Experiment 10 - Theta

[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

[jackoclubs]

'Course she won't. She's stupid.

[madasahero]

[nods]

Exactly. Those are also more likely to be hit multiple times.

[lovedtodeath]

. . . so what are we going to do?

[madasahero]

The guy wearing a fashionable outfit the other day. Tamaki. He is some sort of royal concubine.

[jackoclubs]

[. . .]






Are you completely and absolutely sure about that?

[fishpanties]

[nods...]

Beta, Eta, Zeta, Gamma, and Iota should be fine.

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[shockingly_nice]

Which ones are you referring to? Everyone will be attacked regardless of whether anyone defends themselves. But if you do choose to defend yourself, that will serve as an extra attack for them to have to defend from.

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[shockingly_nice]

Yes.

[jackoclubs]

I don't know.

[snaps a little, before pulling himself in, exhaling deeply]

. . . but I can tell you what we don't do. We don't make this decision based on popularity.

[jackoclubs]

[hrrrgh]

Delta might be okay too, if everyone is thinking along the same lines as us.

[lovedtodeath]

[light hair ruffle]

I agree.

[madasahero]

Well, he told me Ouran Host Club is a place where the most beautiful and charming male students entertain the school's female population. They are very wealthy and powerful.

[And in my world that can only mean one thing. :|a]

Re: Ask GLaDOS questions here

[madasahero]

I see. Thank you for your cooperation.

[jackoclubs]

[oh a host club]

. . . I think you might be thinking of something completely different, Sion-san.

[fishpanties]

[reluctant nod]

Alpha doesn't get out much, and I don't know if Kappa does, either.

[jackoclubs]

[ajsdop takes a step back and blinks at him, reaching up to flatten his hair]

. . . Aoko's made a list of teams she think will be protected just fine. So we just need to pick one that isn't listed.

Epsilon?

[jackoclubs]

And Epsilon lost a round of the last test.

[fishpanties]

Really nice.

[lovedtodeath]

[a little skittish . . . ]

I trust you guys.

[madasahero]

...Really?

Regardless, he is friendly and eager to please. I am not quite sure if he would be the most targeted.

[lovedtodeath]

[nods]

I planned on it. Perhaps that plastic wall . . .

[jackoclubs]

S'not a matter of being targeted. It's a matter of being protected, and he's new.

But if other teams are thinking along the same lines of us, Delta might be okay.

[fishpanties]

Yeah.

[her grip on his jumpsuit tightens shakily]

S-So... Out of those three?

[fishpanties]

[thinking hard, jaw clenched.]

Alpha and Kappa... I don't know much about them, but they don't seem to get out often. Delta has two new people... Epsilon...

[lovedtodeath]

. . . it looks like there's only so much we can do. I'm hoping for a miracle . . .