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.

FULL NAV

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Comments

[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]

[but he's already a messed up shin--]

Shouldn't we be asking you that...? You were hit with the penalty.

[pr159]

Everyone agreed on two spaces. Worked out great.

[undertakings]

Is that still your plan for this round?

[Or are they gonna start wanting to inch along with 1 space only?]

[vivens]

I'll defer to what the majority seems to want. Hopefully we are not split.

[ looks around and is fully aware that group d has the majority... ]

[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.]

[iubar]

Sounds like you might want to keep gambling.

[ he's not weighing in if that's good or bad. ]

[undertakings]

The faster we end this, the faster people can get treatment... There's no choice without risk, so we might as well go for the option that's guaranteed to give us some sort of gain. At least we'll still manage to advance one step with cooperation, even if luck is against us.

[iubar]

Sure, that's a good argument. Not sure what I think, though.

[ his eyes do shift to sabo for the moment. it is a big risk they're taking. but it could be worth it. ]

[pr159]

I won't object to getting through this faster, I suppose.

[vivens]

Fortunately. I'm not too keen to seeing where their limits lie—if there are any.

[ you know, just saying. ]

[undertakings]

I don't believe any of us are. But at the least, they probably don't want us dead at this point.

[unless they're truly so incompetent that they miscalculated how fatal these traps are?!]

[vivens]

"Probably".

[ sorry, he's gotta have a laugh at that, but once it's over... yes, he sees that look from ace. ]

They have invested quite a bit of resources and time into us.

[undertakings]

There are easier ways to kill us if that's what they wanted.

[he's not writing off the possibility entirely, but this is pretty roundabout to him. although the fact that they're all playing along anyways still says... something.]

[vivens]

[ there's probably a name for this kind of reaction to this kind of experiment but that's something detailed in the real world and not the one piece world.... ]

Unless they like this kind of thing.

[unsinksyourship]

[Just sort of squinting at the injuries with a look like he's about to wade into a pool of alligators...]

Mmm, it really was luck?

[He still doesn't have a good grasp of the mechanics, F.]

Are they trying to make teams crawl to the end?! That damn Laurel.