dramatispersonae | [*] Citrine

[*] Citrine

[ Your team is left alone - strange, how it didn't seem like you went anywhere, just everyone else disappeared.

A woman's voice - can be heard now ]

Ah . . . what I would give . . . no, what you will give? Your choices will determine that, so let us play a simple card game. But first, choose your stance.

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... Martyr makes the most sense.

Though, if it's just me, I could attack.

What do we get when we ask about a team?

A surprise.

Very helpful.

I guess it'd be better to ask after a team I'd like to protect and a team I'd be okay with attacking, if I'm an attacker.

Hard to pick a team I'd be okay with doing that, too, but the others wouldn't want me being a martyr.

... I'm not so sure it's a good idea I do that right now, either.

Hm, yeah, I'll ask after Heliodor and Kunzite.

And I could be an adviser, but I think I'd be pretty bad at getting other people to listen to me.

[hi I'm late '-']

I'd possibly think it was dumb, but understandable given the circumstances. Why isn't it a good idea on your end?

I've hurt myself too much lately. I don't think it's a good idea to knock the screws loose again.

I'm down with you not hurting yourself, to be honest. But is there a team you could attack in good conscience, or would that knock some other screws loose?

I think I could handle it.

... It'll take being callous, but you can protect offensively, too.

Not necessarily in this situation. Everyone's moving blind. If we knew what team would be attacking who and our attack actually cancelled theirs out, then we'd be able to do that. But as it is, we'd just be firing into a smokescreen, and possibly just contributing more net damage to the whole.

I can be callous, I just don't see any more of an advantage in attacking.

We don't know that everyone's moving blind. Don't assume that.

Either way, now that you're here, you dying isn't an answer. You can't ask me to let that happen.

And I'd go for adviser, but there's also another factor: I figure a number of people will be willing to take that. We don't want to be one of many. It might break the game and upset the persona.

It's the best position as long as you're not self-defeatedly investing in "winning," true.

[addressing the ceiling] Will it unbalance the game if the majority of teams choose the adviser stance?

There was a game once where everyone did a trick to go unoffensive.

... It didn't go well.

[and there was an answer]

Given that answer, are you willing to risk it?

No.

[the very faintest sigh]

All right, then.

As far as our "surprise" teams...we should consider whether the Persona is going to have a dick move up her sleeve and either force us to attack them or force us to not attack them. Depending upon our safe target list, that could limit us considerably. I assume Heliodor is off your target list, let me know if anybody else is. I didn't see Shion or Estelle in the mingle, though I'm still not entirely chill with attacking Sapphire or Sterling. Would prefer not to attack Roxas either. Neutral on the rest of the teams.

That's why I wanted to split it. I don't think we'll have to attack right away.

Let's go for Iolite and Kunzite. We might not be able to do anything for Heliodor even if we do know about them.

Re: discussion

chibisama - 2013-01-01 00:14 (UTC) - Expand

It will be certainly an issue, but not one you have to worry about as players.

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