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.]

Comments

[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.

[gandere]

Why would I care about anyone in Ometotchtli? Do you honestly believe an alliance will solve our problems or do you just want to help your friend?

Because if we're just helping out friends, everyone's got someone in another team they want to protect.

[grandstanding]

The idea is because our teams get killed the most, we should try to mitigate that.

I'm aware of that.

[gandere]

So you'd extend our rotten luck to another team?

[grandstanding]

No, balance it out...

[but he stops, thinking]

[gandere]

So you'd rather risk dragging someone else down--someone you care about?

[grandstanding]

If we use our message to say we're voting someone out, then they'd know they're covered, and hopefully reciprocate.

[gandere]

So you'd show our favoritism publicly.

[grandstanding]

For god's sake Schooler, do you want to live or not? I'm trying to find a chance for us. I'll let you pick the team if you don't like my choice.

[gandere]

You just said I could have no input, now you're changing your mind. So wishy-washy.

[ Sighing. ] It doesn't matter what team we pick. I just had to say why I thought it was a poor idea.

[grandstanding]

I'm open to others, but we're nearly out of time.

[gandere]

Just pick a team and let's get this over with.

[grandstanding]

[haaaaaaaa this is crap]