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?
1797: anth πŸ‘“ unhappy (shujin#16307129)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1797 2025-05-31 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Like we're not going to all see each other immediately after, anyway.

Kind of wish we could turn it on.
demonicdomestic: (surprisingly ordinary)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-05-31 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Looks at him, curious.]

Why?
1797: まこ πŸ‘“ morgana, surprise (shujin#17705554)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1797 2025-05-31 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's like you said, if it's linked to whatever Family has our button or vice versa, we'd at least know that much.

And we are going to be in here for two hours.
demonicdomestic: (thank you)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-05-31 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Those are good points. Though I imagine that the knowledge of who is tied to who is being kept from us deliberately. It focuses our attention purely on the choice of "us vs. them" -- no matter who the 'them' in question may be.
1797: まこ πŸ‘“ smile, awk (casual#17705532)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1797 2025-05-31 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
The producer seems like the type who'd be into people twisting themselves into knots over not knowing.
demonicdomestic: (please don't jest)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] demonicdomestic 2025-05-31 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
An astute observation.

Strategically, it also limits our ability to plan -- I don't personally know of any feuds between those of us here and other Families, but there are certainly those who are more protective of their own, and those who are less.
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.