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

[toyger]

[Hmm... Amity goes over to take Honey's hand, squeezing the fingers.]

Yeah, it is. But hey, don't look so sad.

It isn't like I want anyone to be hurt, actually, I just... no one person can save everyone, and it wouldn't mean anything to get angry at everyone who hurts anyone.

I can't know why people hurt each other, it could be complicated, but I know enough to say that you haven't done anything worthy of being poisoned.

Re: ENDGAME

[paradiseunboxed]

...Doesn't that imply that there are people worthy of being poisoned?

...That doesn't seem right.

...Everyone was forced to play that game. Even if they chose to poison another, it was because they were choosing what they thought was best from a constrained set of options...

...Not because they truly chose to make other people suffer.

Re: ENDGAME

[toyger]

Well, in a perfect world you're right, and it'd be easy to paint it all with black or white- these people deserve it and these people don't, or no one deserves it. But life is kinda complicated and has a lotta nuance that way, you know? Some people are nicer, more innocent, more kind, more naïve, even. And some people are maybe not evil, but certainly less kind, less giving, maybe shades of cruel, maybe just very selfish or thoughtless. And so there will always be "better" or "worse" targets.

I just hate that it usually shakes out that the kinder people are punished for their kindness and those who are more selfish are rewarded for it.

But I guess that's the point, huh? Of games like this. It's to punish people who are nice and reward people who aren't, usually. Still, it would be nice if it could shake out that nice people like you would be rewarded for it, and selfish little jerks like me could get punished for it.

[SIGHS.]

I guess also since we have whole teams, it's really impossible though. There's a mix everywhere.

Re: ENDGAME

[paradiseunboxed]

...I don't think you're a selfish little jerk, Amity-kun.

...Or rather, I don't think being a selfish little jerk is something that deserves punished.

...You and your unit acted to keep yourselves safe. That may be selfish, but it's a rational course of action and a rational desire.

...Rather than condemn you for it, I wish that it had not been necessary for you to be selfish little jerks.

...If only such a world were possible.

Re: ENDGAME

[toyger]

...

[Amity reaches out to pat Honey.]

Oh Honey... Of course such a world is possible. Not right here and right now, but it IS possible, and we'll get there eventually. But right now we've got to live in the world we have, not the world we want.