VLDR: Convention of the Minds - WORST ENDING

[PolyesterHomes]

Tom is here. Inteus is healing everyone that's hurt.

[Knockoff]

The commons has information in exchange for a voucher. We can check a few people’s votes combined with some cash for the shop, assuming the coalition fails. It could be done by someone we all trust, like Inteus.

[Hawkwing425]

Tom!

[Phinerxen]

The more situations like this continue to pop up, the more against it I become. We can't make a coalition with such a shaky foundation.

Yet you're willing to risk dying during the next strategic decision?

You took that same risk last decision game, didn't you? It was always present, only now is it being fully portrayed is the thing.

[leeten]

Hey, bar boy. Ran into Pam?

[Cyantic]

Tom looks tired, and he situated himself by the door to the infirmary, leaning against the wall.

Anyone have a lighter? I need to think.

[Hawkwing425]

Did something happen to you?!

[Cyantic]

Steady, Doc. I'm still alive, aren't I? Someone give me the story, too. From their mouths.

[yauaustin202]

The more situations like this continue to pop up, the more against it I become. We can't make a coalition with such a shaky foundation.

Yet you're willing to risk dying during the next strategic decision?

You took that same risk last decision game, didn't you? It was always present, only now is it being fully portrayed is the thing.

The difference is that there was a light at the end of the tunnel. A single possible outcome where everyone lives.
Not possible anymore according to johnson. And he hasn't lied about the decision games so far.

[Knockoff]

Alright. Nicole, Maisha, and I were looking for Mark. We overhead something from the booths near the lobby and walked into Pam and Mark with a knife wound. We moved to defend him and got into a brief altercation. Pam took a sledgehammer to my leg and grazed Maisha’s head before running out the booth. She accused Mark of beong CIA and asked if we were accomplices, but I didn’t have the time to ask why.

[Phinerxen]

I'm not gonna get into this argument again, nothing is going to change and we'll only end up arguing much more when we could use this time for more important things. But I will say this. The threat of death was always present, be it by Johnsons hands, or by the people surrounding you. Have you not seen the amount of conflict here? Sooner or later, decision or outside of here, it'll just end badly.

[Cyantic]

Tom sighs as no lighter seems to be forthcoming.

Alright. I met Pam. I ran into her and talked to her, alone. As you can see, I'm still standing perfectly fine. She struck me as afraid, more innocent than anything. And considering the people accusing her...

I told her to get away. To hide. This was going to end badly if she came here, and I believe she's innocent. She could've killed me there, sure. But she didn't. We talked, we gave each other information, and we parted. I'm still here, a little more tired of this all, but very alive. Maybe there's not as clean cut guilt on the other side... but.

Well. I'm not convinced. If she was bloodthirsty, she had her opportunity. But she didn't take it. The CIA accusation is odd, but honestly... it does make a little sense. Johnson mentioned something on the CIA. It would fit with what he told me. I don't know if it's true or not - I didn't hear it from Pam's lips... but.

I'm not convinced I'm being told the full truth here. I can't see Pam as the guilty party at all.

[yauaustin202]

Joan, if you're not willing to discuss it, then it's only fair that you do not make any decisions in the next strategic decision.
Maybe we'll lock you in a dorm room or something, but if you're not willing to sign the coalition, you should not have the power to influence life and death here.

[Phinerxen]

Very excited to be killed, then. At least I have enough balls to understand it's inevitable.

[leeten]

So the fuck's the game plan then? Let ya'll play cat and mouse until someone dies, then fuck off into the coalition? Cause Joan, that sounds like what you're pushing.

[Knockoff]

I mean, if she tried to kill you with everyone’s whereabouts accounted for, I don’t think it’d exactly work out for her. And it did seem like she was targeting Mark specifically.

In regard to Joan, I have no idea what the correct approach is. Preventing her from playing the third strategic decision doesn’t solve the root problem of never being able to leave. I know we talked about potentially escaping through alternative means. Has anyone made any progress there?

[Phinerxen]

I've explained my own thought process and my own goals, as well as my gripes with the coalition. That's the one thing I propose; to calm your tits and communicate because we're only getting closer to ripping each other's head off, and signing the coalition will just make it happen outside than inside.

[Hawkwing425]

...then why are we staying inside?

[yauaustin202]

If you're willing to openly hold 11 other people back from life, then perhaps you really should accept the inevitable and offer your body up to the lord and allow us to escape.
Because your rejection of signing this is actively putting more and more people in danger of death

Im sick of being stuck in this complete utter nonesense of a place. I just want to leave. And im sure a majority of everyone else does as well. So stop holding everyone else hostage here.

[Cyantic]

America's dead. We're not going to resurrect it on impossible promises - promises we do not have proof of. Staying here is just getting people killed for nothing.

[Hawkwing425]

It doesn't matter if America can be saved in some way or not. We can't help anyone in here, much less ourselves.

[Knockoff]

I mean, if we can get everyone to agree to the coalition on paper, we can then check anyone whose votes we believe may have been to refuse right after, assuming it does fail. We should have the resources to check at least two or three people, if not more.

[Phinerxen]

Joan's face more so switched over to something that could only be described as being fed up, or tired.

Maybe you should focus on the people who haven't given their two cents on the situation, eh? Or on those who hide their true thoughts and goals, rather than ganging up on me. Because you only have, what, 7 people on board the coalition? Kill me if you want, so you can finally leave, but you are wasting your time. So fuck off.

[Cyantic]

Inner Animal indeed...

[Hawkwing425]

I'm pretty sure it's just you who's outwardly spoken against the coalition. Maisha and Wallace may be in your corner, but I don't know. Also, no, no murder please. Not until we've settled the coalition situation.