Experiment 10 - Kappa

[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

Ask GLaDOS questions here

[shockingly_nice]

[unguilded]

Killing, huh?

[ he looks like he's thinking about this deeply for a moment. But now he's here, and he's stuck, and can't help what's about to happen, if and when it does. ]

So this is what it feels like, facing a moment like this. Even though in a situation like this...

[ trying to untense his shoulders, as he properly wrap his mind around this. He looks up. ]

Here's a question! Even though I have a feeling I know what the answer is. If we don't choose, we're going to die anyway, right?

[shockingly_nice]

That's right. And there will be a penalty for forfeiting as well.

[unguilded]

You really enjoy bringing death into the equation when it comes to these tests! What a sadistic attitude for a robot to have.

[shockingly_nice]

Really? And do you have a great deal of experience with robots' attitudes?

[unguilded]

Nope! Because machines don't have their own forms of self control or intelligence like you where I come from.

And now I see why things should stay that way!

[shockingly_nice]

Now, that's unfair. There are plenty of AIs in this facility who have no interest in murdering you. The door mainframe, for example.

[unguilded]

That doesn't mean they're protected from being reprogrammed or changed so easily.

[shockingly_nice]

Do you think I could be changed easily?

[unguilded]

If someone who knew a lot about that sort of thing was able to get close enough, I don't see why not.

[shockingly_nice]

You're wrong. People who knew a lot about a lot of things made more than a few attempts.

[unguilded]

Were they able to finish those attempts?

[shockingly_nice]

A few.

Final decision

[shockingly_nice]

[unguilded]

[ IT'S TOTALLY NOT FUN HAVING TO BE IN THIS PLACE ALONE.

But with no other Kappas around, Dio feels less compelled to put a defense on his room, because he doesn't like the idea of having to attack another team as a result of it. Even if the likely prospect of death makes his heart pound in his chest, he tries to think of each team - who he knows, who he's spoken to, who may need defense so the end won't be as bad it could be.

And because he's hoping that there are other people thinking the same thing and choosing Kappa's room as a result.

He doesn't sound thrilled at having to do this at all. FUCK YO STUPID DEATH GAMES. ]

I guess I'll choose Epsilon to defend, then...!

[ and then he waits ]

Results

[shockingly_nice]

Well, what do you know. It looks like I won't be killing you after all... today.

[ the elevator doors open ]

[unguilded]

...

[ suddenly all of that tension that had built up at the thought of dying from this just. Drains from him. And he stares almost dumbfoundedly for a second as the doors open, almost expecting it to be some kind of trick.

But he quickly regains himself to step into the elevator. ]

[shockingly_nice]

[ it takes him straight back up to Kappa's quarters ]