FOUL TOXINS

[lovestained]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 498

[ Welcome to the Game Tower! On the screen is The Red Sea Witch, who does a curtsy before speaking to the audience: ]

Gyahaha, hello! ✩ Today's show is a game long-time viewers might recognize! The rules are simple: poison others and don't get poisoned! Have fun~✩


RULES | ROOMS | EFFECTS | ENDGAME + WINNERS

Comments

Re: ENDGAME

[outofoffice]

Mmm, well . . . for many, saying and doing are different things. You can say "I may end up hitting you in a game," but when it actually comes time to pull the trigger, it's easy to balk and walk back your own determination.

[ Is he guilty of this? MAYBE. ]

Are they wrong for doing so? Are you wrong for not doing so?

It doesn't really matter. All of these choices are contrived, and barely real choices at all. Designed to leave you just enough agency to feel guilt in the weight of your selections, but not enough to actually give any real freedom of choice.

Re: ENDGAME

[at_heart]

[ That first one is an easy 'no', the second is... well, it's not usually part of why he feels like a crappy person. Eventually, he chuckles. ]

Pretty sure it still would've helped if I'd talked to her about this at all. But — yeah. That's where I am with it. Far as I can see, choosing not to take it personally when someone targets us is about the only real, uncoerced choice we've got here.

[ ...And, ]

Besides, I made a promise.

Re: ENDGAME

[outofoffice]

A promise . . . ?

Re: ENDGAME

[at_heart]

...When I first got here.

I guess we had a reputation for being — soft? For sacrificing ourselves to avoid hurting anyone else?

[ He gives a very tight shrug. Reputations are relative, he's learned that the hard way. ]

Promised I wouldn't let us lie down in front of the bus anymore if I could help it.