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

[escardos]

Two steps!

cw electrocution

[afflictionmods]

[These two teams are risking it all, and one team is trusting the other to cooperate...

But that's not how it's going to go, because Group F decides to betray Group A.

While Group F are able to move forward, Fai, Hien, Marcus, and Phantom will find themselves paralyzed - quite literally, as electricity surges through their bodies. All of their muscles cramp up and it's excruciatingly painful - it's not enough to stop their hearts, but it lasts for several seconds and is absolute misery.

Group F can move forward two spaces, while Group A stays in place.]

Re: cw electrocution

[selfconcept]

[ Hien feels no pain due to the gauze bandage, but he just stays there on the ground, watching the other group go.

He's so glad he put the gauze on in time for this round. What the shit. ]

[sicklysweet]

You really should have known better.

[owen's probably going to die, but. worth it.]

[partymagician]

Hien, kill him.

[sicklysweet]

I look forward to him trying!

[partymagician]

And I look forward to holding a cookie out of reach from you.

[ He's joking. Maybe. ]

[sicklysweet]

Now that's just cruel.

[He says, about to (maybe?) get hit by a raining knife.]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien can finally move. He usually doesn't care for this consequence, but this is Owen. He's pissed. He lobs a knife to fly over the walls so that it can drop straight onto Owen. (Lav can pick where it hurts him, if he gets nicked) ]

[sicklysweet]

[Dodged! The knife lands right in front of Owen, who looks. Horribly pleased.]

Next time you try to hurt me, just get up close and personal, okay?

[selfconcept]

[ He'd yell at Owen if his voice box wasn't toasted but here he is ]

[escardos]

Can you stop talking about your kinks for one bloody second?! Let's go!

[partymagician]

Don't make it weird, Owen, or else you really won't get another cookie from me.

[mirrite]

Not if I get to him first...

[exofractured]

Any weapon I get my hands on here is at your disposal.

[partymagician]

Let's just focus on getting through this game for now.

[ Says the one who told Hien to kill Owen. But he honestly thought Hien would do that anyway, so. ]

[mirrite]

Thanks...

[Whoo yeah he's not doing so hot right now.]

[escardos]

[ well, that sure looks like it hurts. in the back of his head, flat can't help but feel just a little bit of pity for team a as they're struck down by lightning.

but as he's moving away, he waves his hand towards them. ]

Sorry about that, everyone! We just wanted to win and I can't manipulate things in here. Good luck!

[totaltrashfire]

[Somehow that was even more terrible than she anticipated but at least he tried.]

[escardos]

[ he sees absolutely nothing wrong with his apology ]

[totaltrashfire]

[She'd say something but it seems like knives are being thrown now so you know what she's just gonna back the fuck up.]

[escardos]

[ big fucking mood girl, knife fights are Not in his area of expertise ]

[partymagician]

I understand... get out of here while you can.

[ Apologies go a long way!!! ]

[escardos]

Take care! I'll be rooting for you!

[partymagician]

You take care too.

[ AT LEAST SOME PEOPLE ARE UNHARMED... ]