Experiment 10 - Delta

[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

[sparklyrichbastard]

But we can't just attack another team, either!

[suprasensuality]

You'd prefer to let half us of fall?

[sparklyrichbastard]

No, but... but isn't it better to try to save somebody than to try and kill them?

[suprasensuality]

This is also an action to save the lives of your teammates. To refuse is suicide, and not just your own. You want to refuse on a purely ideological basis?

[sparklyrichbastard]

You don't know nobody is going to protect us! What if we killed a whole team? How could we live with ourselves?

[suprasensuality]

The odds are against us. You can't just assume the best outcome. Would you be able to if you're wrong?

[sparklyrichbastard]

Yes!

[suprasensuality]

That's a nice look. But. . .

[ grabs Tamaki's wrist, tight in his grasp. it probably hurts quite a bit ] Are you all talk?

[iceicebladey]

Defend your argument.

[sparklyrichbastard]

It's not right!

[iceicebladey]

That's it?

[sparklyrichbastard]

Yes, that's it! What is wrong with all of you? You can't just go around attacking people!

[iceicebladey]

So you'd rather attack your own teammates?

[sparklyrichbastard]

I'm not attacking anyone!

[iceicebladey]

Look.

We need to come up with a decision at some point. Now's not the time to be a pansy.

[twindividualism]

She'll kill us all if we don't . . .

[sparklyrichbastard]

That's if we don't do anything at all! We can defend somebody! I want to save somebody!

[twindividualism]

Can't we save ourselves?

[sparklyrichbastard]

I can't have that on my conscience!

[twindividualism]

. . . Tamaki, you need to choose. Do you want to save a stranger, or do you want to save me? I'd rather protect you.

[sparklyrichbastard]

[ ET TU KAORU??? ]

[twindividualism]

You have to consider both.

[unexpectedboner]

You know what that means, right? Are you okay with dying? ...Are you okay with not dying?

[sparklyrichbastard]

I'm not okay with any of it, but I can't...

[unexpectedboner]

It's a shit decision any way you slice it. I won't say that it's not. It's gonna be awful either way. You've gotta figure out what you're gonna feel the least guilty about later.