[Sea Witch / Hook Game]

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[so we're both aware of the rules:

⎈ This is a game run by the Sea Witch and Captain Hook.

⎈ Pairs must decide on one person to live and one to die out of the two of them. This must be a joint decision. They may make an offer of something else in an attempt to save themselves, but must still decide who will die. Refusing to make a choice means that BOTH will die, if their offer is not accepted. Offers may be made individually or as a pair, but will be judged as a pair.

⎈ At the end of the game, your offer will be judged. The top 50% of offers will be accepted and those people will be spared.

⎈ The partner who is slated to die will have the opportunity to decide how to kill themselves. Methods generally are killing yourself, having your partner kill you, or allowing Hook/Sea Witch to do it. Generally, you should wait until part two for any killing.]

Comments

[telltaleheart]

...

[just... this face for a while]

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[...ugh]

I don't have an interest in bartering for my life.

[telltaleheart]

...You're not going to die.

[boxupallthebutterflies]

It's probably possible to win if we focus on dying spectacularly.

[telltaleheart]

I don't want to win like that.

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[flopping down on the grounddd]

Well, what do you suggest?

[telltaleheart]

[...sits next to her]

I'm not letting you die. So, I'll be the one. Then... we just have to figure out an offer...

[boxupallthebutterflies]

...All this begging to save lives is quite distasteful. I'd almost offer to kill someone else if I have to offer anything.

[telltaleheart]

It's not begging, it's negotiating. They've laid out their terms. ...And I don't think offering to kill someone would do much if they're going to die anyway.

[boxupallthebutterflies]

It's all groveling to me. They simply want to see us scramble desperately to put something together with all our best efforts, then sneer in our faces and count it as nothing. I'm not going to be the one pleading on my knees in that situation.

[telltaleheart]

And you think playing into their game of death is any better?

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[at least then I'm the one killing someone. grrrrrr]

...Surely there is an option that does not compromise our pride.

[telltaleheart]

...We'll just have to come up with something more creative.

[boxupallthebutterflies]

That's right. ...I still think we should be moving in the direction of "action", whether it is retaliation, or simply a counterweight as an offer.

DECISIONS

[telltaleheart]

"King" has been chosen to die.

"If you should like to invite us to teatime, we shall gladly offer our company."

OOC Difficulty: 1 on both counts.

[dramatispersonae]

I'm afraid that others have outbid you.

[and then water begins to flow into the cell, seeping between cracks in the walls and floor and rising quickly (there seems to be an invisible barrier stopping it from flowing out between the bars). If you've made a decision about who will die, then the surviving person will instinctively know that they can breathe the water just fine. Either way, you have about sixty seconds to put any plans for dying into action before the water reaches the top of the cell. Once the person who was meant to die has died, their body will disappear, the water will recede and the door will swing open. Stepping through it will cause the survivor to find himself or herself in the Ring.]

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[...TURNING TO RAVEN]

--Die, King. If you succeed you ought to be able to breathe.

[telltaleheart]

... R-Right. [very unsure-looking at the water]

...King is dead. I took him out myself. I'm Raven.

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[...staring at him...]

And so?

[telltaleheart]

[looking a little more panicked]

...I don't think that worked...

[boxupallthebutterflies]

...Hmph. I should have known. You're not a very respectful person, are you, you near-sighted witch...

[picking up the knife]

Sorry, I don't have the skills to make this painless.

[telltaleheart]

...That's fine.

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[at least I'll try to slice your jugular]

[telltaleheart]

[Well it works much better than a stab to the heart.

Makes a bloody choked noise, before collapsing slowly into the water and eventually disappearing]

[boxupallthebutterflies]

[hmph. wiping the blade clean on her hands and leaving]