~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

[calmthefoxdown]

I'll take a note not to use flowers as a communication method in the future.

We thought your second set of flowers was saying you'd also play betray.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That was the plan.

It got vetoed at the last minute.

[Or maybe future is now is just REAL bad at communication]

[calmthefoxdown]

[ o thank god we're not completely terrible at flower reading. ]

Was there anything about our second set that gave you guys reason to change your minds, or was the switch because of different motives?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Your second set was somehow even stupider than the first. What the fuck was talkative about?

They'd have to make sense first before we factored them in to any decision making.

[calmthefoxdown]

... We were trying to be assholes back to you guys since that seemed your style of humor, given your first set.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Congratulations. You were assholes.

[calmthefoxdown]

Yeah. We were.

We didn't convey our intentions clearly enough.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

For fuck's sake, stop moping.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ jfklsf startled out of his thoughts. ]

-I'm not moping.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You were thinking something stupid.

[calmthefoxdown]

I wasn't.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'll be the judge of that.

Spit it out.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ :T ]

I was thinking over what and how things could have gone differently.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Would you have played different if you knew who the partner units were?

[calmthefoxdown]

... No, I don't think so. We were playing based upon interpretation of how the other teams were trying to play, and according to you, we did interpret your original intent correctly.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then why re-hash a decision you wouldn't change?

[calmthefoxdown]

Because it's probably not the last time we'll have to make a decision like that. Remembering the effects on other units and on our own, and what the potentials were, are what will play into our decisions next time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The game's designed to fuck with you. Don't put too much stock into how much perceived control you have over things.

[calmthefoxdown]

Maybe not over the games, but we did have some over-

[ ... Honestly not sure he should be talking about this with another team. ]

- Over other things.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Over what?

[calmthefoxdown]

Over things outside the game.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. I figured as much. If you want to be cryptic, fine. Whatever.

[calmthefoxdown]

I'm not trying to be cryptic, I'm unsure if this is something I want to talk over with another unit before my own.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Don't get too attached to those unit lines. That's just one more way the producers are controlling us.

[calmthefoxdown]

I'll bear that in mind, but for the time, my actions and words during a game reflect back on my unit, not on everyone here.