afflictionmods | w5 saturday: group f

Well... we could.

[He's just here to be a bother and has no actual stakes or opinions, though.]

That would be a terrible first round, and totally boring.

[ flat sighs! ]

In the movies, the betrayer always waits until the climax to actually turn and betray.

[He's only seen (half of) one movie before, and he didn't see the appeal, so he has no idea what Flat's talking about.]

Is that your plan? To be upfront about everything until the final round?

Of course.

[ he says this like it's obvious. why isn't it obvious? ]

Communication is the pillar of any society. The clearer humans communicate, the better they cooperate.

Well, half of our team isn't human so I think you'll have to forgive us for not being clued in on human society.

[hm.]

Honestly, I don't know that any of the other teams will take you at face value. But being upfront might be interesting...

[It certainly might be disarming.]

Any society should be built on honest communication, not just human society. Though, to be quite honest, humans themselves are rather poor at it!

[ there's a twinkle in his eyes there for a second, though it disappears quickly as flat looks away with a sheepish smile. ]

Well, that's no good. I really don't have any reason to betray them right now. If they want to betray us, then I'd accept that, too.

I doubt Shin would betray us - and for what it's worth, he has physical strength to hold others back from choosing betray without his consent.

It happens when people put their own interests first - or let their decisions be clouded by their prejudice, their fears... Hearts are a tricky thing and people let them get in the way of their thinking, which then makes things not go as smoothly as they should.

[Anyways.]

I'm not sure I'd accept a betrayal so easily, but I don't really care about the outcome of this. We'll get out of here, or we won't.

I guess I just don't understand any of that.

[ flat laughs, shrugging it off. ]

No, we absolutely will leave. Even if all of us simply sat down and took every hit, I think she would just make us forfeit or something like that.

I'm not sure many people do before their first century is over.

[Hmm.]

Forfeiting sounds even worse than playing along, so let's not do that.

Shin said he didn't care... but I don't want to be a dick to Sholmes and Chongyun...

You don't sound very sure of what you're doing.

Who can sound sure in this situation!?

The blond kid seems pretty sure about what he's doing.

Flat's weird!

So confidence is weird?

Yes! No? In this situation kinda!

You've truly never been confident in your life, have you? How terrible.

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See? This is what I meant.

[ flat shakes his head, looking at her with an expression that could almost be described as pitiful. ]

Mister Sholmes will be okay. He's a strong man. And Chongyun will survive, too. Miss Lorelei wouldn't want us dead, so that's definitely not going to happen.

There are a lot of 'fates worse than death' - but they will presumably not be brought upon us in round one of this exercise.

Oh, absolutely. Imagine being an immortal man that's put inside a barrel and thrown into the Hudson River. [ he nods. ] That's worse than death for sure.

[ Nodnod. ]

A punishment arguably worse even than Prometheus and the eagle - after all Prometheus still has company, even if it is chewing at his liver.

...

[ wait a fucking second-- ]

Do you think that counts as a dinner date?

[ Miach blinks... Flat is the only person in her life who would ask this kind of question and throw her totally off-track. ]

That would depend on their feelings about it, no? What turns eating together into a date is the emotional attitude of the participants. After a sufficient amount of time chained alone to a rock, I am sure Prometheus welcomes the eagle at the least.

Could that be like a variation of Stockholm's Syndrome, then?

[ these are the deep philosophical questions that these kids are having. ]

While the real captor is Hades, the eagle is the one that punishes him. It could become a beautiful connection, I think.