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

[twindividualism]

What is simple about this?!

[suprasensuality]

The rules as they've been laid out are straightforward, no?

[twindividualism]

[o i c you are crazy]

[suprasensuality]

[ y. continues on, dispassionately ]

With half the team being completely new, we have no guarantee of defense from others. Even with the meeting yesterday, there was no plan for this kind of situation. Protecting ourselves is the obvious plan of action.

[iceicebladey]

We're not a very popular team, either.

The last test we had, we bought the corpses of the clones who died two of our members could look into them and learn more about the clones. There weren't a lot who were happy about our decision.

[twindividualism]

[nnnot responding, just looking decidedly ill over here]

[sparklyrichbastard]

What kind of team did we end up on...

[twindividualism]

They're even worse than Kyouya in the morning!

[iceicebladey]

It helped us learn more about how these bodies work, but you don't believe it, so I'm probably just lying.

[twindividualism]

You can't blame someone for not believing in a technology that doesn't exist in the real world!!

[iceicebladey]

You may not believe this, but you're not in your world either. All of us here come from different worlds. It's all really unbelievable at first, but it's the truth.

[twindividualism]

[FREAK OUT!!!!]

[twindividualism]

[Listening on on the conversation with Tenjoh—]

Why . . . do the points matter for this? Don't tell me they're connected to the clones . . .

[suprasensuality]

[ focuses on Mikagami 'cause no point in talking to host club boys \o/ (u-until one addresses him directly) ]

Yet more reason to go ahead with that decision, then. There's a possibility another team choosing defense may attack us, if they bear a grudge.

[iceicebladey]

I admit, this team is a bit crazy, but I don't think anyone would bear a grudge for that.

Since clones are going to get replaced at the end of this test, I'd go for the team who has the most points. At most, they'll be spending less than two hundred points, anyway. We can't afford to lose the points that we have now.

[suprasensuality]

I've no argument with that plan.

[iceicebladey]

[ nods ]

Good. Tests don't come everyday, so we need to take advantage of each one as much as we can. GLaDOS can change the prices of what we can purchase at her own will, so she may raise how much it costs to buy a replacement clone any time.

[suprasensuality]

I am not the one you need to convince. [ gestures to Tamaki ] We can discuss other ramifications at a later point, but if we need consensus he may be the better focus currently.

[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?

[iceicebladey]

Defend your argument.

[sparklyrichbastard]

It's not right!

[twindividualism]

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

[unexpectedboner]

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