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?
1212081518: (invent what is considered uninventable)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's him. So my investment is only indirectly personal.
endsjustified: (at the heart of the ridiculous.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm quite sorry. I don't like seeing Family hurt. I don't like seeing you hurt. I care about you very much.
mykidisthebest: (a dozen goodbye kisses)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Tali's one of the people requesting we don't push the button.

[wavering visibly all the same]
thefaultinthestars: (056)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Counter-counter point, all of your reasons were bad and also I don't care. You're outvoted anyway.

[going to go push the button!]
socialcapital: (505)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ OW!!! HEADBUTTS HIM ]

How's trying to eat up time any worse than going straight for the button!!!
thefaultinthestars: (185)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
If you knew for sure Tali would get blended, would you hit the button?
socialcapital: (644)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ FROM ACROSS THE ROOM ]

STOP HOLDING ME HOSTAGE IN HYPOTHETICAL
thefaultinthestars: (050)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[OW!! Rolls over and punches him in the side]

Because you'd rather definitely hurt everyone in here than maybe hurt someone you care about out there!
mykidisthebest: (The chemistry is a mess)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[laughs like he very much does not believe him]

You don't have to make things up.
endsjustified: (get in the water.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[tackles his ass]

No!
1212081518: (more sexually deprived than vintage)

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
You won't die. If that's your qualification, don't worry about it.
mykidisthebest: (A hammer to the statue of David)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Not by that much!
thefaultinthestars: (028)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
YOU'RE HOLDING EVERYONE OUTSIDE HOSTAGE IN HYPOTHERICAL
endsjustified: (alea iacta est.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
If you want me to say it in front of Booker when he has his Blessing working to verify, I will.
mykidisthebest: (I saw you in a bright clear field)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
...Caramel is pretty good...
thefaultinthestars: (114)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
It is literally twice as likely if we don't.
1212081518: (good thinking rises goodly)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Consider this my personal speculation, but the most serious crimes done by this small group will be done outside of this place and time.
mykidisthebest: (known by the tree)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Why are you pushing so hard against it when you were all for taking the punishments last time?
1212081518: (don't trust your imaginary freedom)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
They might.

I don't think there's really a good answer here. I'm only explaining my own perspective.
endsjustified: (laconic latency.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes. That's true enough.

Still, it's all about public image, in some ways.
socialcapital: (634)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] socialcapital 2025-05-31 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want to hurt everyone in here, but isn't it just going to happen anyway?? We can't help if someone else hits THEIR button. Getting hit twice isn't going to be that much worse than getting hurt once, is it?
thefaultinthestars: (113)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[goes down oof, but keeps dragging himself toward the button]

Prick! See if I believe you about not volunteering for it ever again.
mykidisthebest: (Just a bit of minor surgery)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's just that spinning the wheel is guaranteed. So it's the same percentage chance...twice.
thefaultinthestars: (063)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's going to be at least twice as bad you damned idiot??!
1212081518: (we should all probably challenge joy)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] 1212081518 2025-05-31 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
The public image is determined by our messaging after the decision. And if our decisions are split like this, the messaging might be the same either way.

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