VLDR: Convention of the Minds - WORST ENDING

[yauaustin202]

oh lord forgive me, for once again i must commit a sin in your name.

Stop pretending as if you want to die. Say that you want to be killed one more time and i will knock the wind out of you. The fact is that you've told everyone what your position is, and yet you're only shifting off the heat off of yourself when you said it'd be futile anyways. What other plan do you susgest here? Johnson culling us one by one and then just have this be a graveyard?

[Cyantic]

Terrence...

[Knockoff]

Tom, you said you had an idea for how to escape without a coalition, correct? Now might be a good time to say it.

[yauaustin202]

Terrence...

I am a man of the cloth. I do not kill, but i shall be compelled to act.

[Phinerxen]

I don't want to die, dumbass. Do your ears work at all? I want to LIVE. I want to support those I LOVE. And I can't do that with a half-assed coalition. If you truly believe you want to leave, then go ahead and make me sign it. I won't follow someone who lacks a spine or one who lacks their own thoughts. Do something, or shut the fuck up and go back to playing make-believe thinking that all will be well and good after this situation, because it won't. And it hasn't been for years.

[Hawkwing425]

Joan, I went over this when Nicole was refusing to sign the coalition, so I'll ask you the same question I did her. What's your ideal plan for getting us out of here if not the coalition?

[PolyesterHomes]

Terrance rushes forward and grabs Joan forcefully by the hand.

[Cyantic]

He looks around warily.

If we can't get out through the coalition, we go another way. The shopkeepers have access to the backrooms, what Johnson and everyone else moves around in. There is no one exit to a bunker, especially not with an elevator. If that would fail, that would be catastrophic. No idiot would sign off on this. But an escape through that way would be guarded. We'd have to stick together, all of us, and get ready for one hell of a trial.

But I think it can be done. If we can get access to those backrooms, we can find a way out. The elevator is not the only way out.

[yauaustin202]

Listen closely Joan.
If you say that, i will drag you over and force your hand to sign that damn piece of paper, for the sake of everyone here.

Do not think i will not act, and do not insult my patience.

[Knockoff]

Hm. If that’s truly the case, we might have a chance. I’m concerned about them being better armed than us, but it does seem plausible.

[PolyesterHomes]

Joan stares at Terrance with a fire in their eye for a split second; Terrance lets go and takes a step back, as Joan takes a defensive stance.

[Cyantic]

We exchange surprise with numbers. We have shields, there's a chance. We just have to all do it together.

[Phinerxen]

Tom, that sounds like a wonderful idea. Would be quite nice to check it out, eh, Terrence?

[yauaustin202]

Hmph.
You're saying we'll make a break for it Tom? And you're saying Johnson won't be personally anticipating it as we're discussing this plan out loud?

Plus, you'd still might need to kill whoever is guarding those areas. Especially since they can shoot you dead. Inteus, what do you say?

[Hawkwing425]

What if they have, like... bombs or something? To keep us in line? They're clearly okay with some of us dying for this.

[Cyantic]

It's not my first pick, no. But we have numbers. And if we don't all make it, then at least more would make it then letting ourselves get picked off slowly by sociopaths.

Johnson will expect it. We just have to be clever and strike harder. If the coalition doesn't work, then that's what's on the table.

[Cyantic]

He pauses.

We can lay out multiple routes of attack if we have too. The idea is out there - we just have to put it all together.

[Knockoff]

Eh. Fuck Johnson and fuck this place. Let’s just go for it. I don’t want to stick around for the third game and Joan won’t agree to sign the coalition.

[Hawkwing425]

Joan?

[Cyantic]

Two in favour. I'm not saying we all have to agree... but most.

[Hawkwing425]

...If the majority goes, I go.

[leeten]

You're all nuts anyways. Sure.

[Phinerxen]

I'm in favor.

[Cyantic]

Five. I'm sure Pam will be in - we can go by and pick her up, so probably closer to six. Rest of you?

[yauaustin202]

...
First problem, anyone who disagrees with the coalition will obviously disagree with this plan. So we do not exactly have a really true number advantage.
Second problem, we don't have a map of the area that isn't the area we can roam around, that's practically running around a labyrinth, and we have to make our way out.

This method is effectively a violent coalition that doesn't require everyone to begin. I'm willing to go wherever the good doctor is going, but i disagree with the plan

Joan, what do you mean you're in favor? This plan doesn't fix shit for your america, you get nothing from this other than a bloodier coalition.