Upgrade Poll (2)

[happybot]

Who: everyone
When: Day 38, morning
Where: ChainChat

[This morning when you check your Chain, you're greeted by a new message from The Construct:

Thank you for your responses to our upgrade ideas poll. Your suggestions have been taken into account and compiled into this convenient poll. Votes will be tallied within a few days, so please reply promptly. Thank you very much!

Poll #22462 upgrade poll 2

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 12

select your preferred upgrade (pick two)

a casino
3 (25.0%)

a training hall / a gym
10 (83.3%)

a bar
3 (25.0%)

a library
7 (58.3%)

OOCly, the poll will close next Saturday when the results are posted. ICly, feel free to use this post to argue in the chat room! Do your best to promote your favoured upgrade!]

Comments

[bluediligence]

I love the idea of having an actual, for real gym on board! A library would be cool too, though. I wonder what kind of books there'd be?

[ yes, hi, faito is awake after spending the entirety of yesterday in a dead sleep ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Okay, but why a casino? Why not just a game room?

[bad_crowmance]

Crow: a casino would have a lot of great opportunities for bonding!
Crow: friendly competitions! games! a chance to earn sparks!
Crow: it'd be a great way to relieve tension and have fun
Crow: and there's something to be said for the thrill of a challenge

[schrodingerscockroach]

I would think a game room would have all that plus for more variety in games.

[bad_crowmance]

Crow: but a game room wouldn't have the same TYPES of games as a casino!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Why not?

[bluediligence]

[ After debating a while over whether or not she should approach him like this of all ways: ]

Someone must really like the gambling atmosphere.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Screeeeeeeeeeeee]

[Listen]

[It]

[It takes like five minutes]

I guess so.

[bluediligence]

[ A very anxious, uncomfortable five minutes, thanks!! But she waits. Patiently. Because she's not an idiot, she knows he must have been beating himself up. ]

So. I was wondering. Can we talk in person, or is it too soon?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[There is so much self berating and telling himself to just grab a pebble so he can function and it's hard and the worst.]

Where do you want to meet?

[bluediligence]

[ goddamnit dusk she can feel that self-loathing from all the way over here ]

I'm on the beach. Meet me here? The fresh air is nice.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Sorry, there's just a lot.]

All right. I'll be there in a few minutes.

[bluediligence]

Take your time.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Probably better not to.]

[So just heading out to the beeeeeach, ffff]

[bluediligence]

[ He'll find her standing out by the water's edge, looking out over the gentle waves. With her new outfit on, it's easy to see that her right arm and leg are both still metal prosthetics, sleek and glinting in the morning sun ... it's also easy to see the bandage on her left arm, right where he'd sank his teeth into her. ]

[ She turns to face him, and - ]

Are you okay?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He is blank facing.]

[Really hard right now. Which is weird when he's still in the unicorn shirt and pink overalls.]

[Though that question startles a sardonic laugh out of him.]

Are you seriously asking that?

[bluediligence]

[ That face, that laugh … she doesn't like them. She doesn't like the question very much, either. ]

[ But, for now, she stays where she is. He can come to her if he wants to; she's (probably) not going to force the issue. ]

Yes, I'm seriously asking my friend, who I care for very much and who went through something fucking awful, if he's okay, because he's my friend and I want to know if there's anything that I can do to help. I've been worried about you.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....

[There's a few moments where he's just staring at her because god. GOD.]

You're....a painfully good person. You know that, right? [Because he knows she had been scared. Terrified at the time. He's not sure he could turn around and be worried about someone after something like that.]

[Still, he does approach. And he. Needs to do something. But he doesn't know what, not exactly and just.]

[He pulls out his Chain and holds it out to her.]

I'm giving you a thousand of my sparks. Get whatever you want.

I....overestimates what I could handle. And I hurt you. And I'm sorry so just.

It's something. [To try and make it up a little bit.]

[bluediligence]

I don't know whether or not I'm a good person. I'm just me. [ She'd been terrified in the moment, scared of the pain and what could happened, of not being able to defend herself. Of him. It had been horrifying ... And she'd realised that he must have been just as horrified, just as scared. ]

[ She looks between him, and the Chain he's offering. ]

It was the trial-runner's fault for putting us in that position in the first place. They're the one I'm mad at — not you. But … [ She shakes her head, her fingers curling briefly into her shirt near her chest. ] I accept your apology.

[ She reaches out slowly, but rather than take the Chain, she gently pushes his hand back towards him. ]

I'd rather you spend those sparks on something that everyone can enjoy, though.

[schrodingerscockroach]

That's why you're a good person. Worrying about someone who hurt you, even if I was compromised. Not even being mad...its not an easy thing for most people to do.

...forgiveness isn't always so easy for most. [There is relief. She doesn't hate him. He dreaded that thought, feared it. But he still hurt her and she still looks....]

I have five thousand sparks. [No chill.] Gonna buy movies, some people have never seen them. Its fine for you to get some nice things.

Or at the very least request movies you want.

[malignstar]

Felix 🐱: like working out, huh?

[bad_crowmance]

Crow: I don't know about you but I'd be surprised to see slot machines in a non-casino gaming room.

[schrodingerscockroach]

What fun even is a slot machine if you're not getting something? It's just pulling a lever to match things.

[bad_crowmance]

Crow: What makes you so sure that our dear Prince won't set up some kind of reward for it?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Because we have no exchangeable currency?