testingphase | Experiment 10

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Experiment 10 - Eta

[ 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.

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Hm. Zeta, I suppose.

You know them?

The ginger is easy on the eyes.

Adding more attacks into the pool ensures more people die. Period.

[okay, I'll give you that]

So you want to defend Theta, then?

Now that doesn't seem fair.

Yeah. On the wrong things.

[nods]

They're after us alphabetically. And I saw four of their teammates during introductions.

Nope.

Then let's talk strategy.

[not going to argue but moves on, pointing with his chin to the chute]

If the attack comes, it'll be with turrets through that. Stay in the back.

[straightens up]

I'm not a civilian.

No, you're not but you're also the one everyone knows, thus the least expendable.

[plus, you'd be wasting all that working out you've been doing]

How strong are their weapons here?

You're not expendable either.

[unhappy, but ... accepting that reasoning for now.]

Very strong. Turrets can be knocked over though - they won't operate if they're on their sides.