Epona

[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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[gandere]

[ Does she look vain enough to go with that? ]

[grandstanding]

That's what I thought.

[gandere]

--But I'm still going to be mad at anyone who calls us ugly.

... [ AHA! ]

[gandere]

This is a good way to find out who has been killing us during these games, isn't it?

[grandstanding]

Perhaps, but I'd prefer not to find out by it happening again.

[gandere]

If we find out who calls us ugly, aren't they considered allies?

[grandstanding]

If we find out.

[gandere]

I'll work on trying to find that out.

--Then we can plan for the future better.

[grandstanding]

[listening to VP's answer... not impressed, but not surprised.]

We need to focus on ourselves and what to do right now, not who's going to throw us to the wolves.

[because assuredly, they will be]

[gandere]

[ They likely will and she knows it. For now, it's keeping up the morale of the other teammates in hopes they aren't discouraged. ]

So what kind of message do you think we should send out?

[ STOP BEATING A DEAD HORSE YOU GUYS?? ]

[grandstanding]

Nothing about how great we are. Or our looks.

[gandere]

We have to fit it with the theme of the game, Blade. It's only fair.

So a message with double meanings.

[grandstanding]

Why should we? I doubt anyone else will be fair about it.

[gandere]

Because it would miss the point of the entire game if we make some stupid message. If our message is pretty, then everyone will hopefully be inspired by how great of a team we are!

[grandstanding]

[oh my god for real]

Schooler, the point of the game is to kill people. I don't care how this Echo dresses it up. I'm not playing along.

[gandere]

Sometimes Echoes reward shards for additional things. The last game I was in we did well because of some stupid team building exercises-!!

So I'm not just pulling stunts out of thin air, all right?

[grandstanding]

I don't care about the damn shards, I care about getting us out alive!

[gandere]

--Well that's not going to happen so we should focus on what we can get out of this game.

[ She's already pretty much accepted her death. What a depressing state of affairs. ]

[grandstanding]

Fine. You get no input into the message.

[SHOTS FIRED]

[gandere]

As if you were going to allow me to do so in the first place. I'm the reason we're always attacked, you know.

[grandstanding]

Maybe because you're so busy thinking that, everyone takes you up on it.

[gandere]

--Forget it.

[ It's not as if she goes around crying about it to anyone. She just happens to slip up about it at her teammates and regrets it every single time. ]

I'm sure you'll come to a solution that will make everyone happy and we can go back to our dorms just fine after seeing some other team killed.

[grandstanding]

I don't care about other teams. I care about this one.

And that, I already know, will make none of you happy.

[gandere]

So unless you can convince everyone else to refuse to participate, nothing can be done that will please this team.

[ And that is why we lose trauma games! ]

[grandstanding]

Miles came to me with the suggestion of an alliance between us and Ometotchtli. I wanted to wait until we had a patron to ask everyone. But the idea is we wouldn't target each other in bad games... there's no reason to think it couldn't extend to protection too.

So I want to use our vote, at least.