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ambidex voting #8

A M B I D E X V O T I N G

Chop chop, everyone downstairs to the first floor! You're all done the puzzle rooms, so you know what to do. Well, most of you, but it's pretty basic, just enter any Ambidex Room you like (they're not elevators, you ignorant test subjects) then vote! How does voting work? Very simple! Pick Ally or Betray, and that's it! But with every round, there's always some prizes, depending on what you vote, so here's this rounds:

For anyone who chooses Ally, well, if your opponent chooses Ally as well, then 2BP for each of you. You get all that friendship, blah blah, whatever.

For anyone who chooses Betray, and gets a Betray in return, your BP doesn't change at all, but you might get some coins for your trouble, let's saaaay, 20? Generous, I know.

Now, the best part: for anyone who chooses Betray and their opponent chooses Ally, Calhoun will be very generous with his prizes, again! You'll get 15 coins and a memory! Also, as usual, those who pick Betray get 3BP instead of just 2.

But if you're the poor sap that chose Ally and got stabbed in the back, well, sorry, you lose 2 BP. At least you got stabbed for the greater good, right? And plus, you might get a little something. He'll talk to you later about it.

But anyway, happy voting! Calhoun will see all of you later with the results.

BASIC INFO ✖ VOTES + FORMS ✖ RESULTS + REACTIONS

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"That's not what I'm talkin' about!" said Heiji. "Look, you stabbed Zelos because Calhoun said ya had to. Then you voted Ally because you felt ya had to. That time with Simon, too -- I figured you were just hidin' that cut because you ain't trust me or something, but you did it to keep from upsetting Simon, didn't you?"

"This is your life we're talking about! You're not gonna get another one. Everyone else is trying their best to keep going -- you really okay just sittin' back and letting things happen to you? You're important, too, you know! You dunno who's waiting on the outside, worried about you!"

His head dips slightly with a small frown when Heiji mentions the cut. Perhaps unconsciously, he gives his hand a few tentative flexes. He hadn't really wanted to give the impression of distrust then but... He hadn't wanted to worry the others, either.

It's only once Heiji's finished speaking that he quickly shoots back: "Besides a brother I tried to stab, too." He's sure that one went over well, no matter what the context was.

"...It's fine. I don't plan to die, but I can survive with what I have already. There shouldn't be a problem with that, right?" Hershel had brought it up before; the low chances of any of them really being able to escape once they had enough points to open the number nine door. He wasn't in any particular hurry to earn points - losing a couple wasn't much of a concern, either.

Heiji sighed, lifted his cap off of his head, and scrubbed a hand through his hair. "Yeah, besides him. I admit I don't know what the story behind that is.

"It's just... sooner or later, I think you're going to have to make a choice, and it's going to be even harder than this one. You might need to choose between two people, or something even worse. And you might not be able to just make up for it by givin' up a few BP.

"If it was me, I'd wanna own every decision that I made in here. Because if I ever do hurt someone, then that person deserves to know that I did it for a reason -- 'cause I did what I thought was right.

"...Anyway, I don't know what happened to you or your brother, but I think you deserve just as much as the rest of us."

"...The others might not agree with that." Even without counting Zelos, he's pretty sure Clive still hates him after the thing with Snake. And given what kind of a game they're all participating in, that's a whole issue in of itself.

He huddles in his spot, still frankly uneasy about everything, even if it shows up muted at best from what can be seen his expression. "If I have to make a choice, I'll... figure something out." Who knows; maybe he really will have the courage to go for Calhoun one day.

"Yeah, well," said Heiji, settling back down on his tree branch and somehow managing to lean almost full-body against it, like it was a damn hammock or something. "That's their opinion. A life is a life."

He let out a quick puff of air that was not quite a laugh. "Man. I really had you pegged wrong. So why'd you stab Yuusuke, anyway? You get in a fight?"

"...I have no idea. That's just what Calhoun said when I asked for a truth the first time." He should probably take it with a grain of salt, and he does realize that, but the combination of everything that's been happening recently concerning knives has him on edge. He'd tried to deny it while he was in the room, but... was it really so impossible that he could have pulled a knife on Yuusuke at some point?

"What, so he ain't even have proof?" Heiji seemed outright offended by this idea. "What kind of lazy accusation is that? At least back when he was blackmailin' half of the people here, he had some kind of evidence like they actually did what he was saying. Even if it was probably cherry-picked."

He half thought about telling Sasuke about that ridiculous mud Calhoun had slung at Hershel, only he'd promised not to, no matter how ridiculous it was. "Well, I guess the take-home is to pick 'truth', huh? Wonder what he's gonna come up with for me."

Maybe one time Heiji had seen a granny about to cross the street, and he hadn't offered to help her. HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER

"That's what I was trying to do. Hopefully yours will go better." Sasuke really isn't stupid enough to give Calhoun a chance to order him around, but... Calhoun is also a dirty little cheater, go figure.

"-He actually showed you evidence back then?"

"Yeah," said Heiji. "But I promised not to tell anyone about the specifics, so if you wanna know those, you gotta ask around yourself. I'd say the evidence was.... hmm. I guess it was convincing enough that you might believe it if it was presented to you personally. But it was secondhand at best. Wouldn't hold up in any court."

In other words, it wasn't good enough for Heiji.

"...Even if I asked, it doesn't sound like something most people would want to talk about." It's still up in the air how many people will still trust him after this stunt, too; it's probably best not to push it right now.

Heiji just gave Sasuke a look. Come on, dude, where was your DETECTIVE SPIRIT? "It ain't like someone's gonna bite your head off. I'll ask for ya, then, see if they're okay talkin' to you about it. Worst they can say is no."

He's a ninja, not a detective, he doesn't do the asking thing!! He just sneaks around and overhears stuff.

"...You don't have to do that. It's fine." Just like how everything else is perfectly fine and dandy, yep.

"It's not fine, and I'm gonna ask!" Thanks for cementing Heiji's determination there, Sasuke. "Maybe this way it'll put things into perspective a little more. No guarantees, though; I mean, like ya said, they might not want to speak up."

Unlike Heiji, who was... yeah, pretty open with everything. "You're not gonna do anything like skip meals just in case you run into either of the two of them, are ya?"

Heiji, why you gotta do this. He's perfectly okay with staying up in this comfy tree for the rest of the game, too far away to stab anyone ever again.

"...No, I won't." Tempting as it is. But at this rate, Heiji's going to be keeping an eye on him, and he doesn't want to kick up more of a fuss than he already has. He'll just have to stick to the far edges and eat quickly.

"Okay, good," said Heiji, who was probably going to be keeping an eye on Sasuke at this rate no matter what his answer was. Because living your life in a tree was no life at all! UNACCEPTABLE.

"Y'know, this ain't what I was coming to talk to you about at all."

Oh. Well.

"Sorry for distracting you, then."

"That," said Heiji. "See, that right there is what I was gonna talk about. I was gonna come over and ask you if I was annoyin' ya. It's pretty hard to tell with you, since you ain't show a whole lot on your face."

--Huh? Whatever he thought Heiji wanted to talk about, that clearly wasn't it.

"You don't annoy me." Did he... really come off that way?

"That so?" Heiji paused for a moment, as if trying to decide whether Sasuke was telling the truth or not, but it was like basically impossible so...

"Okay, I'll take your word for it. Guess that's about all I wanted to ask, so... don't spend all day hiding up here."

"Really. ...Sorry if it looked like I was annoyed." ...Maybe something is wrong with his face? How do you look not-annoyed when you haven't even been annoyed in the first place.

"Mm. I'll drop by the cafeteria later." Just... not quite yet.

Heiji hopped down from the tree. "Ain't a problem. Just practice on that smile or somethin'. Like this, see?"

He flashed his teeth in a quick grin. Heiji smiled a lot, so it was basically second nature to him. TRY IT, SASUKE.

Um.

"Like... right now?" Forgive him, he's not in a very smiley mood at the moment.

"Not if you don't want to," said Heiji. "But try it out. I'll check on ya later."

Was that a threat (yes). In any case, it was now time for Heiji to track someone else down. He waved at Sasuke as he left the garden.

That was totally a threat. He nods somewhat warily. "...I'll remember it for later. See you."

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