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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?

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If you want, we could fight you for it.

All of us against you.

Huh? Why? You're here, too, so you get a say.

[Just reaches over to push him into a beanbag]

I don't want us to suffer, if that's what you're asking.

But if we hit the button and hit a Family we give a shit about, we'll be suffering anyway.

[and this beanbag is getting DISSECTED

here, have some fluff, bro

perhaps the destruction will be a little cathartic]

Even after what happened to you in there...?

...Yeah. I'm with you on that.

Ohlàlà it seems to me then that there is no particular strategy or certain way to avoid punishment. One simply presses the button and hopes the other family prefers the certainty of a punishment by their own hand--and if that is the case, we would certainly not be in any position to offer a proper and fair fight after, only to allow them to take their frustration out on us if they suffer twice.

Edited 2025-05-31 01:36 (UTC)