theafflicted | 05.50 - week five, saturday

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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Hello injured team, here's a team who is totally fine. Sorry. ]

We were braced to endure the pain of risk last round and it didn't happen - so personally, I would vote to risk it and possibly advance two panels again rather than accept the guaranteed amount of pain.

... it still looks nasty after all.

( hey besties, we're goin through it. )

It certainly isn't the funnest.

( i can't believe the weekly team 11 saturday serious date is gonna involve the medical room this time. i can't believe it didn't happen sooner. )

So the gamble did work out for you... maybe we played it a little too safe last time.

It was worth it to find out, I think. Now we know what we're up against.

[It's just science.]

I'd rather deal with a known quantity, but I'm willing to risk two.

[ it's just a little blood it's fine. ]

If we do go for the risk then it should be a unanimous decision, in my opinion. Don't drag anyone down that road unless they're willing.

( lil nod! )

You know, you're probably going to be tougher than the rest of us because my sisters always were.

[ he's trying to be encouraging! ]

But don't feel like you have to do anything you don't want to. Mutsu and I are just used to getting into fights.

I don't want to get bear trapped again.

( is... is she making a joke? i can't tell either.

but she shakes her head, leaning against madara. )

Even if the odds are skewed a little, I think the risk could be worth it... But I also agree that everyone should agree on this.

Mm. And we should probably take the bigger risks early. And as much as I hate to say it, maybe knowing what the upper levels might look like might be a good idea. Hopefully, we never have to find out...

[ but that's the thing about luck. hate to see it. ]

Well, that is an easy call for our side to make - we have already resolved ourselves to it in the last round and our own physical condition did not change in-between.