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

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?

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...

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

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

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

I think... we'll manage.

[ He's got bandages on now, so he's... sort of fine? ]

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...

I wonder if the trap is the same, only more intense if you happen to get unlucky with the riskier choice...

[ He sighs. ]

At least you're relatively alright.

... That appears to be the case, yes.

It's troubling that the "less intense" punishment is still... well. This.

And who's to say it won't be worse on the next round...

[ And all they can do is see and find out! ]

That seems like the kind of trick they'd pull...

[Mirrored sigh!]

Yeah, for now, but... Will you guys be able to hold up like this?

I have no doubts about Hien, but...

[ Fai doesn't know if he can strongarm his way through this. ]

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[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-!!

Deep breaths, Idia.

[ He can at least manage to say that calmly right now!! ]

I'm worried the injuries will get worse as well. It might be better to manage our risk from now on.

[weeeeeeee~h]

... w- well... we only have one step of d- data but... right now o-our only assumption is that traps come from the floor...

I wish my magic worked...

I hate to say it, but it looks like we won't know what the patterns are until we press forward...

[ How unfortunate... ]

I wish my magic worked as well.

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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.

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...]

I'm not gonna make you gamble on something you don't want to. Just talk it out with your team. I'm fine with handling more.

[ Unfortunately this stuff isn't new to Hien, so he'll be fine. Maybe. ]

Please understand, I- I won't betray you, M'lord Static!

[he pumps his fists]

[ you're a good boy idia though he won't fault him if his team decides to betray anyway

He doesn't take things personally with things like this. It's a group effort.

So he gives him a hand gesture that acknowledges him ]