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

[enrichedcenter]

So don't play the game.

[withabowontop]

You think we should pick a team to attack instead?

[enrichedcenter]

No, I think we should skip the mind game. Protect someone at random. Don't let her get her kicks.

[flynnitomite]

She gets her kicks either way, mate. I'm with Barton on this one.

[enrichedcenter]

Uh, no offense, but you'd torch your own mother if it'd save your own skin. You're disqualified from giving your opinion on this one.

[proto_hero]

[warning tone]

He's got a right to speak too.

[enrichedcenter]

[/IGNORES

does not care about your warning tone 8D;;]

[proto_hero]

[dammit Tony '^']

Stark.

[enrichedcenter]

Yes, dear?

[proto_hero]

Don't get into this with him. Not now.

[enrichedcenter]

Did either of us ask you to police our conversations? That's a rhetorical question, we both know the answer is 'no'.

[withabowontop]

[half whisper]

Don't get mom mad before we even start the game.

[enrichedcenter]

You make that sound so easy.

[flynnitomite]

I'd never torch Mum.

[enrichedcenter]

It has a soul after all.

[flynnitomite]

[rolls his eyes and waves a sign of the cross in the air half-assedly]

[enrichedcenter]

You're secretly a mama's boy, aren't you.

[flynnitomite]

Sometimes I even remember to call home.

[withabowontop]

She's testing to see how well we know the other teams. Sacrifice and hero stuff, right? The strong protecting the weak. So, defend the teams who are going to be self-sacrificing or attack the teams who will try to defend themselves.

[flynnitomite]

Assuming that everyone is thinking along those lines, they're going to assume that we'll defend someone else on account of all the heroes in pink we've got.

[withabowontop]

Not a hero, my other jumpsuits at the cleaners.

[flynnitomite]

That makes two of us, then.

[withabowontop]

Hypothetically speaking, who'd you pick to attack?

[flynnitomite]

[shrugs]

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

[withabowontop]

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