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

(CODE)

Comments

[vivens]

[ gazes. ]

Don't worry about it.

[ except that maybe it might be a good idea because, well, they probably aren't bleeding anymore but that's because of the fire. ]

How does your team plan on moving forward?

[festiverogue]

We pivoted to high-risk, high-reward but I'm really reconsidering a little bit.

[Good grief.]

[vivens]

[ fair tbh? ]

We've also done the high risk for a high reward, however our "reward" is not the one we have been looking for.

[festiverogue]

Can you guys take another hit? How bad are the injuries? It's hard to tell from here.

[vivens]

[ um well. ]

I haven't had time to check and I don't think it would do me any favors if I did.

[ we just accept that they are in pain and need to get out of here now, i guess. ]

As for if we can withstand another trap like the ones we've "fallen" into, it depends on what comes next.

[superstructure]

Do you want to risk it again?

[ Not really offering a suggestion, he just mostly wants to see where Sabo (and the others) are at. ]

[festiverogue]

Fair enough.

[That's the kind of answer Madara would give.]

Consider your options really carefully.

[What he wants to suggest, he won't.]

[kaientai]

Question is whether we get this over with quickly or play it safe, I guess.

[vivens]

Our thinking in the first round was to first test out the severity of the traps for the two step option.

The second was to accept the injury in hopes of moving forward more quickly.

[ sabo doesn't mention how both times ended...since well. you can see. ]

[kaientai]

Yeah, we figured out how it was on the first round too. Ended up just getting lucky on the second; the other team is having the opposite of what you're having, looks like.

[ that's rough, buddy. ]

[vivens]

It's good that they have better luck on their side.

[ and he means this genuinely. ]

[tosa]

We're gonna worry about ya.

(HELLO???)

What did you guys do?

(Like, decisions wise.)

[superstructure]

Two steps, both times in agreement. Neither time worked out.

[tosa]

Seein' as we're the ones that're better off and what's at stake...

(More pain,)

I'm willin' to let you guys decide and we'll do the same.

(To make it hurt less.......)

[festiverogue]

I'm agreeing with Mutsunokami, big time. You guys need a break.

[tosa]

(A good team... MUTSU IS NODDING FASTLY, thank you for agreeing.)

[cheerfuldays]

I agree.

( their choice... but god, what awful luck! )

[tosa]

(THANK, TEAM.)

[kaientai]

That sounds reasonable.

[tosa]

(And with that--)

Then that's it.

(They agree.)

[pr159]

Chose 2 spaces each time, everyone cooperated. Wonderful results, as you can see.

[tosa]

Some luck... but like I said, since we're better off, I wouldn't be opposed to lettin' you guys decide and matching.

[vivens]

We decided to risk things and go for two steps each time except that we haven't been able to move more than a single step each time.

[ and now we're bloody(?) and burned. fun times. ]

...so we should really start to think about how things will go from here on out.

[tosa]

Sometimes it's better to just go one step at a time.

(No shame, really.)

It looks like our team's ready to go with whatever you guys wanna do.

[vivens]

So far, that's the progress we've been making.

[ ALL OF THESE RISKS AND INJURIES FOR WHAT!!! ]

Perhaps we could take a single step for this time.

[ but he do wanna rush things but also the dice hate the xillias and the one pieces. ]