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ambidex voting #5

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

Everyone (besides one newbie) should know how things work by now: you leave your respective puzzle rooms, head downstairs to the first floor, swipe your Ambidex Room cards, and enter your elevator. Now, this is where it gets different, because here's your prizes for this round!

For anyone who chooses Betray, and gets betrayed in return, well you get a nice can of food! What kind inside? That's a surprise! Oh, and 15 coins for each person.

As for anyone who chooses Betray and their opponent chooses Ally, well, the reward is always much bigger! Calhoun toss in three cans of food, for those poor saps who don't have access to the cafeteria yet, and along with 50 whole coins, each for a PAIR! Amazing! That just might be enough to put some of you in a nice comfy spot where you can start buying food or amazing goodies in Calhoun's Corner: Sundries and Collectibles for the Discerning Test Subject. Isn't that just great?

For anyone who chooses Ally, well, if your opponent chooses Ally as well, then you'll just get the usual BP increase. How boring, but at least you can be all lovely-dovely with each other.

If you're the poor sap that chose Ally and got stabbed in the back, well, sorry, you only lose BP, but you might get a little something. He'll find you later about that.

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

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"I suppose... I still get the feeling you're far too used to this, Heiji." Hershel was defeated, Heiji would be Heiji. He couldn't help a small smile. "You know, for all the bad of this I am glad we got to meet. I doubt I would have ever met someone as, ah... exciting as you." That's actually a compliment, believe it or not.

"Oh, I meant to ask, how did your room go?"

He smiled. "Bet you're right! I'm one of a kind!" In more ways than one, of course. "I ain't met anyone like you, either -- I think -- so we're even."

"Anyway, the room didn't go too badly. It was a little creepy, but no one got hurt. I guess that's the best scenario in this place."

Hershel shook his head, so confident. He'd be jealous if he wasn't too preoccupied being amused. "I'm glad to hear it."

"It is at this point... I was worried you may be short handed without Clive to really help, and with Snake..." He frowned. "I'm concerned, he really doesn't seem to be doing well. We need to get him something before it gets worse...."

Heiji frowned; he'd been worried about Snake, too, but they didn't have any painkillers -- just sedatives, and he was afraid that giving Snake too many of those was a bad idea.

"But what, though? You know we don't have access to medical supplies until later. I've been checking up on him, but..."

"If I get ally for the next two rounds I'll have enough for medical supplies. Until then I guess... we just have to do what we can to keep an eye on him." How useful a suggestion. He sighed.

"Make sure he's eating and hydrated, I guess that's the best we can do right now. I'm worried about Ema too, though. I'm not sure the medical supplies will be enough for both of them."

"Oh yeah, how's she doing?" asked Heiji. "She was real close-mouthed about it earlier. Snake said he ain't cut her too deep, but... how could he even be sure?"

At this rate, they should all be praying for Hershel's medical supplies.

"Well..." Hershel hesitated, unsure of how to answer that really. "She had a rough time in our puzzle room, so I'm concerned. She doesn't seem as bad as Snake but I can't imagine the pain she's probably in."

Worried worried, concerned concerned. Hopefully no one betrays him because otherwise Zelos was the only one who might get enough BP by the last round.

Heiji looked intensely annoyed. "Why's that Ema gotta be so pigheaded? You know, I asked her how she was doin', and she gave me this speech about how I could yell at her if she wanted but she wasn't sorry for what she did. Y'know, for someone who's supposed to be older than me, she and Jake and Li-- Snake are a bunch of bad decisions just waitin' to happen!"

GDI you guys

Hershel is torn between defending Ema and wholeheartedly agreeing with every word. He settles for a very long suffering sigh, because yeah. Just... yeah.

"Honestly I worry about Ema a lot- with Snake I think he was just... willing to take the risks, with Jake I think he doesn't want to admit he isn't invincible, but with Ema... I worry she doesn't treat herself with the same care she treats others. She's always telling me to stay out of all this trouble and keep my head down, to stay safe yet..."

Sigh. Sigh. "I hope she understands she's an irreplaceable part of our group."

And from Heiji, another long siiiigh. "Yeah, well, I hope so, too. I ain't holding out much hope, though. At least Snake seems to realize he was bein' a big blockhead."

"Well, I'm sure you had plenty of time to scold him in your room." Hershel's just vaguely amused, he's got your number dude. "I can't say I had the same chance with Ema, she seemed rather set on making bad decisions with Mr. Enjolras."

What a life. "Ah, that reminds me, I hope he's left the elevator by now..."

Shh Hershel no you didn't shh

Oh wait. "The elevator? Come to think of it, that guy was yellin' this and that about slavery or whatever when I saw him last. Even tried to follow me into the washroom when I was tryin' to wash off that pepper spray. What a nuisance!"

"He's... passionate." That's a nice way of putting it. "He told me he's trying to make a point by staying in the elevator. Frankly I'm concerned, the gas in our room hit him very hard, he had a terrible time of it."

French revolutionaries man. "I hope he knows what he's doing. Trying to agitate Zero and Calhoun could get him in real trouble."

"Yeah?" Heiji said, looking not so much concerned as annoyed. "Maybe he could devote some of that passion to not bein' such a blockhead. So what happened when he stayed in the elevator? They fill it back up with water or somethin'?"

"I don't really know, I suppose so... I haven't seen him since though, he told me he'd be fine and insisted I'd be fine leaving him be." Hershel frowned. "What do you think of him, Heiji? It looks like you aren't too fond of him." Understandably, Hershel didn't have a problem with Enjolras but he could see that the man was maybe a little too passionate.

"He's a loudmouthed, tone-deaf, arrogant moron who loves the sound of his own voice and wouldn't know a joke if it popped him one in the jaw," said Heiji, "...But who knows? Maybe he could be okay if you took all that out."

Um... damning with faint praise?

Okay Hershel can't help but smile at that, goodness Heiji. "Ah, I see I was right..." He said, amused. "I don't think he's so bad, he's just a little intense, you know?" Says the boy who liked Jake of all people. Patience level: saint.

And he mellowed a bit. "He's the only person to get sick like the others and come back... I wonder what that means."

"Sure, intense is one word for it." At the mention of the sickness, however, he frowned a little. "I don't know. I guess you could say Kariya was just a kid, and Colette was kinda delicate. But Aoi seemed pretty full of energy, and Kaburagi-han wasn't that old."

He sure would trade Enjolras for the others any day of the week, though.

Hershel paused a moment before his tone softened. "Heiji, I meant to ask, are you alright? I know I saw you and Colette around sometimes." He wasn't sure if they were close but they seemed closer than Heiji was with the other people who left, besides Akiko but that was a whole other matter. It had to hurt to see her go if he was.

"Aoi surprised me the most, yes, she seemed too energetic to suddenly succumb to something like this."

"...She was a real sweetheart," said Heiji, which was not actually an answer but in a way it sort of was. "She ain't deserve to have that happen to her, and I really hope she's okay."

There was no real way of telling, though, and after this long after Kotetsu had first come down with the illness, one had to be realistic...

Hershel watched him sadly for a moment- he liked Colette, she was a kind girl, but it did really seem like Heiji had taken a real shine to her. Again he wasn't much for physical contact but Heiji was a bit of an exception, so Hershel placed a hand on his shoulder, squeezed and offered a smile.

"If Mr. Enjolras came back there's still hope. We'll just have to do our best to find a way to help her if we can." He tried, and in a way he really did believe it somewhat at least. It was no use doing anything other than pushing forward and trying their best while any sliver of hope still remained. Enjolras coming back had to mean something, right? That it wasn't just a death sentence like he originally feared.

After a moment, Heiji reached up and put his hand on Hershel's opposite shoulder, then nodded. "Yeah, I know. You're right."

Which didn't really make the situation all that much better, but certainly there was no way that they could know if the people who had been removed were all right or not, so... sliver of hope, go?

"Kinda worried about how Clive's gonna react when he finds out about Aoi, too."

Better than hopeless despair, at least. Hershel smiled and let his hand drop, his expression with it when Clive was brought up.

"Yes... he and Aoi were certainly close." This was so rough, god damn. Maybe he'd try talking to Clive again after he woke up, maybe Clive would listen now. He shook his head. "I'm worried about his mental state, he's... been having a very rough time. and if he doesn't make it to nine BP by the end of these rooms...}

Heiji, however, did not drop his hand and instead moved in for one of those patented Shounen Side Hugs.

"Hey, it'll be okay! He'll get those remaining BP for sure -- bad luck never lasts forever, and we'll make sure he pulls through till then."

Heiji, the greatest shounen hero. It probably says a lot that Hershel doesn't seem too surprised or uncomfortable, he's gotten used to it. Friendship shounen side hugs weren't so bad, he's on his way to being a real anime protag.

"R-right, maybe he'll be willing to listen to me when he wakes up too." He looked a little determined. "I'm going to try talking to him again, Heiji, I think- well, just this time maybe he'll see I didn't want to betray him."

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