirl: (quiet)

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well she can and will do that but ]

You'd prefer not to eat? Why?
dragonheartedgirl: (You want me to what now?)

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-23 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
You... dislike eating? Anything?

[ that. doesn't seem normal. ]

Why?
syncintohell: (to those distant imagined heights)

[personal profile] syncintohell 2018-07-23 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
I've already explained that I do not like it. Why do you like and dislike what you do? Such things are personal preference. I simply find adding unnecessary things to my body to be like poison, sapping at the soul and making me queasy. It may be required to live, but that does not mean I will partake in eating anymore than I must.
Edited 2018-07-23 06:59 (UTC)
dragonheartedgirl: (he said what)

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-23 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ sapping at his soul? making him queasy?

that's ]


Okay. ... We should still find your missing teammates, anyhow...
syncintohell: (Pilgrims)

[personal profile] syncintohell 2018-07-23 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
. . . it seems Maki wishes to have some time to herself. Ken will accompany Iorime and I back to the dorms.

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-07-23 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
All right...

[ she glances briefly in maki's direction. that whole thing was--bad.

she's not sure whether or not she should take that as a dismissal. two people is... well, that's probably good enough to get him home safely? ]


I can still come with you, if you want.

[ at least that gives him an option. ]