towerofanimus | Infighting Week One

Infighting Week One

Characters: any character participating in the Infighting event
Setting: pods, week one of the event
Format: any
Summary: All week one Infighting event threads should go in here, to keep things organized.
Warnings: horror, trauma, experiment results, impossible geometry, cabin fever

[Group Information]
Dax's Pod
Riki's Pod
Jason's Pod
End of Week One

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[Flipping off... destiny? Destiny? Can you even do that, is that even legal?]

[...Knowing Rose, no. But he's pretty sure that in some places, doing what the administration did to these people was also not legal.]

...We need to find some way to ensure that your team wins, since it seems like you have the best lot out of the three. So I suppose, keep your people, um... doing things.

[few things that Rose does are legal, but all of them are rooted in an unacknowledged but very passionate moral conscience and sympathy for other people. she doesn't talk about it.

she tilts her head a little at the statement, voice becoming sardonic for a moment.]

Yeah, that was kind of the plan I had already. We're not going to let up on our end, so you're probably better off trying to keep yourselves above Dr. Sociopath and his group over there. Better to just vote for my set during a tiebreaker than risk him jumping over us both, you know?

Yes, of course.

[He looks over at a cluster of them again, frowning. They were in such bad shape, but assuming Ruana gave them the right information, it seemed as if their team was in the lead... probably because they were being forced to, but...]

Another possibility is that, um, my group will win, though... it wouldn't be bad, per se, but... yours would be better.

I wish there was some way we could view the points exactly.

Long as my organs stay on the right side of my skin I can deal with any shit this place throws at me.

[Rose is not going to give the Tower the satisfaction of breaking.]

Maybe somebody'll want to lord their score over everyone else and throw up a comparison. Until then we'll just have to wing it.

...Wing it?

[YEAH HE... doesn't really like winging it. Like, at all. There's a pretty pathetic expression on his face right now.]

Yes, wing it. [she gives him a long, stern glare down her sunglasses] If you really don't want to end up with a lifetime strapped to the operating table you're going to have to stop freaking the fuck out about spontaneity and put aside your fetish for being oppressed for a little while.

[And he promptly withers under her glare. Oh God, he can feel it.]

[...But after a few seconds of this, his only partially catastrophic run-in with the Other Equius rings in his mind. Speak strongly, he had been told. Right. That was what he was going to do. He pulls himself out of the shrinking violet position and takes a breath before speaking.]

Fine.

Good. [she reaches out and claps him on the back, that action and the cessation of her OPTIC BLAST the only indication that she's pleased.]

I promise it won't kill you.

[Surprisingly, he doesn't flinch when she touches him this time. But it seems Rose doesn't know her own strength -- that, or Equius has gotten even more remarkably WEAK in the time he's been unscrewing his head in the pods, because he kind of staggers when she pushes him. But yeah, he recovers, and returns to looking down at her.]

Um, Rose... everything in this tower kills you.

[does she care? not really. Rose actually finds it a littler funny, although she manages to keep that to herself.]

Good thing that this isn't something that originated in the tower then, huh?

[Don't worry Rose, laugh your ass off. He's amusing. Instead, he looks around at the common room.]

Does this count as part of the tower?

Not enough to kill you.

[this is said firmly. Rose actually doesn't know whether it does for sure, but she has no problem kicking it into submission if she's wrong.]

For now.

[Rose, you're great and all, but... yeah, they're not coming out of this alive.]

For good, asshole. [well not with that attitude you're not]

Sorry! Just... being realistic...

[Apparently Rose is not a fan.]

That's not being realistic, that's being fatalistic. Realism is acknowledging the situation sucks, taking stock of why, and then finding a way around it.

Well, going around telling people that they positively aren't going to die here isn't exactly realism either.

I'm not telling everyone, fuckwit, just you.

What virtue do I have that makes me more likely to survive than the rest of them? [Seriously Rose, you're not actually blind behind those glasses, are you?]

Because you promised you'd help me keep Team Body Horror off the winner's podium, which isn't something you can do if you're dead.

[she looks over at him, grinning wickedly] And I'm pretty sure you don't want to break a promise with me.

[Okay. Now Rose is making no logical sense, but she's also leering at him, so he's not exactly inclined to disagree.]

...Oh.

[Note to self: don't die.]

[hey look, if she had to threaten people to keep them safe then she will do so. the ends justify the means and all that.]

Yep. Glad that's cleared up.

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Infighting Week One

SSSSHHHH, ONLY YOUTH REBELLION NOW.

WORKING PEOPLE OF THE TOWER UNITE! DOWN WITH THE OPPRESSIVE REGIME!!1!

HUZZAH!!!!

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