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

[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?

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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.