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[network] @hotstud_xxx; Night 112 [text]

[He needs to do some damage control on his image, not to mention drag his own mind away from the fact that he's done very little in the past few days to stop people doing things that are going to get them killed. So, what better way than being a nuisance?]

good evening and welcome, ladies, gentlemen and goat-things
to snowhell's first edition of the most eligible bachelor
our contestant tonight?
you know him as that guy who rhymes with man-pain
kain!

ladies (or guys)
for tonight only
we're showing an exclusive pic
get a peek under the hood and decide if you want the junk in that trunk

call in now to ask questions about our bachelor
and bid on him
heard someone's got condoms
might wanna keep em handy

[And to go along with this nonsense, there's an attached PNG. kman.png]

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so that's you saying you're not gonna answer
that's comforting, c3po
how about i tell everyone i'm a cyborg?
we can see how that goes down first

I can. I just am not your puppet to use. That was more relevant.

If you want to, go ahead. I don't see what purpose it would serve, considering you have no proof to back up your claim and no suspicions against your humanity. You have also died previously and have witnesses to completely normal bodily reactions at your murder.

Edited 2016-05-01 06:59 (UTC)

you're somebody's puppet, though
somebody you don't want the kid to know about
who is it?

and did i mention the empty suit of armor bleeding?
previous form doesn't mean much here

I can't tell you that.

You're talking about Alphonse, right? Yes, I saw the videos after you were killed. He was bleeding, as though there were a body underneath his armor. I had suspected something wasn't as it should be when he wouldn't let me treat his wounds later, when he and America intercepted the Joker downtown, but I didn't know specifically what it could have been.

can't or won't?

Can't. I'm not authorized to share the information you requested.

how do you know the kid?

[There's more than one way to skin a cat. He'll just have to get at what he wants the roundabout way.]

We were both participants in a project called the Nonary Game. Quark was brought into the facility with his grandfather, where both were put into the game against their will. My own participation was part of my orders.

what's the nonary game?

The Nonary Game was a series of puzzles and decision games involving a total of nine people. The goal of the Nonary Game was to escape the confines of the game, through the number nine door, which a player could only do by gaining a certain number of points. A player could only gain points by voting certain ways in a decision game, and could only participate in a decision game by solving puzzles. This would repeat in an undetermined amount of rounds until at least one player opened the number nine door and escaped.

Anyone left behind after the number nine door closed would be sealed in, likely for the rest of their lives. Failure to participate, to follow given rules, or to keep one's points above zero at any time would result in a player being penalized and, eventually, being killed as a result.

Edited 2016-05-01 07:45 (UTC)

[What... the actual hell?]

let's go with
why was the nonary game set up in the first place?
reality tv getting boring in the future?

No, it wasn't that sort of game.

The Nonary Game itself was merely part of a larger project altogether.

[It's said simply, as though that would explain enough.]

[You're becoming less cute by the minute, Luna.]

the larger project being...?

I'm not authorized to tell you.

screw that bullshit
the person you're working for put a little kid in a freaking murder game

[She hasn't actually said that she's working for the one running the Nonary Game, but it's something of a way to get around her refusal to say who she is working for. Confirmation or denial will mean something.]

In technical terms, they didn't. Quark could have stayed behind from the beginning. It was his grandfather who received the invitation, and he was the one who decided to bring Quark along.

Those that were running the project knew this would be the case. Quark still needed to be there for the project to succeed.

and let me guess
what's so special about him is something you're not authorized to tell me?
did the invitation tell gramps he was dragging his kid into a murder game?
figured most people would be over that crap
aren't you guys living in the apocalypse?

I don't know.

Really, I don't. I'm sorry. I don't know the contents of what his grandfather was asked, or what made either of them integral to the project itself, other than that their specific presence was needed for it to succeed.

For lack of a better description... yes, I suppose the world is currently in an apocalyptic state. Has Quark told you about it? I can try to fill in the blanks, if you want.

nuclear winter
radical-6
i got the highlights

i'm more interested in the fact that you're following orders that contradict the first law
you were actively participating in a game where people might die
unless the kid's a robot too so he doesn't matter

I'm... aware.

[There's a sudden strain in her voice.]

I... didn't want to do what I was asked to do. I even voiced my discomfort with the measures that were being taken.

But to go against my orders would mean permanent deletion, and my participation was ultimately necessary.

why?
why did they need you to participate?

I was to observe the actions of the other players, ensure they did what they were supposed to do, and guide them down the correct paths.

Like all of the other players, my individual presence was crucial for the project to succeed.

I wasn't given any other information, other than that.

correct paths for what?
were you trying to get everyone out or only some of them?

The correct paths for the game.

The former. I was to help all players exit through the number nine door, without any player being penalized, killed, or left behind.

I... was also not allowed to be forceful in doing so. So wrong decisions were a high statistical possibility. Should wrong answers occur or wrong paths be taken, I was to keep following my orders to the best of my ability until the inevitable end of the game.

so you'd let people die
"necessary evil"
and you're used to working for the people running a screwed up game
and lying about it
and participating while lying

kinda makes a guy suspicious, sailor moon

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