EVENT - THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

[avibusraris]

Come one, come all! This wonderful test of brain power and courage is about to commence! What is it exactly, you ask? Well then, don't worry your little head about that one bit! The birdie here will explain it all to you.

The rules are very simple. There is a shocker and a shockee, following so far? The inmates will both be lead into different rooms. There is a glass wall that separates them, and of course a glass wall for the audience to be able to see and watch everything! Now then, the shocker will be provided with questions thanks to a digital screen. The screen itself is integrated into the table they will be seated at, as well as a button, and questions will begin to appear once the game begins. The questions start out easy then start to get harder, and if the shocker tries to tell the shockee any answers, then they will receive the electricity instead, seeing as how they are strapped down to an electric chair as well.

Sounds pretty fun so far! Either way, each pair has four questions to get through. For each question answered correctly, they will gain CP. If the shockee is unable to answer a question, or answers wrong, then it's up to the shocker to provide the pain and then they get the CP. See it's a good game where everyone is rewarded! The shockee cannot die on the first two questions, if they are to answer it wrong (or if the shocker gets the electricity instead) but they can die on the third question, and they will die on the last question if they are shocked. Now then, off to the CP count.

First = 30,000 CP
Second = 40,000 CP
Third = 50,000 CP
Fourth = 80,000 CP

Oh, and there are no extra rewards for dying in this event. The CP gained from questions and shocking will be the only CP awarded. So, comment in the proper spot with your muses entering, and then the shockers will be getting PM's with the questions!

Let it begin!

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[vaframenti]

The moment he was seated and caught a glimpse of Anastasia, Loki gave her an assured smirk. Going against the Queen would be dangerous business no matter what persona she took on, but being paired with her was an undeniable amusement.

"The games never stop, do they?" He grinned.

[impureheart]

One thing that he might note is that Ana isn't dressed in white or pink or any other color that might have been something she'd recently been seen in. For the past few days, she's been away, on her own, avoiding most people. She'd lost Will, that was more than enough to force her to reconsider things.

And reconsider she had. There was one facade that had protected her the first time that she'd lost him, and that was the one that she had grown so accustomed to that it fell all but second nature. Before the event, she'd gone and purchased a new dress, with dark burgundy leather pants instead of the short black skirt. Her hair was tied up, her makeup was done perfectly, and she didn't look to be that pleased girl she'd behaved as for quite some time before. The smile on her lips was perfectly placed, but not at all as contented as it once was when she sat down across from Loki.

"The games are just beginning, darling."

That accent was back, too. Since she hadn't shown her face as "Ana" on a stage, it could be questioned whether or not it was just an act for the stage, but this was different. It was merely a coincidence that this was her first appearance during an event since the day she became the person her heart wanted her to be.

The Red Queen is back, bitch.

[vaframenti]

It wasn't difficult for Loki to pick up the changes in her demeanor, and beyond the surface of Anastasia's well-placed mask he could sense that something had gone awry in her. Posing as The Red Queen easily could have been all for show, but to him the pieces aligned to tell a different tale. She had suffered a loss, and it took very little guessing to figure out who had left her alone.

He could sense it, perhaps, because he too had lost the two people he had dared to care for in Wonderland. As it was for Loki, it now seemed to be for Anastasia. Games were all they had left.

"When you're ready, Majesty." He quirked an eyebrow, almost as if he was daring her to do her worst. He had already had everything taken from him, even his life for a short time. What thing so terrible could she do to him now?

[impureheart]

A person like Anastasia in grief, wanting to show the world that she wasn't going to be taken lightly from this point on, was probably the most unfortunate endeavor that Loki could've been selected for.

Before she even asked the question, her hand went to press the shock button. No sense in playing on the easy level, is there? Only one chance for a mistake.

"Now then~ Question one."

Anastasia read the monitor, having to hold in a grimace. Honestly, she didn't want to ask something like that. Oh well, it wasn't as though she had to state the answer if he got it wrong.

"A cat's what glows under a blacklight?"

[vaframenti]

"Ah ah," he chided with a teasing tone to his voice, "don't be too eager now."

It was a pathetically easy question. Anyone who had ever seen a hokey infomercial for cleaning supplies probably knew the answer.

"I suppose there's no way to put it gracefully." While Anastasia held her grimace, Loki didn't. "Urine."

[impureheart]

"Oh, darling."

Whether he got the question right or not, Anastasia pressed her fingers down on the button firmly. It wasn't because he got it wrong, oh no. She spoke through her teeth, clearly having little problem with tormenting him even if it meant going against the rules.

"Don't tell me what I can and can't do or be."

[vaframenti]

It was a second too late when he realized just what she was going to do. The shock hit his body with a searing intensity that he hadn't quite expected. He squeezed his eyes shut and clenched his fists, though it did little to suppress the rising urge he had to scream.

By some vague blessing the pain stopped just before that point.

He breathed heavily, his gaze eventually moving to meet Anastasia's. There was pain on his face, certainly, but beneath that there was a twisted sense of raw amusement that showed itself in a small, pained smile.

"You always have had a way of making things much more interesting." He knew for certain he would die, but seeing her rage was almost worth the price.

[impureheart]

When his gaze would return to Anastasia's, he would find a smile on her face. An almost vicious glee. It wasn't the same as those happy smiles that she used to exhibit, but it was certainly a divergence from the fake, carefully placed facades she wore when she was trying to hide what she was truly feeling. This was different. This was that pleasure she felt when she felt power. It was the closest thing she could to something enjoyable right now.

"It's better to make things interesting than to face the frightful fate of boredom this place so often plagues us with," her tone changes from the sweeping calmness that it had started with, then she tacks on with added pep and what could easily be mistaken for a falsified affection, "Mostly I just like to watch you writhe."

[vaframenti]

Loki knew what it was like to be hungry for power, and he knew that he had likely donned that same sort of demented grin many times before himself. Still, to see it on Anastasia's face was somewhat of an unsettling turn of events.

"At least you're honest." He gave a halfhearted chuckle. "Do you plan on even asking the question this time or are you merely going to shock me for the thrill of it?"

[impureheart]

"Of course I'm going to ask it, darling. I can't get any CP if you're not wrong."

Anastasia's fingers dances around the button almost playfully, threatening to press it once or twice before she finally leaned back comfortably in the chair.

"Some male spiders pluck their webs like what to attract female spiders?"

[vaframenti]

He straightened himself in the chair as well as he could manage, carefully studying her movements. How much fun she seemed to be having was quite the contrast to how she had acted only days ago.

"I've not a clue in the world." He conceded with a grin. Even if it was going to hurt, he didn't want to award her the prize of seeing him squirm excessively. "A harp, perhaps?"

[impureheart]

"Welcome to the modern age, darling," Anastasia all but cooed as she pressed down on the button again.

Loki was someone that she had considered herself friendly with. It wasn't as though she didn't still consider her appreciation of him to be something valuable, but given circumstances, true value was something dangerous in a place like this. True value got people killed, which meant that the only way to keep it safe was, as it always had been, to make it look worthless. If that came hand-in-hand with tormenting a friend, then so be it. Especially if that friend was a snide little snake and made it just a little more fun than Anastasia knew it should have been.

[vaframenti]

After the first shock, the second one was more painful than it would have been otherwise. This time the pain showed on his face, but he was obviously struggling to keep himself under control. He was aware that he was going to lose the game, but Loki wasn't ready to give in and let the Queen relish in her victory born of advantage just yet.

"I'm glad one of us is having a good time." His voice sounded weaker than it usually did, but he'd have to be dead before he ceased making snide remarks.

[impureheart]

"Not having fun, Loki? I'm insulted."

She obviously wasn't insulted.

"If a telephone company added one more digit to all of the phone numbers in a single area code, how many new phone numbers could potentially be added?"

[vaframenti]

"More fun than I'd be having with anyone else, I suppose." At the question he just shook his head and laughed bitterly.

"That's an awfully shameless question. It's as if our dear Warden isn't even trying to hide that she wants us dead anymore." He shrugged dismissively. He didn't know something like that off the top of his head, and he wasn't going to bother trying to work it out when it was futile to do so anyway. "Five billion."

[impureheart]

"Her game has always been easy to read, it's a shame you haven't figured it out yet. Though you are rather impressively ensuring I get plenty of CP."

She presses the button again, not even bothering to tell him the correct answer this time. At least he actually got it wrong this time.

[vaframenti]

Loki wanted to laugh. He really, really did. He was sure his sarcasm hadn't been lost on her -- she just wanted to have the final word in the first battle of quips they'd had since her resurgence as the Red Queen. In a twisted way, he understood that sort of mentality. He would have wanted the same in her position, yet it was still somehow funny to him regardless. Maybe because in the face of what he knew was coming, the only defense he had was to take it all as a giant joke.

He never got the chance to actually laugh before the electricity rushed through him again, the intensity of it more fierce than the two times before. He could feel his body beginning to lose its grasp on proper function, his heart racing and his muscles spasming uncontrollably. The ringing in his ears grew louder and more painful, and finally he let out a helpless series of screams.

As it turned out, the current was more than fierce; it was also fatal.

[impureheart]

"Goodbye, darling."

Her tone was a little off from the sadistic pleasure she normally would have gotten out of this, just a little deeper, but it was only barely noticeable. As she watched the screams and the life slip out of him, she wore a smile like armor. Loki wasn't someone who was deep within her heart, but she had some appreciation of him. But she couldn't be the White Queen anymore. Not without Will. So she would be the Red Queen, as it was all she had left. And she would watch him fry.