vivarium | 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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"...Do you happen to know if he only quarantines them, or cures them?" He would hope for the latter, but given it's Calhoun, it's hard to say if he would go through the effort to ensure healthy subjects or simply allow them to rot.

Heiji shook his head. "Don't know for sure, since we're not allowed outside or wherever he takes 'em. If it's a virus, though, no real way to cure that, anyway. What I do know is it's been 10 days since Kaburagi-han got carted off, and he ain't back."

"Ten days..."

Assuming they were indeed quarantined, that's a while to be out. He wonders how the other guy managed to recover so quickly in comparison.

...But wait. If they had been losing people all this time...

"...Hey. When people are quarantined, what happens with the groups?" That should have made the numbers uneven for the puzzle rooms. Given he had arrived alone, and right after a death of all things...

"Look, don't feel bad about it, okay?" said Heiji, looking a little concerned about Sasuke.

"It ain't your fault you got kidnapped, and if it wasn't you, it'd be someone else. 'pparently, they got a whole bunch of people waiting in the wings just in case something happens to one of us."

Somehow, he doesn't look much happier at the thought. His gaze shifts to the floor as he becomes unable to look Heiji in the eye.

"...Did I replace her?"

In hindsight, it should have been obvious. He was brought in alone, and yet the teams remained even. Everyone he had spoken to that first day informed him, one way or another, that one of the other test subjects had recently died. But he had been so busy trying to take it all in that he never quite made the connection.

WELP. Might as well tell the truth. Heiji nodded. "Yeah, ya did. But like I said, you ain't responsible for what happened to her."

Hopefully, he didn't take this too hard...

Now why on earth would he do that? Just as Heiji had pointed out, it has absolutely nothing to do with him. He just happened to be the unlucky person grabbed in her stead, that's all.

...And yet, he feels chilled by the very idea. He knows there isn't any expectation - couldn't be, really - that he would have been any sort of actual replacement for that girl. But nevertheless, a life was lost, and he was the one Calhoun had dragged in to take her place even as the others were still mourning.

The others had been uneasy when they first spoke with him. It's only too clear why.

After a short moment of silence, he finally speaks again, his voice even quieter than the norm. "...Sorry."

Whether it's for their loss, or being forced to act as a weak stand-in, not even he's certain.

Heiji smiled a little, but there was a subdued edge to it that wasn't usually there. "You're a good kid, ain't ya? But you don't need to apologize to me."

He shoved his hands in his pockets. "So c'mon, let's go back to the others and see how everyone else is doing. We gotta stick together, right?"

He honestly has no answer to that. It's not like he can remember anything about himself. But... saying that much just seemed right - or at the very least, the most correct action.

"...Yeah. Alright." He doesn't look especially enthused, however. Really, part of him is tempted to just slink away right then and there and sort out how, exactly, he's supposed to feel about all of this, but... from what he knows of Heiji, he doesn't think it's much of a viable option at the moment.

Maybe the next time he isn't looking...

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