Vio
Female
21
September 7
MAUVILLE CITY, HOENN
Bi
Spectra Trainee
Associate
CYBERCHASE CONUNDRUM (EVENT)
POSTED ON Aug 23, 2022 17:06:00 GMT
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This time, the loss was only Elaine’s. But Violet once more sought to squeeze the girl’s hand a bit, reassuringly, as if to reinforce her theory that this might all just be temporary after all. She certainly still believed that to be true. Yet, seeing the other lightly cry like this simply triggered her empathy. For this, the ranger-in-training could not help but want to reassure her, help her along. It did not seem like any words were necessary in that regard, since they had all been said, but if she caught the other’s eyes she would give a simple, yet meaningful nod before taking in what was happening around them. After all, the whole cataclysmic scene played out – neutered by her by then being quite convinced that it was a simulation at best, not the real thing, even if it felt similar – their answers were taken and judged correct and, well, there was another complication.
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Of course there was. And of course he did not give them any time to think and grasp their current situation before throwing them around like the dolls he seemed to think them as. “You would think an apparent higher being had more patience,” she grumbled to herself while he spewed some more, well, nonsense. Sure, it sounded as if it made sense at first. Until one gave it a second thought. Naturally, her mind did not target the lore or the specific rules that might be in play or anything like that. Instead, she focused on the person, his motives, and how that did not make sense.
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All while the people around her started to jump the gun immensely. Which, certainly, was something this man at least wished to encourage. Bastard. Elaine did seek to speak some reason to the others, but she seemed to employ somewhat similar methods. Mina furrowed her brows when she thought about the Nash Equilibrium. It certainly was one. But it was not a stable one. It had some strokes of a prisoner’s dilemma, at least in one direction. If everyone did step into the light then the last person had an optimal choice not to. Because that way, they survived either way. And since the person going before them would have the same optimal play, it reverse induction would suggest that only ten would still go.[break][break]
But the other probably knew that. This was not about academics, this was about convincing the others that it would indeed be the correct choice. And that was something she could do her part with.
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“Elaine is right. This is all kinds of fishy. We can’t all be brought back at once, but he wouldn’t just want to stagger the return? Plus, it can’t be that much more difficult to return us than to draw us in, especially given everything else that happened. And as for the dark triad deception, that is pointless too. If they are observing this, then they would not be deceived by that. And if they are not observing, then the deception itself is useless. No, this has to be a trap or another test. Just stepping into the light and accepting his words is the most foolhardy thing one could do.” For once, the strange woman that pretended to be her opposite nodded in agreement. Odd.
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"That doesn't sound right. Did I forget something...?" The man pondered; as he could not recall his failures, much of what had occurred within the cloud remained obscured to him.
