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

[cloudalike]

[ Half-rolls, half-staggers in after Tama. He is also one with the ground. His shirt and pants are ???????? This Is Fine. ]

Cooperation........... T-two spaces..................

[fabulation]

We did the best we could.

[ Xingqiu is still. Keeping an eye on Chongyun and everything, It's Fine.

When it's time, he'll like help him up and let himself be used as leverage to move along when they move forward again. ]

But, yes, that is our general aim, even so.

[unsinksyourship]

You sure we wanna go for two spaces after that?!

[Just sort of. Wincing and checking himself over burns-wise now that they've got a moment; RIP his ankles and probably his hands trying to put things out and his hair is a lost cause anyway. Mostly his ankles, though.]

Maybe this was better than the traps, though...

[At least his clothes are disposable. As always. Modern fashion....... is great for constantly throwing away!]

[cloudalike]

Y-yes.

[ He REFUSES to be KO'd by this heat,,, but he's not looking good, fam. He's flushed and sweating up a storm, but it's fine it's fine. He's gonna work on controlling his breathing for now. The pain is nothing! Nothing!! ]

No change.

[unsinksyourship]

How am I supposed to do anything if you young ones keep upping the ante!! Stop it!!

[That's muffled by him turning around and yelling into the dirt, though. He's in his natural habitat, which listens to him more. It's fine. Rolls back over loudly.]

We've got to be halfway there...

[cloudalike]

[ Woah living on a prayer!! Actually though - ]

I-I can't stop!!

[unsinksyourship]

What do you mean you can't stop, are you turning into a gambling addict?! That's not a good life lesson to learn here!!

[undertakings]

I don't have any objections. My opinion hasn't changed from last time.

[Fire is pretty bad, honestly yeah, he preferred this over the bear traps.]

[unsinksyourship]

YOU STOP IT TOO.

[To the dirt. Again. If he talks to the dirt nobody can hear him whining.]

At least two more until it's over... ugh.

[Sounds like he's just dramatically expiring here but don't mind him.]

[undertakings]

[He can hear him, but you know what he's not gonna comment on that!!]

If it bothers you that much, you can ask someone to carry you.

[Tamamori is probably the only one small enough for that, honestly.]

[unsinksyourship]

[Yes best not to comment on his inner voice leaking out or he'll keep doing it--]

At least one of us should make it out of this in shape to get help later! You're not wrong.

[Is he really the shortest one here.]

[undertakings]

[I'm assuming he is?! Shin and Kawase are the same height, Sholmes is the tallest and I'm not sure what the Genshins are but I assume they're not 5'3".]

You're also the shortest.

[just going to be blunt about that uwu]

[unsinksyourship]

[He would kick you in the shin if that wouldn't hurt him more than it would hurt you. Theoretically..... Tamamori puffs up his cheeks and instead throws some dirt.]

I'm not that much shorter. I'll have you know most of my weight is my brain, too!!

[No, it's not.]

[undertakings]

[Okay, the dirt is going to be sidestepped because he doesn't want to get that in his eyes thx!!]

If that were the case, you would be dead right now.

[Either that or Tamamori's true form is actually just Frog Man: balloon version.]

[unsinksyourship]

Why am I dying in this scenario?! Do you have something against shorter people??!?

[Throws more dirt at him because what. Why. What kind of harassment is this.]

[undertakings]

No. But it wouldn't be possible for your brain to be heavier than the rest of your organs. Otherwise, your body wouldn't function properly.

[Moving away from more of that dirt wow!! He's just being honest!!]

[unsinksyourship]

It's a metaphor?? Obviously. Sort of.

[We have no idea what sort of metaphor it's supposed to be. Honesty is not always the best policy, but it's fine.]

[undertakings]

[Dubious look...]

Choose a better metaphor, then.

[teidaisei]

[ Despite him being entirely himself downthread, Kawase quickly presses his hand against Tamamori's forehead, and then ruffles his hair. He says nothing, since it's more fun this way. ]

[unsinksyourship]

[Mumbles and automatically swats at him, though it's more lazily because he used like all of his energy up getting out of there?! (Okay, it's not all but look this is practically the equivalent of a P.E. class for him.)


Also you probably have some soot on your hand now.]

[teidaisei]

[ That's fine, it's Tamamori soot. ]

[unsinksyourship]

[You are so weird, you fakey mcfakewaffle germaphobe.]

[herlocksholmes]

Indeed, cooperation continues being our best choice.