Event: infighting; Week One Voting & Week Two

[animusmods]

As seen here, on Friday morning everyone within the pods is taken out to the central meeting area. All powers are disabled and any attempts at physical attacks will be met with multiple retrieval drones. The results for week one are as follows:

Obedience: won by Dax, lost by Jason
Endurance: won by Jason, lost by Dax
Acclimation: won by Dax, lost by Riki
Point Totals: Dax: 2, Riki: 0, Jason: 1

As shown, each group lost one challenge, and therefore each group will be punished by voting off one of their members. The voted off party will be killed however the administrator in charge of the group sees fit. They will remain dead until Monday, upon which time they will be returned to the Tower and are out of the competition. Voting works as follows:

ICly
Each character may cast one vote. Voting is not mandatory--all characters will be instructed to step into a voting booth that matches the color of their team and must remain there for one minute, but they do not have to press any of the buttons. If they wish to vote, they will press the button beside the name of the character they wish to vote out of the group. Be aware that there is no need for a majority of the pod to vote: if everyone refuses to vote but one person, that one person will be directly choosing who is killed. You may use the end of week one subthread to play out voting decisions, react to the entire situation, or just generally thread out interactions between groups.

OOCly
Please fill out the form in the subthread here to cast a vote. Voting will last until 11:59PM EST on Sunday. You do not have to have your character cast a vote. In the event of a tie, all characters refusing to vote, or any other situation which would lead to a lack of consensus, the result will be randomized (between the options available or between everyone if literally no one voted).

Voting has been concluded. Dax's pod has lost [AU5] Ventus, Riki's pod has lost [OU] Suzaku, and Jason's pod has lost [OU] England. All will wake up on Monday within the Tower. IC voting results can be found here.

And now, week two! There are different challenges, now, and living conditions have changed somewhat to accommodate them/adjust for what has been learned on the first week.

Week Two Challenges
Challenges are classified as active or passive; passive ones require no work on your part except that you participate in the event in general, while active ones will require you reply to mark your character's participation. Results will be tallied at the end of the week.

Cooperation: How well do you and your podmates work together, both when it comes to living together and when it comes to participating in challenges? This challenge is passive.
Physical Health: A healthy Tower is a happy Tower! How is your physical condition? This challenge is passive.
Mental Health: Taking care of the mind is as important as taking care of the body, sometimes. How's your mental stability? This event is passive.

Treadmills: A more active way of testing endurance and strength! Whichever group runs on theirs the most wins! This challenge is active.
Balance: How good is your balance? You're about to find out! Whoever has the best balance wins. This challenge is active.
Food Challenge: Eating gross food is a good challenge, right? Whoever eats the grossest things wins! This challenge is active.

Living Conditions
Dax: Treadmills and balance beams have been added to the common room (taking the place of the television, which has been removed) with a note asking characters to please run and balance on them as much as possible. Characters will only receive what might be considered gross foods, but they are things people actually eat.

Riki: Riki's pod has warped nearly entirely. While the bedrooms remain the same as before, they are now attached to the common room via balance beams that, despite appearing straight, seem to twist and turn ridiculously; it takes at least fifteen minutes to cross one to get to and from the bedrooms. The floor in the common room starts moving inexplicably in places, as if treadmills have been melted directly into the floor. Even jumping off may have you land on another treadmill, even if one wasn't there before. They seem to appear and disappear at random. Characters can only order "gross" foods to eat.

Jason: Treadmills and balance beams have been added to the common rooms. Instead of being able to move around, characters will be chained to a treadmill or forced by retrieval units to remain on a balance beam for five hours every day. They will be able to talk to others but cannot walk over to directly interact with anyone else. Characters will notice a change in the taste of their nutrition bars--something...else... is being included in them. They no longer receive water to drink, but are instead being served multicolored drinks with odd tastes.

The thread for week two of this event will take place here.

Meanwhile, at the Tower...
One box of candy bars has appeared in the cafeteria. One crate containing cartons of milk has appeared in the cathedral. Five packets of mung bean seeds can be found scattered around the farmland.

Quick Links To Subthreads
Questions, Week Two Challenges

Comments

QUESTIONS

[animusmods]

Re: QUESTIONS

[moontothetide]

Is cheating, magical or otherwise, allowed (provided said characters happen to luck out and be on an upswing with their empty collars)?

Also, can we poke around "examples" of gross food (articles on the subject, episodes of Survivor), to get an idea of what our characters are likel to be eating?

[wrigurun]

For Riki's pod, do the "gross" foods have to be actual, named dishes or can they just be things that can be eaten that are considered gross? For instance, would they be able to order unprepared slugs or snails or would they have to be prepared in some fashion such as escargot?

[miseris_socios]

How fast are the treadmills going? Can the speed be adjusted?

[fallen_stage]

Can we order food that might be considered gross from the character's canon? Like a dish from Kuja's Gaia that's made from frogs.

[forsakenwood]

Would Float (spell that enables target to temporarily float <1 foot off the ground) work?

Re: QUESTIONS

[fusedstars]

Are things from the previous experiment still active? Like Hei had some chip in him that shocks him if he disobeys the tower, or even thinks of it. Would that still be active?

Re: QUESTIONS

[princeofjunes]

A few questions!

First, is the treadmill competition based on time or distance?

Second, would nasty food items be available from their respective worlds (like P4s Rancid Gravy or something), or is it limited to 'real' foods?

And third, if yes to the second, would something like the aforementioned Rancid Gravy keep its HP restoring properties?

[lamorteblanc]

Posting this question for Ashley! She wants to know how many memories from William were taken out during the surgery and if she can have him have fake memories and things in turn?

(frozen comment) END OF WEEK ONE VOTING

[animusmods]

If your character is going to vote, please fill out the following form in a reply to this thread. We may miss your vote if you do not reply to this thread.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Pod:</b> <b>Voting For:</b>

(frozen comment)

[fallen_stage]

Character Name: Kuja [OU]
Pod: Dax
Voting For: Ventus [AU5]

(frozen comment)

[ofdewandglass]

Character Name: Feferi Peixes (OU)
Pod: Jason
Voting For: no one

(frozen comment)

[restitchtime]

Character Name: Rose Strider [AU2]
Pod: Dax
Voting For: Nobody.

(frozen comment)

[papshooshing]

Character Name: Karkat Vantas
Pod: Dax
Voting For: no one

(frozen comment)

[pushedaround]

Character Name: Tavros Nitram [ OU ]
Pod: Dax
Voting For: Nobody.

(frozen comment)

[tortileghostwriter]

Character Name: David Lalonde [AU2]
Pod: Riki
Voting For: No one.

(frozen comment)

[viditlibertas]

Character Name: Alcor/Anguished One
Pod: Riki
Voting For: Nobody

(frozen comment)

[myblueskies]

Character Name: Romeo
Pod: Jason
Voting For: No one!

(frozen comment)

[notagiraffe]

Character Name: Taiki
Pod: Dax
Voting For: No one

(frozen comment)

[moontothetide]

Character Name: Tara Maclay
Pod: Dax
Voting For: No one

(frozen comment)

[swordofzero]

Character Name: Suzaku Kururugi
Pod: Riki
Voting For: No one

WEEK TWO ACTIVE CHALLENGES

[animusmods]

Reply to this thread to record your character's active challenge results. You may do this all at once on Thursday night (remember results go up on Friday), tally up how much you think your character will do during the week right away, or edit your reply to add up amounts over time.

Treadmills
Note an average human could run around seven to eight miles per hour (~12 km/hr). List of Olympic running records for reference.
<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Pod:</b> <b>Running Time:</b> <b>Running Speed:</b> (please use miles per hour)

Balance
<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Pod:</b> <b>Balancing Time:</b> (count only time actually balancing, not falling)

Food Challenge:
Note that if you are in Jason's pod you should record everything your character eats and drinks.
<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Pod:</b> <b>Food Eaten:</b> (Jason's pod does not have to fill this out) <b>Amount Eaten:</b>

i'm going to edit this a billion times woops

[beknightedheroine]

Treadmills__________
Character Name: Sayaka Miki
Pod: Jason
Running Time: On the 4th day of the week, Sayaka will attempt to systematically damage the treadmill via summoning swords and jamming them in it repeatedly, until the pain from being so overtly disobedient grows too great for her to stay conscious.
Running Speed: 3 miles per hour for 5 hours for the first 3 days. Pulls a stupid stunt on the 4th day, another one of the 5th day, spends last two days going WELP in cell.

Character Name: Sayaka Miki
Pod: Jason
Balancing Time: Thanks to the balance beam placed into her pod on the 5th day, Sayaka will accumulate about 5 hours total of this over the last few days of the event.

Food Challenge______
Character Name: Sayaka Miki
Pod: Jason
Food Eaten: Half of one (1) altered nutrition bar.
Amount Eaten: Sayaka will eat precisely half of one nutrition bar, then quit eating any food she gets, relying on magic to sustain her body.

CRATE: CANDY BARS

[animusmods]

If you would like your character to discover the crate of candy bars reply here by 10PM EST.

[tsunball]

signing up for this!

CRATE: MILK CARTONS

[animusmods]

If you would like your character to discover the crate of milk cartons reply here by 10PM EST.

[great_king_of_evil]

/again

MUNG BEAN SEEDS

[animusmods]

If you would like your character to find the mung bean seed packets reply here by 10PM EST.

[syncingdoll]

Hel~lo there.