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

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

Alliance?

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

To help each other in games like this, because we get hit a lot. What he was saying was not to attack each other, but it could extend to protection, surely.

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

We've never attacked anyone to begin with. [even though omelettes bussed us last game, OOPS]

Pound and I were working together, but... [she looks conflicted]

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

We're not. We're choosing someone to save.

I didn't see Miles... I don't know if he's here. But I have no one else I want to protect besides him, anyway.

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

I didn't see Pound, but the sweaty guy is there.. he's already died twice. Plus, he's my friend.

But I'm worried about Takshaka and Barghest, too... It's not fair just to pick one team.

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

We don't get a choice. We have one vote. And I'd rather use it on a team who's as unfortunate as we are.

[also his not-boyfriend]

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

....Yeah, I don't want him to die again.

People will probably want to save Takshaka. [but Barghest, she doesn't knoowwww]

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

[he doesn't know any Barghests, so unfortunately, his sympathies are in the negatives]

First, we need to work out a message. Then we'll deal with the votes.

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

[she makes up for it by being concerned with the 2/3 teams that threw them under the bus last game :')]

Y-Yeah...

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

"Stop killing us" will probably just provoke some teams to do it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

...If every team calls a different team ugly, then we could all survive...

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

The problem with that is ensuring everyone covers someone else. We have no way of knowing if...

[wait, trails off]

We could say who we'll vote for in our message.

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

[nods]

And if we tell all the other teams to vote for the next team over, too....

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

"Next team over"? Who would that even be? Our best chance would be to get the team we mention to vote for us back.

Re: DISCUSSION

[acemedium]

By color?

[no comment on the second bit]

Re: DISCUSSION

[grandstanding]

By... alphabet?

[gandere]

[ Can't hold it in anymore: ]

Saving Takshaka is pointless. They're always getting themselves killed--I bet their message will be something akin to 'just vote for us'!

[acemedium]

Um, but they only died once, and that was because of Amalthea....

[gandere]

They are still always sacrificing themselves. Haven't you listened to them?

[acemedium]

That's because they want to protect the other teams. We owe them a lot....

[gandere]

Just because we owe them a lot doesn't mean we need to pay up. They also win a lot of games.

[acemedium]

They look out for us. We should look out for them, too![She doesn't get you, Schooler]

Don't you want to help Swan....?

[gandere]

I can help Swan plenty after these stupid games. He's smart enough to realize that things like allegiances will only cause strife within one's team and that no matter what, he's not able to protect me.

[ She's died twice already and he was unable to do a thing about it after all. ]

We're meant to compete against other teams, not team up with them.

[acemedium]

If he had a chance to in the previous games, I bet he would have done it! And this time, we have a chance to protect someone else, too, instead of attack them! No game is worth killing other people, and they know that! That's why they try to be heroes!

[gandere]

If we were trying to be heroes, we'd come up with a way to save everyone instead of just a single team.

... anyway, what you said about him, it isn't true. If it came down to his team or me, he'd have to stand by his team.

[ Frowning. ] Just like I'd stand by mine instead of sacrificing our own chance to make a difference for someone I knew in another life.