05.50 - week five, saturday

[afflictionmods]

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.

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JOINT DISCUSSION

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[ignihidden]

[oh hey you guys also got fashionable leg accessories and are kind of carefully pulling them off]

[while this is all very serious and they have to start discussing their options there is one very important thing to do first]

M'lord Static! [wave wave from the Group C square]

[selfconcept]

[ Idia....... Hien is sitting at the moment. The floor sure is a bloody mess.

He waves back anyway. ]

[ignihidden]

[... wait, that is a lot more blood than they have-]

Were you betrayed, my lord?!

[selfconcept]

No, we just got bad luck, it looks like.

[ Yeah. It's fine. Getting a nat 20 when it sucks is definitely how their luck goes. ]

Do you guys have a suggestion on what to do?

[ignihidden]

U- U- Um... [bad luck, so, the roll of a dice]

We just both w- went one space. So, this happened to us. It didn't feel great but looking over there, um... hm... this sucks...

[partymagician]

[ Don't mind him collapsing right against Hien. ]

How are all of you faring? It looked painful, but not quite as bad.

[catarou]

It is... tolerable. I'm more concerned about you.

[magicam]

We're... fine?

[GLANCING AROUND AT THE GROUP?? Look, comparatively, they're okay. It was only space one, though...]

Totally better off than you guys, it looks like, though...

[ignihidden]

[ah! wave for fai, too, although smaller and more shy]

Fai, l- listen to this! They did that to M'lady Shizuku's legs, too! What if the injury gets worse?! An idol that can't dance- w- well, I'll support her no matter what but it would be like crushing my hands!

[panic incoming]





O- Oh no, do you think- I need my hands-!!

[selfconcept]

We tried to go two spaces, but luck didn't work out, so we ended up going only one and... this.

[ Severe shin chomp. ]

If you guys have great ideas, I'd like to hear them.

[ignihidden]

Ah, well, there's some things that are the same... guaranteed one or gamble on two...

[he makes a sulky expression]

If M'lord Hien wanted to, I would roll the dice b- but, wagering my body is kind of...

[This isn't just a game or where he's losing money on the hopes of getting a PNG...]

[vedr]

One space? Pain is guaranteed, but it's less than what happens if you're unlucky...

[ tosses his removed bear trap over his shoulder. ]

[mirrite]

[YEAH WOW THAT KIND OF SUCKED let's not do that again!!

Don't mind him sitting down for a few here because damn, this hurts.]

Okay, I think we can safely call that a bad idea.

[partymagician]

Still, there's a chance we could escape unscathed...

[ Judging by those two groups who went two spaces without any injury... ]

[mirrite]

Yeah, but do you really wanna take the chance of this happening again?

[Because he's... definitely not sure he does.]

[partymagician]

I can usually handle a lot, but...

[ He honestly feels almost ill, even though the pain is gone now that he's got the bandage on. ]

Perhaps we should take the safer route going forward.

[mirrite]

[Marcus at least is used to pain, but this is still a lot even for him.]

... but this isn't my idea of fun.

[Yeah, he's most decidedly looking a little pale here.]

I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one.

[exofractured]

And who could have expected that, when the odds were only two to one against us.

[He's still able to be snarky while he has the sweater on, but he's also checking on Marcus.]

[mirrite]

[HE'S DOING FINE... mostly. Okay actually he's not feeling that great, but he's going to just be shrugging it off for the time being.]

So that's three in favor of not doing it again, got it.

[selfconcept]

Sure.

[ Hien would have went either way, since he can handle it. So take your fourth vote. ]

[partymagician]

[ He's kind of relieved Hien is fine with that... Fai just slumps against him. ]

[selfconcept]

[ He can be reasonable... if he's with a group, anyway. He gives him gentle pats on the back. ]

[exofractured]

I have some gauze with me. We may wish to wait to see where we need it most.

[But yeah, that's not looking good. Phantom is trying to look offhand about it and failing very badly.]

[mirrite]

Save it. I'm fine for now.

[He's really not, but.]