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

[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. ]

[selfconcept]

But at the same time, you need to eventually go two spaces at least once if you wanna make it on time.

[partymagician]

[ He hates that Hien has a point... ]

Are you thinking that we should get it over with now?

[selfconcept]

Our team decided 1, didn't we? We'll just have to wait for the other team.

[partymagician]

[ A deep breath. ]

Right.

[ Round two and he's already out of sorts... ]

[selfconcept]

[ Deep breaths, Fai... ]

[ignihidden]

... Eh, so, one successful gamble or one betrayal?...

[selfconcept]

If you think of it that way, it's easy to choose what's in your best interest, isn't it?

[vedr]

Ah... That is correct! So we have to make that risk at least once. And for it to succeed.

[ betrayal isn't in grimnir's vocabulary... ]

[selfconcept]

... Yeah.

[ Grimnir is a good person. Almost painfully so. Therefore, Hien won't argue on the prospective betrayal. ]

I wouldn't mind risking again, but my team already decided to go one space.

[mirrite]

If we need to, I'm fine with going two again. But--

[He casts a glance back at Phantom. Squishy mage, enough said.]

[partymagician]

I'll go two again if we need to as well.

[ He'll put that out there, at least. ]

[selfconcept]

I'll go with whatever you guys decide. I can handle whatever.

[vedr]

Understood. Please then, rest for a little bit!

[ grinnamon roll. too pure... ]

[mirrite]

... damn, you're right. So that means our choice the last round might as well have been for nothing.

[vedr]

Please don't feel too discouraged! You took a risk for good reason.

[mirrite]

I'm not worried about me. I just don't want to put the rest of my group through anything we don't have to go through.

[vedr]

[ Nods. ]

If they agree, then it should be okay in the end, risk or not. I don't think people feel too pressured about being forced to undertake either for progress.

[mirrite]

I sure hope not.

[His partner is a noodle, he is not built for this...]