Yeah. Yeah, that's where a lot of us are. It's hard to trust a bunch of strangers with our lives when we only have a few days to figure it out. Like..."hey, which of these people annoyed you the least? Better go with them."
I've met people who have one person in mind, but nobody with a solid team yet.
There are people here who know each other too, right? Gives a few people one headache less than those of us who don't know anyone.
[ he says to a dude who knows someone here. ]
Still. Flip it around, and those of us who don't know anyone don't have any weird responsibility guilt forcing us to pick that person. [ he looks thoughtful. ] Wonder how people are deciding who they have in mind. Pin powers? Vibes?
Well, maybe not by much. Those people who know people here probably have a different problem of trying to pick teammates that suit both them and the people they know.
[ he says, facing that problem himself. ]
I'm not so sure everyone who knows someone here will pick the person they're familiar with either. So...vibes, probably? Pin powers doesn't make a whole lot of sense when we're still learning how to use them. [ and when so many of them have the same ones, but it's fine. ]
Yeah, the spread wasn't very well thought-out... [ he says, as a drift aura user. ]
You'd think that'd be logical, but there's also a chance that the people with healing might resist using it at all even for their teammates if they don't get along.
[ yes, yes, their fates are tied together but never underestimate the power of spite in some people. ]
Not everyone wants to share every aspect of their life. Not immediately.
[ me saying this like he’s a locked fort when he’s actually pretty reasonable about talking about himself. crow makes him look buzen gou levels of open. ]
You can usually tell. And the situation might change things.
I think there's a line between being shady and being open that isn't sharing every single aspect. [ selective sharing is real, and he practices it daily. also that comparison is so much becks. ]
I'm getting the feeling we'll have to be at least a little more open with our teammates whether we want to be or not. That's all.
Depends on if there’s the scent of something illegal about it too. [ money laundering. murder. y’know. also i’m not wrong. no one is as shady as crow. ]
Selectively, sure. But, yeah. There are some things it doesn’t make sense to hide from people you’re around all the time.
… Guess we’ll find out as we end up doing illegal stuff. They’ve already told us we’re kangaroo courting when people get “erased”, so that’s something.
[ a good something? well. good question. ]
Yeah. That’s why less than a week to decide is an interesting choice. [ “interesting”. “sadistic”. potato, poh-tah-to. ]
Maybe that means we're making up our own rules when we get that far. [ because he wants to believe nobody will try to eliminate someone, but it does not seem entirely likely. ] Rules also say steal at your own risk, so there has to be something to it.
[ low hum of agreement though. it's a short, shitty time. ]
Even if it's not perfect, we might just have to make it work.
We’ve been stealing left, right and centre with no consequence. It might be what you’re stealing that matters. Like, if I tried to run off with one of those crappy looking pairs of cargo shorts.
[ weewooweewoo instant jail. ]
… [ well, as they’ll find out in like 24 hours, yeah. team up or die. ] Maybe. Wonder if we can whip up a crappy psychological questionnaire and go from there.
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Have you started figuring it all out yet?
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[ simple! but blunt. ]
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I've met people who have one person in mind, but nobody with a solid team yet.
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[ he says to a dude who knows someone here. ]
Still. Flip it around, and those of us who don't know anyone don't have any weird responsibility guilt forcing us to pick that person. [ he looks thoughtful. ] Wonder how people are deciding who they have in mind. Pin powers? Vibes?
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[ he says, facing that problem himself. ]
I'm not so sure everyone who knows someone here will pick the person they're familiar with either. So...vibes, probably? Pin powers doesn't make a whole lot of sense when we're still learning how to use them. [ and when so many of them have the same ones, but it's fine. ]
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Yeah, well. Ten of you have healing, nine of you have drift aura, whatever that is. That's almost half the people on the data app stuck in two niches.
[ cowabummer. ]
If you're gonna be logical, healers should be one per team. But I doubt it'll work out like that.
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You'd think that'd be logical, but there's also a chance that the people with healing might resist using it at all even for their teammates if they don't get along.
[ yes, yes, their fates are tied together but never underestimate the power of spite in some people. ]
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Maybe between team loyalty and spite healing, everyone will get what they need. [ wonderful. ]
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We'll have to wait and see. Not like the teams will be a secret after they're picked.
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[ he's not wrong. ]
Nah. For better or worse.
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At least we'll know what we're up against. You know, with knowing teams and having those profiles. It makes it harder to keep some secrets.
[ harder, but not impossible. ]
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[ me saying this like he’s a locked fort when he’s actually pretty reasonable about talking about himself. crow makes him look buzen gou levels of open. ]
You can usually tell. And the situation might change things.
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I'm getting the feeling we'll have to be at least a little more open with our teammates whether we want to be or not. That's all.
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Selectively, sure. But, yeah. There are some things it doesn’t make sense to hide from people you’re around all the time.
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Do you think anything even counts as illegal here? It's not like there're cops watching us either. [ like shu has a point, but he has to wonder. ]
And it comes back to "can you trust your teammates with those selective things."
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[ a good something? well. good question. ]
Yeah. That’s why less than a week to decide is an interesting choice. [ “interesting”. “sadistic”. potato, poh-tah-to. ]
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[ low hum of agreement though. it's a short, shitty time. ]
Even if it's not perfect, we might just have to make it work.
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[ weewooweewoo instant jail. ]
… [ well, as they’ll find out in like 24 hours, yeah. team up or die. ] Maybe. Wonder if we can whip up a crappy psychological questionnaire and go from there.
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[ for their own frame of reference. ]
...there is that network. If we really wanted we could put out a mass text of some kind.
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