Amalthea

[soulping]

[The room you’ve been ushered into looks a lot like a team-colored version Rotten’s own. There’s all sorts of manga available to read in a bookshelf, on the wall, and even a low table to sit at if you want to. ...Unfortunately, it’s still all covered by a tarp, just the same as the original room. Whoops. On the bright side, there’s a laptop sitting on the table, but it only seems to be loading one page, some kind of BBS messaging system.]

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TEAM PICKS PARTY

[codecmoment]

[ FACEHANDS. ]

There's a few plans that overlap, but...

Re: TEAM PICKS PARTY

[morbirdinterest]

...Two that suggest alphabetical order, one that suggests swapping in pairs, one in a seemingly arbitrary order.

Now is the time to decide if you want to stick with the team you were set on protecting or try to follow one of these.

[codecmoment]

Ratatoskr said to follow Takshaka, sort of. Epona is also following Takshaka's plans by voting for Ometotochtli.

... let's go for Takshaka. They're depending on us.

[morbirdinterest]

Barghest and Ratatoskr may be depending on us too.

[codecmoment]

I know - and Barghest is really pushing their own plan.

[ Rubs his face again, sharply sucking in breath. ]

Ratatoskr, then? I wanted to protect them to begin with.

[morbirdinterest]

...If I am projecting correctly, each of the three plans presented - Takshaka's, Barghest's, and alphabetical order - gives us three different teams to choose from. There is no overlap by which we may use probability in order to select a most likely plan that will be followed.

And, as Technic has pointed out, we have no way of knowing if these messages have been posted in the same order for all teams.

...At least, if we select Ratatoskr, one plan will be fulfilled, and some personal satisfaction may be had from the choice also.

[codecmoment]

[ Looks the slightest bit relieved that he can protect the one person in this place that he really genuinely wants to. ]

So are you a vote for the rats too, then?

[morbirdinterest]

...Yes. I might as well. With no way of knowing which teams are willing to give up on their own plans for another's there is little point in calculating further.

[zeroexposure]

...I want to say Takshaka, too.

[codecmoment]

Tart and I are both leaning towards Ratatoskr, for different reasons.

[zeroexposure]

That's fine.

[I am just looking more and more disheartened though...]

[codecmoment]

... though if Barghest pushes their own, Takshaka is relying on us.

[ Swallows. ]

Maybe... shit, I can't decide here.

[zeroexposure]

Whatever we do someone is going to get screwed over.

...A-And chances are we're going to get screwed over too, and it's because everyone tried their best.

[menially]

We can't assume that any particular team will be relying on us, Otacon. The chance for that to be wrong is just too great.

If you have your reasons, stick with them. We can't afford to be indecisive.

[menially]

There's no way to tell which of these people will pick.

For all we know, everyone will follow their own plan, which will leave at least one of us behind.

[morbirdinterest]

If Ratatoskr takes their own advice, they will be following Takshaka's. That still leaves three possible plans to follow, however.

[menially]

And that's also assuming these were posted in the same order for everyone.

[morbirdinterest]

...That is that too.

[menially]

... Tart, what are the compositions of the other teams? Ages, genders, that sort of thing.

[morbirdinterest]

I am not familiar with all the teams and furthermore I may not have seen everyone who arrived for the game. However, I believe Takshaka and Ratatoskr are the most weighted with children. The others have more of a mixture of children and adults, as we do.

More than that I cannot say.

[zeroexposure]

...I want to say to follow Takshaka's plan, but that means depending on Barghest and they seem pretty set on following their own plan.

[morbirdinterest]

They do. It makes choosing which plan to follow trickier...

[zeroexposure]

I mean, I'm...kind of biased too, but...

[morbirdinterest]

The plans are all viable...it is the conflict and lack of communication possible between planners that is the issue.

[zeroexposure]

I figured. It's just kind of...f-frustrating, I guess?