vivarium | ambidex voting #6

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. Then you'll also get those lovely-dovely butterfly feelings of friendship, blah blah. Well, that's it!

For anyone who chooses Betray, and gets a Betray in return, your BP doesn't change at all, but you do get two cans of food and 15 coins for each person, so that's something.

Now, here's the fun part: for anyone who chooses Betray and their opponent chooses Ally, Calhoun will be very generous with his prizes. You'll get two cans of food and a medical kit! He knows that some of you here really needs one, with how awful you are at puzzles or just plain dumb, so he'll give one med kit full of things that you need! If you're a SOLO, you get one for yourself. If you're a PAIR, well, you'll have to share one, but at least this is better than nothing. 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.

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You're probably the only one he has like that, Heiji, you're a champion. He smiled. "Thank you Heiji, I- well, I appreciate the sentiment."

And yeah, he rubbed his arm with a soft sigh. "It doesn't make sense to let us go, with memories or without. It's risky, even if we didn't remember anything we're still evidence out in the world. I can't... I can't imagine Zero would be foolish enough to take such a pointless risk."

He glanced back to Heiji, frowning. "That means we really must find our own way out. It might even be better to not reach 63 BP, for all we know it's a death sentence."

Heiji smiled at him. "No problem."

"So I think what we really gotta start doing is investigating the warehouse, right? Or wherever we got access to right now. Trying to think of a way out, at least. Even being able to locate some place where they can't see us would be a good start."

"Blind spots..." Hershel paused, obviously deep in thought. That was a puzzle in a way, wasn't it? Figuring out the range of the cameras, figuring out their positions, finding out if the moved or any were hidden, calculating the range of sight vs obstructions. Puzzles. 50/50 Picarats.

"That may be possible, though there are so many variables... You realize we'd need to test the blind spots if we figured them out, do something that would garner their attention to see just how blind they are. It could be dangerous."

"Yeah, and there's a problem with the camera thing, too," said Heiji crossing his arms. "I mean, even if we find the right spots, there's always the possibility that people will use them for..." He trailed off.

"Well, maybe there's no point in worrying about that. Sure didn't stop whoever hurt Akiko. Anyway, I figure I'd be pretty good at finding cameras, but... what could we do to test their attention? I ain't real keen on getting electrocuted, and too many tests would probably make them suspicious."

Hershel frowned, Heiji had a point. "You're right, it may be prudent we keep this between ourselves if we do find it, unless it becomes something the others should know for their own safety. If anything it might encourage people to do dangerous or rule bending things." He was worried a lot about that along with, you know, possible murder.

And that was the hard question. Hershel frowned and put a hand to his chin as he thought it over. "It'd have to be something they'd without a doubt make comment on if they saw it- Calhoun, more so. The best I can think of would be something that bends an unspoken rule without breaking any of the rules, such as Snake when he stole food for Clive."

He dropped his arm as he continued, brow furrowed. "Honestly I'm not so sure what that could be. This is also only assuming they can't hear what we're saying now. If they can then it's likely they'll ignore it just so we think we have some sort of advantage."

Heiji couldn't help laughing a little at the ridiculousness of it all. "But ya know, if they ignore whatever it is we're doing, then how'll we know if it's a real blind spot or just one they're letting us think is legit?

"Plus, we wouldn't be able to make it obvious that that's what we were looking for. I mean, if they notice us goin' around staring at all the cameras, that's gonna be a problem, too."

Lollerskates, being constantly monitored was so much fun.

This was ridiculous, they are spies. Hershel paused a moment before saying slowly and quietly. "What if we talked about a puzzle room the other hadn't been in. They couldn't ignore that, could they? But that might be a bit dangerous..." Was that even an unspoken rule or a very much written one?

He sighed, smiling because yeah this was ridiculous. "Honestly no matter what we do it's going to be a risk, what a mess of 'they'll let us think this while we let them think that.'" Life was seriously a spy movie. Or Death Note.

Heiji laughed, "Yeah, that should get their attention. I got an idea for a way we can keep track of the locations where we find the cameras, too. Since we're bein' watched and all, ain't it make sense to note it down in code?"

And let's face it who better to come up with a code than these nerds.

Hershel brightened at that because yeah, code could work. You're absolutely right, if anyone could come up with a dumb, hard code it's these fools.

"That's brilliant, Heiji. We'll have to make sure it's not too obviously a code, or else Calhoun and Zero will certainly try to crack it and keep a closer eye out. We'll have to keep it hidden in the mundane."

Heiji grinned widely. "And there's one other thing -- it should be a code that we can figure out without ever talkin' about it."

That's right, Heiji wanted to develop this code without ever discussing it in words, because of course someone might be listening. Pointlessly hard challenge? MAYBE. But just the effort that went into thinking one up was almost as rewarding as the end project itself. And could it not be said that codes were basically puzzles?

That sounded so very difficult but so very fun in it's own way. Hershel smiled back because you know what, challenge 100% accepted. He already had a few ideas on how to make that happen.

"That sounds like quite the challenge." A puzzle, if you will. "But I think I can manage if you can." Strangely a little competitive again?? You bring out the worst or possible best in him, depending on who you ask.

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