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

[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. ]

[exofractured]

Well, I'm clearly not getting any weapons in here.

[partymagician]

Seems like Hien did, at least...

[selfconcept]

[ He just lowly growls and it sounds even more demonic because his voice box is toasted.

He has more knives. ]

[partymagician]

[ Pats Hien's head like a puppy... ]

I'm sure you would have done that regardless of my saying something, hmm?

[selfconcept]

[ He would have honestly held back, but like. Fai gave him permission?? Of course he'd take it. ]

[partymagician]

[ ...He sees the look on Hien's face. ]

You really would have held back?

[ WELL. It's fine. No one got hurt. ]

[selfconcept]

[ Hmph.

Hien just tries to drag Fai so that he can sit upright. ]

[partymagician]

[ Sitting upright now... and also reassessing his power???? ]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien is resilient even if he looks like a twink. It's fine. This is unfortunately, his best trait, and this is why he can endure. It's just better this time because there's no pain involved due to the gauze.

Also everyone smells crispy. ]

[partymagician]

[ The most resilient twink. ]

You're so strong...

[ And Fai is so out of it. ]

I'll keep in mind not to set you on someone next time. I didn't think you'd actually hold back otherwise.

[selfconcept]

[ Hien gives Fai a slightly dubious look but then ruffles his... hair. Oh no. If Fai's hair is no longer silky and smooth even after a shower, Hien is going to absolutely murder someone. ]

[mirrite]

Thanks...

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

[exofractured]

[You know what, he's had no luck with the others. He is absolutely going to try to jam the sweater over Marcus's head now.

He's angry, don't try him.]

[mirrite]

[He'll allow it, if only because he can't really move much at the moment...]

[exofractured]

[GOOD.

Then Phantom can just flop down next to Marcus once his one goal is achieved. He's done it, this was a win(?).]

[selfconcept]

[ Since Hien could move enough to throw a knife, he crawls over to Marcus and fucking slaps his leg with the gauze bandage. ]

[mirrite]

[WHY ARE ALL OF YOU LIKE THIS]

[selfconcept]

[ YOU'RE NOT OUR TANK HERE ]

[mirrite]

[THAT'S HIS JOB IN CANON, TOO BAD]