We're at a crossroads here maybe we should compromise

[ceasetoexist]

Alright, so since Pokey got roped in to being part of team dumbass and managed to unlock the door to the basement, we've run into one last snag.

I'm going to be blunt: I'm not sure if this is a bluff or not. Considering the character of Admin and how much that character seems to be sure character motivations couldn't be benevolent, I'm tempted to believe the Admin may be truthful. But I don't know. Regardless, I'm NOT against having this be a major mess up and Pokey having to deal with the aftermath of it if it is. At the same time, on an OOC level, I don't want what chances people think we could have be ruined by this. Bluff or not, at this moment I'm considering this way too big a choice for me to make as a single player.

So I'm hoping to get some feedback here. OOCly, what do you guys think? Should this even be chanced at all, or do we cut it off straight here?

Comments

[lapidarius]

i say fuck it and let's go, we've gotten this far

[relaxfriend]

I said it on Discord but yeah I'm for going forward. My reasoning is that I don't think this path would be THE BAD PATH WITH NO HOPE WHATSOEVER. It just might have been the harder one of multiple paths. There is probably a high chance we're boned if we go forward but there's got to be a chance we come out of this okay as well, because that makes more sense from an OOC standpoint. It might be a very SMALL chance and we might have to trigger something specific but I don't think going forward is all hopeless.

So yeah i'm with Nao fuck it lets go

[screwballkoopa]

My vote is also for YOLO

[loveedition]

I do legit think that we should probably head in. It's not so much that I don't think that we'd wind up setting off the witches-- in fact, it's probably hella likely that we would. Given the theme of the dungeon and the event thus far, it's been all centered around sacrificing the needs of many over the few that we care about.

Think of it this way. The carrying capacity of the magi in Nyoi-cho is one. This obviously isn't confirmed in any way, but I theorize that the person behind the Institute is a magi who could potentially see every other magi as a threat and is growing ever-so-frustrated at the idea of more and more magi piling in. After all, Hoshiko Ohka inspires others to become magi, and thus-- drives them more to death.

We did Nothing and wound up killing the seventeen strangers, said it's False that We All Die Alone, and Silenced the Baby when that option came. The final option came when that Nothing became Pulling the Lever to let the one family member die. Even in this case, we offered to end the life of Kagaku Yamashita in exchange for Hoshiko and Miki's safety.

I feel like though we did vote to save one over the other, we absolutely need to proceed. It's probably sacrificing the two Chusei-shi magi to save the rest of the playerbase (despite a potential two-witch based attack) but it's probably the best choice.

[crosslaced]

I......... don't know, so I'm not going to vote on this. But some thoughts:

1) If we do go ahead, imo we should face the likelihood that we PROBABLY will lose both rather than save both. Stats ain't in our favour.

2) The dungeon has rewarded magi for sacrificing a few to save many. Going on is in line with that... but idk if we're supposed to play along with what the dungeon is encouraging. You decide

3) ????????? ? ? ???????

4) maybe there're no good end and we're fucking ourselves over

[oathshackledbird]

We're doing IC voting now, so I am not sure if this is still really relevant, but I am rather torn on the whole thing. Much like Abdul, I really want to know what will happen if our resolve holds out, however on the other hand, I very much fear the results should the likely thing happen and we lose both of the magi.

Whatever we end up doing, I'm just going to buckle in and go along on the ride. It's been wild so far and I don't doubt it's going to continue!