thefoundation | Week 1, Saturday

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round 4

Week 1, Saturday

This whole post contains a blanket CONTENT WARNING for gallows and hanging imagery.

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[Once again, right at noon, the Contestants are invited to the studio to participate in another exciting game. The set has changed entirely since the last time they were there, with the mountain climber game replaced by a large board of some sort. Several prinnies are near it, carrying large cards with random letters written on them. It seems as though they might be helping out for this game. But there is something else off to the side too...(CW: gallows)

As always, Dazai is there, waiting on stage for everyone to sit down. He's dressed in his usual black suit getup, but his smile seems a bit forced today.]

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They're just going to keep changing the rules until they get us to do what they want!

This is something you must come to accept, Silver. It's never about good or evil. The Foundation has one purpose above all others: "Secure. Contain. Protect."- they will get the outcome they want for the sake of this world above all else. Morals are not part of the equation and never will be.

You must play on their field- otherwise, you will be crushed.

We can still do everything we can to prevent it.

[Her voice trembles, but she refuses to back down.]

Of course. But you must be willing to bend to the rules you are playing under. Screaming to the gods over the unfairness won't do anything

Protect who, though?

[Leo's almost shouting. He's definitely shaking.]

Just the ones high up enough to avoid all this shit?!

Humanity as a whole. The few hundred of us 6350s, the two dozen of us here today? Such a small number is well within acceptable losses. Wouldn't you say?

... no. Not when they have to trick us to do it. If they treated us like actual people and asked, most of us would agree to help. It's no different than joining the military, but at least there they do their best to save even the lowest-ranking soldier!

I wouldn't.

Yeah, I've seen these kind of assholes before. Protect society, but fuck people, you know?

Yeah, well, their field sucks and SOMEBODY'S goin' to crush it sooner or later.

[He's not here about good or evil he's just here to beat things up what do you want.]

Unless you have an alternative I wouldn't suggest it.

Don't tell me you're totally into their stupid way of running things.

I could care less. I am only speaking from an outside view: as satisfying as it would be to tear the entire group apart, would you be willing to handle all the SCPs this world spawns without it?

Yell all you want about how you hate it, but unless you have a way to solve it, it's what we have.

Edited 2019-06-29 20:19 (UTC)

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houndumb - 2019-06-29 23:20 (UTC) - Expand

It's so dumb!! If they thought we were dangerous, if they thought we needed to be destroyed... why not just do it?! Why all this foolishness with a "game"?! They're not fooling anyone! Just what are they trying to prove?!

[he's not really asking Ingway -- he's just venting his frustration into the ether]

You should be grateful for this cruel 'Game' Silver- you'd be dead today otherwise.

Edited 2019-06-29 20:03 (UTC)

[he mumbles something under his breath -- maybe that would be better]

[He gives him a soft, empathic look. He feels you there kiddo]

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iblistriggered - 2019-06-29 20:09 (UTC) - Expand

Maybe they just wanna make us suffer?? Gameshows are for entertainment, duh.

[There's a snarl but also a smirk on Nora's face.]

Just means we're gettin' a chance to dismantle their whole stupid game in front of them! They're going to regret ever setting us up!!

Torture isn't funny or entertaining to me.

Yeah, well, there's plenty of humans and demons and everything that think it's fun, else we wouldn't be here or anything. An' this is an SCP so I bet even the House thinks it's fun. Whatever.

[Does the House think it's fun, though.]

Doesn't matter what we think. It just matters what we do!

[ time to be a petty shit ]

I have to admit...

'Crushed' is a strange way to say we'll come out on top.

[Ingway snorts]

Gods, I miss being that young.

[You're like, 5 years his senior, Ingway]

Why give them the satisfaction of ever believing they've worn us down?

If I die here, it will be while giving all I have and protecting what's most important to me.

Besides, it's my personal goal to make them regret picking someone as stubborn as I am.

Edited 2019-06-29 20:12 (UTC)

[Karen raises an imaginary glass in a toast.]

[Silver hears that...

then nods to himself]

.... Right.

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