livestage ([personal profile] livestage) wrote2025-05-30 01:24 pm

SUN SIGN

You find yourselves in a surprisingly sterile room. It's entirely white, almost blindingly so. There are a few beanbag chairs to sit on, though perhaps not enough for your entire family. On one of the walls, there's a laminated poster of a wheel. At the center of the room is a table with a glass case on top. If you lift the case, you'll find a single red button. Behind a glass panel on the wall is a monitor that is currently off.

Curiously, it does not seem as though you can actually destroy anything in this room (save for a simple note by the button), regardless of how much you may try. The glass will never shatter. The poster cannot be torn into pieces. Furthermore, your blessings and powers are off and none of your personal belongings are actually on your person.

A simple note lays by the button on the table, a reminder of your directive: Will you push the button?
themightybosstone: (why this?)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] themightybosstone 2025-05-31 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Don't figure they'll just be like, ha ha we just wanted to see what you'd do! And let us out with a steak or somethin'.
unlimitedtimeoff: (* 166)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] unlimitedtimeoff 2025-05-31 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't it always?
heartlands: (pic#14961328)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-05-31 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but it's still worth saying.

...What're you thinking?
1797: まこ πŸ‘“ think, smile, awk (casual#17796382)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1797 2025-05-31 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome to Sun Sign, I guess.

—Oh, but is it cool if I ask what you were doing in the ocean?
heartlands: (pic#14961326)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-05-31 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
No - you don't have to! I mean, you're allowed to have an opinion on what we do, too.
wayofthehunt: @ (➳ Haruaki - FXZu42-VEAEqUdd_1)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wayofthehunt 2025-05-31 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Is the alignment of the starts that the Madame was referring to a situation in which each family presses the button, or in which each family does not press the button?

Aside from which, is victory related to whether the button is pressed? It seems rather to be a matter of whose conversation suites the criteria she mentioned.
unlimitedtimeoff: (* 004)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] unlimitedtimeoff 2025-05-31 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Whomst?
unlimitedtimeoff: (* 168)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] unlimitedtimeoff 2025-05-31 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
A steak made from other Family's, maybe.
demonicdomestic: (another day)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-05-31 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
I see sense in both courses of action. And I'm also open to both.

If the question were just, "Will you sacrifice people you don't care about for those that you do," you and I would be fully agreed. I'd have no hesitation in making that choice.

But there are as many people I care about outside this room as there are within it. My allegiances are to people, not Families -- not even my own. And of the two... I have more faith in your ability to "tank a car" than I do Aster's or Snowdrop's.
themightybosstone: (um wat)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] themightybosstone 2025-05-31 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Far as I figure it, she's uh, picking what she likes. Fuck if I know how that actually translates, them Producers think weird.

Button or not's just the set dressin'.

And the ... I guess puppies?
wayofthehunt: (SVNHfanart_Hrmkkuuyo_029)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wayofthehunt 2025-05-31 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Bonjour! Please rest assured that we have not met before.
unlimitedtimeoff: (* 133)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] unlimitedtimeoff 2025-05-31 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Damned if we do, damned it we don't. So it's really more about what we can live with.
heartlands: (pic#14895019)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-05-31 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Puppies are better than most things! Normally.

...Any thoughts?
unlimitedtimeoff: (* 098)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] unlimitedtimeoff 2025-05-31 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good. I'm not completely losing it.
demonicdomestic: (praised)

1/2

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-05-31 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[SPARKLES.]
heartlands: (pic#14961328)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] heartlands 2025-05-31 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[nods]

Then... What can you live with?
wayofthehunt: @ (➳ hkr - 020)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wayofthehunt 2025-05-31 01:15 am (UTC)(link)

And are death and punishment usually equivalent?
wayofthehunt: ~ (➳ hkr - 019)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wayofthehunt 2025-05-31 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I did not mean through the Madam, but ourselves. We could offer to fight the other family about it if they are dissatisfied with the outcome.
themightybosstone: (Taking a firm stance)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] themightybosstone 2025-05-31 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I aint thinkin' many of the rest of yall can neither.
1797: anth πŸ‘“ think (shujin#16307125)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1797 2025-05-31 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... And I guess planning is one of those things she'd consider boring. It's kind of counterproductive if she wants big, emotional decisions.
themightybosstone: (????????)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] themightybosstone 2025-05-31 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
...

I mean. Depending on who. If it's Disorder, prolly the best way t'do it, actually.
vitainmorte: (no one asked for your thoughts) (You asked for my counsel)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] vitainmorte 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think it would be right for me to do so without observing first.... I'm pretty ignorant of how other Families do things.
demonicdomestic: (composed)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
It's not an inconvenience in the least. Your presence here may have been a surprise, but it is by all means a good one.

May I ask your permission to be unquestionably forward?
1797: mm πŸ‘“ morgana, unhappy (shujin#16728363)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1797 2025-05-31 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
This is super dumb, but I kind of want to press it just 'cause it's a button.

I know that's not a good reason, for the record.
vitainmorte: (don't listen, Achilles) (more poignant than fame)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] vitainmorte 2025-05-31 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ ALARMED!!! but a bit less by now and mostly looking deeply embarrassed. ]

-- um. Hello, Cashmere...

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