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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! ♥

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I guess for some perspective, you're not the most brainless person I've met here.

Flattering.

Well, whether you intended it or not, WILD CITY's optics came off pretty well this time around.

The positive press will be nice for us.

That makes for a change, someone else being the target of everyone's piss and disappointment.

I haven't seen much of the piss and disappointment but I heard we weren't too popular after one game.

[MMM. YEAH...]

Right, that time your unit made a play that got one've my kids' ears sliced off by machines. That'd be it.

Oh, was that it?

[ mild, he doesn't seem overly regretful or shocked by the thought of that.

wait, ]

Are they your children?

[Hmm hmm. Yes, this guy could be trouble.]

...Yeah.

We're family.

As in, you remember being family?

As in, they're family.

[End of story.]

Okay, so you're just calling them that.

[ is the answer he arrives on. ]

A soldier's unit is their second family. But I guess snipers work alone, huh.

I defected, too. So I doubt I attached too much importance to my "family".

I'll keep that in mind.

Does that make me untrustworthy? That I'm not all buddy-buddy with my own unit?

See, most units are grouped together by common characteristics, so we see eye to eye pretty easily. But WILD CITY... just havin' an animal avatar ain't much to go on. A cat doesn't share much with an octopus.

Apart from the fact that they're both intelligent predators.

[ laughs, and he smooths his hair back. ]

Those were animals we were assigned, you realize. For all we know those could all be a giant joke from the producers too.

But you're right, in that it doesn't leave our unit with much in common.

[Do we have the same haircut]

Makes WILD CITY unpredictable. In that way, it's kind of fitting.

[ yes ]

Well, isn't that something that can tie our unit together?

Everyone knows not to get too friendly with wild animals. You didn't bite this time, but that's not always going to be the case.

Your unitmates seem a lot more appreciative than you.

Well, they're kids.

...Kids like t'pet strange animals and feed them treats. Someone has to make sure they don't lose any fingers.

You're really determined on keeping this metaphor going, aren't you?

[ he seems more amused than bothered. ]

Who's to say that I'm not a docile, sweet housecat?

Assuming you weren't assigned that for kicks?

Cats never got domesticated the way dogs did. If they're docile, it's because it serves their purposes. And they're not pack hunters, which seems t'fit you to a tee already.

Being docile seems to have served our purposes here. Who knows, I might stick with that.

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