05.50 - week five, saturday

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W5 SATURDAY

True to her word, Lorelei makes an announcement to request that everyone reports to the courtyard at 9am. The announcement is made at 8am, and when characters arrive to the scene, there are walls that have been put up in the courtyard. The walls make cube-shaped rooms in a 6 x 6 formation, and Florence reads off the group assignments before they escort people into their respective rooms.

Lorelei appears on everyone's tablets again to explain the activity.

"Today's assignment will not be involved with the orbs. As I said yesterday, due to the survey results, we have decided to run a team building activity with a trust based exercised built in. Each of you are inside of a room with a panel. They are safe to step on, but I would not suggest tampering with them.

There are six panels ahead of you, and the goal is to make it to the end before time runs out. The way you make it out is by negotiating with another team and deciding whether to cooperate with them, or betray them in your group's best interests. It's structured similarly to the Prisoner's Dilemma."

She will then explain the rules, which consist of the following (all times are IC):

• You will have up to 15 minutes of discussion time with another group paired with yours. You can discuss a strategy, as you decide to either advance one or two spaces up.
  
  • If it's one space, the panels beneath you will activate traps that both groups will have to endure, but the pain will not be as severe.
    
  • If it's two spaces, both groups will have to roll a single number between 1-20 to determine if they can advance pain-free, or take the full extent of the traps' damage while only moving up one space. Unfortunately, the numbers are skewed: Numbers 1-7 will allow groups to advance without injury; 8-20 will result in the latter.
  
  
• After the first round of discussion, there will be an additional 10 minutes in which communication with other groups is cut off. You will have to decide what to do within your own group, though there's a catch.
  
• There is an option to betray the other group and advance yourself two spaces, pain-free and guaranteed, while leaving the other group in place to take their own trap's damage. If both groups choose to betray each other, however, nobody will advance and both parties will be hurt.
  
• After the round is over, groups will rotate and be up against another group.

And...that's that. Lorelei instructs Florence to get ready to begin the activity in five minutes.

OOC NOTE

Hey everyone, welcome to Week 5 Saturday's event. A quick note: We have set up "private conversations" for each group on the mod journal that we have linked to you in your respective chats. These private conversations are meant to be where discussions within your own groups are to be had; this is to allow people to hit the betray button more effectively, should anyone choose to do so. We are going by an honor system here re: peeking at other group convos, so try not to look at other groups' posts.

For every round, everyone will OOCly get 30 minutes for joint discussion, 30 minutes for discussion within your own groups, and 15 minutes to react to the results.

We will have between 4-6 rounds. We will gauge how many rounds are needed based on timing.

FULL NAV

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Comments

TEAM B vs TEAM D

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[ B: Ace, Sabo, Julius, Rideaux
D: Tamamori, Kawase, Herlock, Shin, Chongyun, Xingqiu ]

JOINT DISCUSSION

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[vivens]

[ WELL. our legs aren't broken probably but.... wow isn't it nice that they're with people who were unscathed? kind of... well it's a weird feeling.

do not mind the blood, thank you. ]

Seems like you all made it out okay.

[undertakings]

We just got lucky.

[Otherwise they would be in the same predicament...]

[herlocksholmes]

It's unlikely we will hold this luck for much longer.

[To think such bloody injuries are the prize for losing...my, the situation isn't very great]

[superstructure]

[ join us in the messed up shins club, lads ]

What were your plans for moving forward from the last round?

[undertakings]

They were able to treat Chongyun and Eiichi last week, so at least they should be able to get treatment after this.

[not ideal but eh.]

[vivens]

And we were terribly unlucky.

[ this, unfortunately, factors into a lot of things. ]

[pr159]

[ SIGHS DEEPLY ]

[vivens]

[ JOINS WITH. ]

[fabulation]

[ ...#yikes. That looks...pretty bad, actually. ]

With cooperation on both ends, yes.

[vivens]

[ somehow...we are all making due. ]

Obviously, we don't intend to do anything to worsen our situation however I'm still inclined to work cooperate.

[iubar]

That's the key part of it.

[ yeah, the leg sure isn't feeling great here. ]

[superstructure]

As was ours, but we took a risk going further ahead.

[ Just kind of grimaces at the double leg pain going on. ]

So regardless, we're looking at mitigation at this point.

[cloudalike]

[ Uh... in the process of taking off his shirt to rip it up for bandage strips.......................... ]

While I am worried they may amend the rules to turn up the heat, as of now there doesn't seem to be any less benefit to cooperate. Betraying may seem tempting, but all groups have an equal chance at escaping this with minimal pain. If you hit betray... the consequences after the conclusion of this experiment will surely be felt.

[ In other words: friendships broken, trust broken etc. ]

[iubar]

You've got a point there. Their rules, they can do what they want.

[ well, that's a fun thought. ]

[cloudalike]

Yes, if they were to add that only one team can escape and all the other teams will be punished with more injury or worse...

[ Passing Ace some strips if he doesn't have any yet... ]

[vivens]

[ sabo will try to stop him from ripping up his shirt for that?? it's well appreciated but sir!! your clothes!!! ]

I'm fairly certain they're very interested in seeing who would opt into the less savory option that supposedly guarantees success than the alternative.

[cloudalike]

[ TOO LATE, he is a man of action not fashion. Have some strips. ]

Cooperating three times and moving two spaces each time seems more consistent, even with the risk of injury.

RESULTS

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[superstructure]

Two steps!

cw burns, fire

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[Two steps forward it is! Or that's what they're hoping for, when they decide to cooperate with each other. Unfortunately, a 17 was rolled.

The panel slides open, and it is hot. This is because the panel was holding back flames, of course. The flames shoot up from the ground, only about as high as someone's knee - not enough to encase someone entirely, but there's a high risk for clothes and hair catching fire. It's definitely enough to leave excruciating burns behind, so it's best to leave this room as quickly as possible.

But because of the luck of the draw, you can only progress one space.]

[cloudalike]

[ Ugh, his biggest weakness... His pants are on fire, but no bridges burnt today, thank goodness!!!!!!!!!!!]

[iubar]

[ well, his profile did say he's good at setting himself on fire. that's good, i guess?

(except this is not good at all.)

this is not how he wanted to be reunited with his fire bestie at all. ]

[vivens]

[ there is some fucking irony here about sabo and fire and just. all of this.

BRUH. ]