Experiment 10 - Gamma

[testingphase]

[ The elevators do not take you up to your living area. Rather, they take you DOWN, to a small room with three white walls, and one that is a thick, translucent plastic. There appears to be a chute of some sort behind the plastic wall. ]

Now, in order to determine how well you know each other, we're going to see which teams are the most popular. The rules are simple:

* At the end of the test, each team will suffer an attack. Each attack will kill about half of everyone present.
* You may choose one team (other than your own) to defend from this attack. A team that is defended will not be harmed.
* If you wish to defend yourself instead of another team, you must choose a team to attack.
* You may not refuse to choose.

Comments

[bitofadick]

Selfishly, I guess I like Cassie. And Loki, too, probably against my better judgment.

[halfcrocked]

[ . . . I don't want to push this but I want to protect Cam but I don't want to push this . . . ]

If you say so. You probably know them better than I do.

[halfcrocked]

...That does sound like a bad call.

[universalboy]

[ Scratches the back of his neck awkwardly. ]

Thank you for the confidence? We'll figure this out.

[universalboy]

Because he's stuck here, too?

[halfcrocked]

Of course.

[bitofadick]

[clears his throat]

Anyway.

[bitofadick]

... oh. Right.

[universalboy]

[ A faint smile. ]

It's good you guys can lean on each other.

[halfcrocked]

Right. Anyway.

[bitofadick]

... are you doing okay?

[bitofadick]

[bites his lip]

... I don't want to make the call this time.

[halfcrocked]

...Then you won't.

[bitofadick]

Is that a total copout?

[universalboy]

I... I'm really worried, but I have to keep it together now.

[halfcrocked]

No. It's not.

[not_so_fast]

I don't either, really. I think Takuto is right, Alpha's probably gonna vote for themselves. I don't know anyone else well enough.


Do you think anyone will vote for us?

[bitofadick]

... If they don't... if we can pick... I'll take the hit, okay? I'm not making the call on the game. I'm not ready to do that again. So it's up to you three. But I don't mind dying or desyncing or whatever.

[bitofadick]

I don't think we can make a purely logical call on this. Not with the information we have.

[halfcrocked]

It's looking that way, yeah.

Personally I want to protect Beta, but we've got to decide as a team.

[bitofadick]

Like I said, I don't think there's a wrong call, exactly. It's just... hoping a vote doesn't get wasted.

[universalboy]

Okay guys, we've got to decide between Iota, Delta and Beta. I'm changing my vote to Beta because, like Artemis said to me, they're jerks and I don't know if anyone would vote for them. Similarly, Secret Agent Coulson Man is a good guy and will want to protect a different team than his own.

[not_so_fast]

...She said half of us.

[bitofadick]

[._.]

[halfcrocked]

Well, here's hoping.