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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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You only really needed a few to convey "trust". And I figured, that some people would save the key flowers for the second round.

This is true. However, it would have been easy for someone to squander too many flowers in one direction or the other, if there had misunderstandings...

[ a thoughtful moment of silence ]

I don't know if I've said so yet, but... I... am very grateful to you all, for trusting us, and for allowing our trust to be honored in turn. I believe that I may have misjudged you.

[ his lips crook, at that ]

It was a gamble, but I'm obviously relieved we didn't get burned for it. I was half expecting us to just be betrayed.

I can hardly blame you for that. I wondered a little myself.

[ after the first game, she wondered if taking leaps of faith of that nature wouldn't screw everything up. but... it all worked out in the end. something to keep in mind in the future.

She reaches out and holds her hand in a still, outstretched fist in the air. ]

... Both you and the blonde boy did that. What is it?

It's for a fist bump. It's a way of sharing victory.

We didn't win.

Perhaps not by our host's standards. But neither you nor Nathan nor Lucifel were permanently harmed. To me, that's a bigger victory than a few measly points.

Then you'll celebrate minimal losses?

In a place like this, where their goal is to make us suffer as much as possible for their enjoyment? We're like the prey that got away.

[ so yes. ]

It seems like you have a low bar to be satisfied there, but I won't argue.

Is it?

[ A bunch of teams just fucked up or got fucked up, but okay. ]

Well, I'm just a girl, so you don't need to pay my silliness any mind.

[ She's still holding her fist out for that bump though. ]

[ he still hasn't fist bumped back you gotta lead him on this one. ]

It's not just you. A bunch of people are okay with losing.

There are plenty of other ways to make points. And it's not like it's even worth that many.

[ okay going to move her fist forward to complete the bump. GENTLY. ]

If you think about it, the ones we're really competing against are the people that are keeping us here. So if I lose to you, or to another team, that doesn't matter in the long run. All that matters is getting out of here.

[ he expects the little jolt of pain so he braces himself for that ]

It's true that in the long run, winning a game nets you surprisingly few games, considering the difference of investment. A live's much easier than the thought of torture and death.

[ At least it's not a handshake or a hug. ]

Easier, and no one has to be hurt or hate you for it.

That doesn't terribly concern me.

Not even if it's your teammate that's hurt? Or you?

It'll concern me if I'm hurt.

[ largely because that would be an inconvenience ]

And if my teammate being hurt means we lost.

You really don't care about the other people on your unit... at all?

[ he tilts his head ]

Should I? It's not like the games require for it.

Well, no... but... usually, you work better with people you like... and it's less lonely, too. Do you really not have any friends here?

[ there's a beat ]

What would you define as a "friend"?

[ as if no one jumps immediately to mind ]

[ listen

she's seen memories with people who have dog heads. Whole dog heads, Whiskers, not just the cutesy kemonomimi like you have. Dog heads, with dog snouts and tongues, talking with human words, wearing a suit, flapping around his middle-aged man hands.

At this point, she's not going to question someone not understanding the definition of the word "friend." ]

Do you mean the general qualities of a friend, or someone I would want to be friends with?

[ Hiryuu has been through a lot ]

Let's go with both. I'll see if I know anyone that would fit.

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