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

[ignihidden]

... we've been going only one space but w- we can't keep that up forever...

[...]

And we keep getting you regretful guys that are worn out.

[undertakings]

If you'd rather keep going one space, then you can say so.

[Like, he doesn't feel great after that last one, ngl but he gets not everyone is as open to risk as some of them are.]

[ignihidden]

S- so far, two out of the two traps have come from the floor. I was able to escape the last one entirely by being carried.

[There's no proof that it will continue but it does mean he's an undamaged person making the decision]

... so I was thinking it might be time for our group to take some risks.

[undertakings]

[Hm.]

As long as you don't regret it.

[He's not going to knock Idia for making that choice, but if someone's carrying him and gets injured badly... well.]

[magicam]

So you're saying you totally wanna go with the flow with them~?

[High risk, high reward...]

Cay has no objections~

[ignihidden]

It's easier to agree with that than argue about taking one again. We'd be arguing if they wanted one because we need to speed up!

[magicam]

Right, right~ Cay said he super agreed~

[unsinksyourship]

Hmmph, you guys look fresher but you're not getting much of anywhere, are you?!

[Says the guy who failed to move ahead more than one space this time but at least it wasn't zero!!!! Says Tamamori's inner, more annoying Tamamori. Slow and steady wins the race his foot. Ow, his foot.]

I'll have you know we've only been hit once so far!

[... he says, from the ground.]

[vedr]

It... Had not occurred to us... Playing it safe consistently... Too slow...

[ Also on the ground, he took one for Idia and carried him. ]

[unsinksyourship]

You need to get better planning, then! And why are you on the ground too?!

[Just staring across at him like ???? he was too busy being on fire to pay attention to other people being on fire.]

[vedr]

[ He can only agree. ]

I carried a friend over to see if they would get hurt.

If the the floor is your territory... Mm.

[ Gets up, wobbles. ]

[unsinksyourship]

I don't know if I want the floor as my territory. The floor is where traps come from.

[He has a bone to pick with the ground, tbh. Just going to watch as Grimnir wobbles around, though, free entertainment.]