DRAMA

[principals]

[You step into a small room, reasonably comfortable room with plenty of chairs for you to sit on, and the door promptly locks behind you. Everything is decorated in your team colors, with splashes of neutral cream.]

On one wall is a huge, laminated poster bearing your instructions. On the lone table in the middle of the room, you find a tall glass cylinder labelled "Bank"; it contains 15 small orbs in your team color. You also find: four buttons (Hand, Shield, Lunch, Kit) that you can press should you wish to make a purchase; the six cards that are to be your starting hand; and five card-shaped, team-colored slots. Your team color is notably missing.

Everything is utterly indestructible, no matter what you try to do.]

Comments

[clocksandroses]

If it attacks whoever we played it on, they'd fight back. I don't want it or them to get hurt.

[anoblecaws]

We can send our people in too to support it.

[clocksandroses]

No.

Let's just stick with the low cards for now, Henry-san.

[anoblecaws]

Aw, fine.

Maybe someone else got a spider card too and we can check it out that way.

[clocksandroses]

Thank you!

And ... maybe. I wonder how immediately we'll find out, this time ...

[anoblecaws]

Well, I'm sure the screaming will alert us.

[ n_n ]

[clocksandroses]

... Henry-san, if that does happen, would you help me try to get the spider away before anyone gets hurt?

[anoblecaws]

Well, whoever used the spider might get ticked off at us if we do that.

[Not supposed to make yourself a target, and all that.]

[clocksandroses]

They'd already have the points ... er, orbs, that is. So it wouldn't make a difference to them.

[anoblecaws]

Yeah, but it sends the message that we're going to either mess with their plans or protect that team. Then the people who set the spider off in the first place will attack us -- and that third team -- even more.

[clocksandroses]

I doubt it.

Kit and I have old teammates on every single team here except History, you know.

[anoblecaws]

What if they're outvoted?

[clocksandroses]

If anything, Henry-san, I think people on other teams would be grateful that people are trying to help out.

It wouldn't surprise me if the very team that played a card toed the rules and went over to help them.

[anoblecaws]

Wow, you sure do have a lot of faith in our enemies, huh?

[This is what military school does to you, unfortunately.]

[clocksandroses]

They're not our enemies. Opponents, right now, yeah. But not enemies.

[anoblecaws]

But they could be.

[clocksandroses]

They're not. Please trust me on at least that much.

[anoblecaws]

Hee hee. Well, let's wait and see what happens~

[clocksandroses]

That's all we can do!

In the meantime, we're gonna play two of the lowest cards on Science and History.

[anoblecaws]

Kit explained that, yeah. It's 'cause you want to minimize the damage on the people you actually like, right?

[clocksandroses]

Well, there is that element, as well. It's also a way to prevent escalation where it might not be necessary.