vivarium | ambidex voting #7

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 do get two cans of food and 15 coins for each person, what, you have a problem with it being the same as last time? We're busy over here, quit your bellyaching.

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 two cans of food and a memory! We're switching it up a bit. 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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"Didn't do anything." She sounds sulkier this time. "Just a headache. Why're you so tall?"

Kuzuryuu was actually surprised by that. Being called tall was not something he was used to. "Eh-? B-because you're on the floor?" He had to take a moment to recover from that.

"You should... probably get up, y'know. You have enough BP to get actual medical supplies." Or, probably actual medical supplies. That had yet to be determined, but that was what he'd been told.

She carefully pats the space next to her. "Maybe you should just lie down. It's a nice floor." In fact, she can't remember many that are better, though to be fair, most of her memory is fairly fuzzy right now. "The rat can't be trusted," she adds.

"Well, no he can't but-" Kuzuryuu was starting to get kind of concerned with Ema's behavior, despite himself.

"Are you sure this is just a headache?"

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Pshh, well, if he's not going to lie on the ground (completely recommended, by the way), she'll lever herself up to a sitting position and give him a serious stare. "Traumatic brain injury."

"...Traumatic brain injury?!" Kuzuryuu's voice rose in volume again, sorry about that, Ema.

"Then you definitely need to get some kind of treatment. What the hell are you hanging around here for?"

"Urg, fine, call 911 for me." The intensity of this sick burn was lessened as she winced and grabbed her head. "Look...Just gotta wait it out."

"Fine, sure, wait it out then," Kuzuryuu answered, but he wasn't leaving, even though it kind of looked as though he wanted to. Ema was making his life very difficult. You weren't supposed to leave someone with a brain injury alone, right?

After about 30 seconds or so of waffling, he sighed heavily before taking a seat on the floor next to her. "...I'm just gonna sit here until your dumb ass gets up off the ground. It probably wouldn't be good for anyone if you died of your head trauma 'cause you fell asleep or something."

She shrugged. "Figure they'd take the corpse before you guys Donner Party." Maybe they wouldn't and she'd become a disease vector. That'd be gross, Calhoun was such a dick. "...Anyway, don't talk smack about sleep. Sleep's a true friend."

He did have a point, however, so at length she comes up with a new topic. "How was your room?"

"I... don't think anyone here's hungry enough for that." Kuzuryuu gave her an uncertain glance. Was this just Ema's natural sense of humor or the brain damage talking?

"Went alright. Better than... last time. No knives shooting out from the walls." Always a good sign for a puzzle room. "Guessing yours didn't go so great?"

"Not so much, no." She grimaces. "Before you ask, wasn't my fault. Not even a little." She will leave it to Kuzuryuu to lay blame on her idiot teammates (or not, whatever) himself.

"Which room'd you do?"

"Are you saying it's Layton's fault?" Fortunately for him Kuzuryuu was not yet familiar with Jake's brand of puzzle solving, and being more familiar with Hershel that was his immediate thought. "What happened? Was there a puzzle where you had to be rude and he couldn't handle it?"

He frowned at the question. "The Theater. Pretty morbid little play we had to put on in here."

"That, exactly that," she laughs; that'd be amazing. Who could even be angry about getting clocked due to Hershel's lack of skill at insults? "You know, those Calhoun screens've got bombs in 'em. Might wanna add that to the court record."

And the theater, huh... "Guessing you didn't try to vandalize backstage, huh."

"Seriously?" Kuzuryuu asked, simultaneously kind of amused and annoyed. "Zero really has a taste for hidden bombs, doesn't he?" That was going to get marked down in the court record. No destroying screens, no matter how annoying Calhoun was.

He shook his head. "Nah, nobody decided to break the glass case or anything dumb like that. Why, your group trip the traps when you were there?"

"Let's say my group was on strike. The random vandalization-type of strike." Her memory of the incident is a little fuzzy but to be honest she is actually just fine with that. "Basically, never touch anything."

"Being dumbasses, you mean," Kuzuryuu corrected. "What'd even be the point in doing that? Couldn't you break the puzzle and end up getting stuck in there?" And that would be fun for everyone, no doubt.

"You also get gassed." As if that is something anyone would want. "Think Hershel put everything back together, though."

"I'm not saying I'm surprised he fixed it or anything - he's good at puzzles - but how'd he manage to do that with something that was already screwed up?" Kuzuryuu asked. Admittedly, that'd be a useful skill to have.

"The lightbulbs were intact. And I guess he figured out a substitute for mannequin arms. He was gassed less than us. But he's a clever kid." She pauses, leaning back further. "...Don't try it. You'll mess up your suit."

"Wasn't planning on it. And, anyway, I think it's too late to be worrying about the suit." The thing was pretty cut up from Kuzuryuu's adventure in the gallery. Besides, he didn't think he'd be able to put a puzzle back together in the first place.

"Sounds like that room was a complete disaster for you guys. Do all your rooms go that badly?"

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