livestage ([personal profile] livestage) wrote2025-05-30 01:25 pm

CIRRUS NETWORK

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?
mykidisthebest: (Oh oobee doo)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[sorry he only heard the first part]

ISN'T THAT KIND OF EXTREME FOR NO REASON?
endsjustified: (agaric.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.
socialcapital: (086)

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
We won't die, it just might hurt a lot.
mykidisthebest: (And pasts that we're never gonna change)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
But--still. Last time was already bad enough. I don't want you to have to go through something like that again.
thefaultinthestars: (119)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Don't let them trick you, this is absolutely self-sacrifice-y bullshit. They don't want to feel responsible for hurting others and they aren't afraid of being hurt themselves, it's not that deep.
mykidisthebest: (Just a bit of minor surgery)

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think she'd allow that? What if she's the one spinning the wheel and we can't get close to it?
endsjustified: (generalities.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I literally do not think it will be as bad as last time, and I do not think she could do worse.
mykidisthebest: (rather than gazing at a starless sky)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
That makes me want to side with them just to prove you wrong.
socialcapital: (543)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Putting it that way makes it sound really trivial. It's not just 'feeling bad about pushing a button', it's about 'do I really want to stand behind the statement that I don't care who I hurt as long as it's not me'. I can't force you to take a punishment if you're scared of getting hurt but I'd rather take one than fire randomly into a crowd with it.
endsjustified: (underdog.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a Blessing. I would demonstrate it right now but I think Booker would get even angrier with me.
1212081518: (too dead to be admirable)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
If the choice is between hurting myself and hurting him, he one thousand percent wants me to hurt him, and he will be very obnoxious about it.
thefaultinthestars: (113)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[yelling over there]

Don't forget the part where his arm got ripped off and re-attaching it apparently hurt really fucking bad!

And that was after the one where his lips and eyes were sewn shut!
Edited 2025-05-31 00:41 (UTC)
socialcapital: (550)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Hex my argument...
perfectpower: (58)

[personal profile] perfectpower 2025-05-31 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Looks at Booker.

Looks back at Frost.
]

Why're you lettin' that twink be the boss of you?
socialcapital: (533)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I will get you a treat later too.
endsjustified: (all the small nothings.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
This is edging into tangential territory, but people like Mr. Joel wouldn't punish you, I am pretty sure.
endsjustified: (harrowing.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Hey.
perfectpower: (84)

[personal profile] perfectpower 2025-05-31 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
The things I do in the name of cooperation...I want a steak after this.
1212081518: (don't trust your imaginary freedom)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
No, of course not. But we don't have to take it as a given that we will be cast as villains, either.
mykidisthebest: (But you won’t have to cry)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
I don't need a treat though.
endsjustified: (all the small nothings.)

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Because I'm trying to date him.

[blessings are off booker can't prove him a liar neener neener]
perfectpower: (04)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] perfectpower 2025-05-31 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
See? We need to hurt Hex's twin specifically now.
mykidisthebest: (keep my feelings so tucked away)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[IN DISTRESS]

STOP TRYING TO MANIPULATE MY VOTE!
socialcapital: (501)

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I will get you a steak.
thefaultinthestars: (046)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
--that's right, it's not just you here.

I've died four fucking times if we count my visions, which feel just as real as if it happened to me. Burned alive twice. Are you going to look down on me for not signing up for number five and six today?

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