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

[not_so_fast]

...If we can only pick one...

It might be kinda stupid, but I want to protect Iota.

[universalboy]

Why is it stupid? Wanting people to not get hurt isn't stupid.

[not_so_fast]

Because I want to protect them because of one person.

[universalboy]

... and the rest?

[not_so_fast]

Obviously I want to protect everyone. Just especially Cassie.

[universalboy]

I understand. Is she...?

[ Y'know, FEELINGS? ]

[not_so_fast]

I like her.

[universalboy]

[ Smiles brightly! ]

I'm happy for you! I did some of those skits with her, she was a lot of fun.

[not_so_fast]

I mean, I should try and be more rational and figure out who we should vote for strategically.

[universalboy]

I'm not blaming you for that at all. I would vote for the team the people I loved were on immediately... but I think in this situation, I want to vote for Delta. I don't think the new people will be able to handle dying very well.

Not that I expect anyone to handle it well.

[not_so_fast]

...Yeah, Delta probably makes sense. But would other people vote for them for the same reason?

[universalboy]

That's what I'm wondering about. Maybe I should think about teams that nobody would vote for... but I think Alpha would vote for themselves.

[bitofadick]

... Do you think anyone else would pick them?

[not_so_fast]

Era or Beta might, I dunno. Thor, Loki, and Darcy are from the same place as Coulson and them, so...

[bitofadick]

I don't...

[sigh]

I need to know the other teams well enough to guess who they'd pick. Who their friends are. And I don't.

[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.

[not_so_fast]

...She said half of us.

[bitofadick]

[._.]

[not_so_fast]

Takuto's a civilian...

[bitofadick]

... yeah.