[nahida is eating a strawberry shortcake from the ikea restaurant menu. i just realized i've never actually eaten at ikea before can we eat there next time i come down, i'm curious.
[ yes we can because it's actually not bad and it's cheap. anyway, she's enjoying her cake and he's wandering over to join her, pulling up a chair to sit across from her. ]
Something like that. Alex and I wanted to go back out and see if we could find anything new. IKEA always has people, so...this seemed like a good place to start.
I was hoping maybe I'd be able to exit one of the subway stations today, but... I still can't get up the stairs. So I came back here for a snack while I think about my next move.
You either? [ that's good to know. ] A few of us have tried and had the same results. But you'd think the train wouldn't work at all if we weren't meant to exit at other stations at some point, right? What's the point otherwise?
A few people I've talked to have the same idea. It's the only thing that makes sense, otherwise making a team wouldn't be an objective to the game. If I had to guess, our housing is in another district that we aren't permitted to go to yet. For whatever reason. Maybe there's a blocker on our phone that's locking us out or something.
[once teams actually get formed... time will tell how long that takes.]
I think... probably if anything, something would get added to our phones that unlocks it. If it was a blocker, someone might be able to bypass it by leaving their phone behind, right?
Uh...probably? I'm not sure how it all works or anything but if there's some sort of frequency we aren't able to tune into with our phones that could be it. Add our phones to a different network, gain access to different districts.
But I mean we're also dead. So rules might be different here.
A little, yes. Kaveh and I are going to be on the same team for sure... that way I can protect him. [girl you are tiny. how do you expect to do that.] But I'm still getting to know the others here.
I wish I knew a little more about what sorts of things we'll be expected to do for points. It would make strategizing a little easier.
Protect him...? [ he spoke to kaveh a little the day before and vaguely wonders if nahida means protect him from himself. ]
A few people I've talked to are wondering the same thing. It's hard to pick teammates when we don't know what we're up again. If we make a bad pick and get assigned tasks that we can't complete, that's setting us up to lose.
[that is exactly it honestly. nahida's metric for potential teammates right now is "how likely are they to prevent someone else from taking advantage of kaveh?"]
Right... a balanced team of some kind would probably be the wisest strategy, but without knowing what sort of tasks we're supposed to be doing, we can't know what kind of balance we need to strike.
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Balancing things in general might be best overall, but people who have skills that complement each other may not necessarily have personalities that do.
Right...it's probably better to focus on personalities you can work with than skills people have. If you're all in agreement on stuff, you can probably pick up skills and make up for each other's shortcomings, don't you think? It's harder if you're arguing the whole time.
[or he should be, anyway!! nahida hopes he will look for teammates that he thinks he can get along with himself, but unfortunately she has this terrible feeling like he might make his choices based on who he thinks would be a good teammate for her.
so her criteria for teams is "would be a good teammate for kaveh". i hate them.]
Alex has a tendency to like everybody and think the best of everybody. She thinks everyone we've met so far has been interesting and wants the best outcome.
[ which isn't bad. it's very alex, but jonas has been trying to be logical and reasonable even if it makes him out to be kind of a pragmatic asshole. ]
At minimum it has to be someone we can both work with. We were thinking of maybe someone close to our age, but it's not like a requirement or anything. Someone smart who can look at the tasks and the game and help us come up with plans to earn points. Somebody motivated to play that won't be a, uh, liability, I guess?
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I only care about having someone who isn't going to mess around and will play along to get us out. You'd think that'd be everybody here, but I'm not so sure.
You would think. [ it's muttered, because he would love if people would cooperate but he's not confident everyone will. ]
Surprised me a little, too. You'd think being dead would be a pretty good motivator but I guess its not enough for some people. Which is kind of annoying since at least three people are going to have to inevitably rely on them.
Perhaps anyone who doesn't wish to do something about it should form a team with each other, though that would be a problem if there were more or less than four of them... or some increment of four.
I'm not sure how you'd find all those people either. You can't really put up a poll and say "hey if you don't care about living, join a team with these people" without it looking pretty bad.
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anyway, she waves to jonas when he speaks up.]
Jonas, hello. Are you looking around too?
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Something like that. Alex and I wanted to go back out and see if we could find anything new. IKEA always has people, so...this seemed like a good place to start.
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I was hoping maybe I'd be able to exit one of the subway stations today, but... I still can't get up the stairs. So I came back here for a snack while I think about my next move.
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The rules do say only those on teams get housing, and I haven't seen anything that would fit that description in the areas we can access so far.
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[once teams actually get formed... time will tell how long that takes.]
I think... probably if anything, something would get added to our phones that unlocks it. If it was a blocker, someone might be able to bypass it by leaving their phone behind, right?
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But I mean we're also dead. So rules might be different here.
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I wish I knew a little more about what sorts of things we'll be expected to do for points. It would make strategizing a little easier.
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A few people I've talked to are wondering the same thing. It's hard to pick teammates when we don't know what we're up again. If we make a bad pick and get assigned tasks that we can't complete, that's setting us up to lose.
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Right... a balanced team of some kind would probably be the wisest strategy, but without knowing what sort of tasks we're supposed to be doing, we can't know what kind of balance we need to strike.
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Balancing things in general might be best overall, but people who have skills that complement each other may not necessarily have personalities that do.
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Right...it's probably better to focus on personalities you can work with than skills people have. If you're all in agreement on stuff, you can probably pick up skills and make up for each other's shortcomings, don't you think? It's harder if you're arguing the whole time.
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[she sighs. it most certainly is.]
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Is Kaveh trying to find people for you guys to group up with, too? Or just you?
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[or he should be, anyway!! nahida hopes he will look for teammates that he thinks he can get along with himself, but unfortunately she has this terrible feeling like he might make his choices based on who he thinks would be a good teammate for her.
so her criteria for teams is "would be a good teammate for kaveh". i hate them.]
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Alex is looking for us, too. We've come to a lot of the same conclusions but it's still hard to say yes to anything when it's so early.
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What are you and Alex looking for as far as teammates go?
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[ which isn't bad. it's very alex, but jonas has been trying to be logical and reasonable even if it makes him out to be kind of a pragmatic asshole. ]
At minimum it has to be someone we can both work with. We were thinking of maybe someone close to our age, but it's not like a requirement or anything. Someone smart who can look at the tasks and the game and help us come up with plans to earn points. Somebody motivated to play that won't be a, uh, liability, I guess?
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I only care about having someone who isn't going to mess around and will play along to get us out. You'd think that'd be everybody here, but I'm not so sure.
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I would have expected everyone here to be willing to do something to find a way out, but...
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Some people didn't seem too motivated to take action on their own... that surprised me.
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Surprised me a little, too. You'd think being dead would be a pretty good motivator but I guess its not enough for some people. Which is kind of annoying since at least three people are going to have to inevitably rely on them.
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[she frowns.]
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