Experiment 10 - Iota

[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

[in_the_blood]

... Yeah.

[Time to sit on the floor and twiddle our thumbs]

[backwardscompatible]

So, I may have appointed Loki as our team leader last night.

[in_the_blood]

... You did what.

[backwardscompatible]

Captain Rogers held a meeting, and suggested that teams work out a person to represent and keep track of them. I told Loki he should do it, and he eventually agreed.

[in_the_blood]

Because nothing will ever go wrong with that plan.

[backwardscompatible]

I'm not sure it will. He cares about protecting us, or at least the rest of you. And I doubt he'd accept anyone else in the position.

[in_the_blood]

I didn't mean things going badly for us. I meant more for other teams. I know he's... protective, but he also isn't exactly the poster boy for stellar inter-team relations.

[Sigh] I suppose you're probably right about the second part, though. I guess we can pose it to him later.

[backwardscompatible]

He's managed not to do anything to the other teams yet. I think it's worth seeing what happens.

[in_the_blood]

... [Eventually nods]

I guess you're right about that. I can hardly lecture him on giving people a chance if I won't give him one myself. All right. We'll see how it goes.