Iolite

[dramatispersonae]

[Upon entering your team's cloud of mist, you find yourselves transported to a bare stone room with a single stone table and chairs. (The chairs have been bolted to the floor.) On the table are a 16 red stones, 8 blue stones, and a 2 black stones. There are also indentations around the edge of the table, each one marked in the color of one of the teams.]

Comments

Re: Discussion

[arbiterary]

It's the most merciful option.

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

Well, that depends on just what a red stone does. Do we even know that much?

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

There's an interesting perspective. Which is more merciful, a slap on the wrist for everyone, or as hard a hit as you can muster for one?

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

And you know it's just gonna be a "slap on the wrist" how?

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

I don't know what the scale is. But it's still causing the least harm to each, compared with the most harm we can subject to one.

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

I don't agree with his plan, but I think yours is shit too. You're not putting a stone on Sapphire or Kunzite or I'll make sure you won't be walking for at least a month, got it?

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

Do it. I have attachments to Sapphire and Tiger's Eye, as well as a knight I care about on Jasper. They'd understand why I'm suggesting this -- and if you think breaking my legs, or whatever other harm you might like to inflict on me, would even that out later, then I'll accept that.

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

Oh, you're gonna order me around now, huh?

The answer's "no", though that should've gone without saying.

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

Calling your threat is me ordering you around?

If you wouldn't go with either plan, what would you suggest?

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

"Calling it" suggests it was a veiled threat. I think it was pretty clear to everyone exactly what I meant.

I mean the part where you expect me to do it later and then just get revenge after the fact. That's against the whole point. . . what the fuck do I want with revenge? What's that gonna accomplish?

I wanna protect the things I wanna protect. You can't save everyone, so let's save the ones that matter to us the most. What's so wrong with that?

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

We can't control whether any of the other teams target the ones you want to protect. What I'm suggesting is minimizing the damage to everyone -- the idea is to keep from laying too much on anyone.

This is a situation where we can't really save anyone. But we can try damage control.

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

I can control whether or not I damage the things I'm supposed to protect.

You're outvoted, so just deal with it and move on already.

Re: Discussion

[arbiterary]

[nods in agreement]

Not Kunzite.

Re: Discussion

[fallinflames]

...

Then I'll say it again. Which team?

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

Take the teams we want to protect off the table and spread it around whatever's left.

Re: Discussion

[fallinflames]

... It's a compromise, I could work with...

Re: Discussion

[uroboric]

Well, try to keep it to one or two teams for your choice. The more we protect, the more the rest will have to bear.

Re: Discussion

[arbiterary]

It likely if everyone gives evenly then none will be spared.

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

The odds seem to be against teams being spared, regardless.

Re: Discussion

[arbiterary]

You just don't want to be culpable.

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

I'm afraid you've misjudged me. This would minimize the damage to each person, without flinching away from anything -- it treats everyone equally.

Re: Discussion

[arbiterary]

That will be every herbivore's strategy. It will minimize nothing.

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

You're not a wolf, Hibrai, and these people aren't lambs. There's likely someone on every team flinching away from a strategy that would deal damage to a team they've got a connection to, just like you are.

Re: Discussion

[arbiterary]

Your clever strategies aren't clever, they're obvious. And they will not ensure anyone's protection; they are for your own self-satisfaction that you 'did what you could'. That is why they are the strategies all of the teams will flock to.

Re: Discussion

[sticksofthejedi]

I'm not saying what I suggested is clever. Your ideas aren't either -- and likely at least partly motivated by your desire not to harm a particular team. What are you afraid of, Hibari?