Experiment 10 - Eta

[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

[withabowontop]

Hypothetically speaking, who'd you pick to attack?

[enrichedcenter]

You make that sound so easy.

[proto_hero]

So instead I sit back and wait for another fist-fight?

[flynnitomite]

[shrugs]

Not entirely sure. Perhaps one of the teams I don't know anything about.

[proto_hero]

Think about it. If everyone defends, we're back at square one. They've got to see that.

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[flynnitomite]

Does it have to be turrets?

[withabowontop]

I'm sure you'll manage.

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[withabowontop]

What about teams with less people? Will they only lose half of their team as well or will they lose all?

[withabowontop]

If.

[flynnitomite]

Steve, we're about to be shot by little robots here. Focus on the task at hand, yeah?

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[shockingly_nice]

"Half" is an approximation. You should take it as such.

[withabowontop]

Like?

[enrichedcenter]

Thank you. Step off, nanny Rogers.

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[shockingly_nice]

The turrets are excited, you know. This is going to make their day. You wouldn't want to hurt their feelings, would you?

[enrichedcenter]

Uh, he's pissing me off. Why is that allowed?

[flynnitomite]

Alpha?

[proto_hero]

[firmly]

They'll realize it.

[withabowontop]

Since we're probably all going to die painfully in a rain of turret fire soon, yea. I'd let it slide.

[proto_hero]

I'm focused.

[but backing down]

[withabowontop]

Maybe. I think they only have one person.

[withabowontop]

We could take a calculated risk, attack a team that would mean the least amount of collateral damage.

[flynnitomite]

Doesn't seem like a bad call, then.

[proto_hero]

They're all collateral damage.

[withabowontop]

And if you were going to defend a team?

[withabowontop]

Given the odds, someone's going to die. It's all a matter of how many someones. If you're wrong, and any other team attacks us, it's 50/50 that the two of us won't be standing here.