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!

Comments

[tanteiotaku]

He didn't have the energy to argue that point. Or do much of anything really. Other than breathe. He took a long quiet moment to collect himself before his eyes moved over to the screen again. The words swirled around and danced in the face of his heavily compromised focus. Eventually, it sank in. His face went a bit blank, as though he hadn't believed what he'd just read. He couldn't even find the energy to be angry.

He had a few false starts to get his voice under control after all that screaming. "'The electric chair was invented by a man of what profession?' Aaaah... is sadist a profession because that's probably it." His head was many leagues from being screwed on straight.

[unquestionable]

And just like that, any relief he had felt disappeared in the blink of an eye. There was no way he could get that question right. He almost wondered if he had put a jynx on them because of his previous answer. If only he'd had the necklace Haruko had given him, maybe their luck would have been better... but it was what it was, and they had to face it.

Rather, Ryu hoped that he would be the one to face it.

"Hidari," he spoke evenly, "if I get this wrong, let me take the shock."

He hesitated just slightly, but knew he had to keep going if he had any chance of making his point.

"People need you alive. Philip needs you alive. I have nothing to lose."

[tanteiotaku]

Somehow he let out a derisive chuckle. Terui had come a long way in a short time. As he spoke sometimes his breath caught and he had to stop. But he pushed onward. "If Philip is in your seat, he'll be fine. He's got a brain full of random stuff he couldn't forget if he tried.

"If he ends up in mine, I know he's gonna make the right decision," he had no doubt in his mind.

"Sorry, Terui. If I did anything different I'd never be able to look the Boss or anyone at home in the eye ever again." He let his eyes flutter closed, as though he were just waiting for it.

[unquestionable]

"Damn it, Hidari!" The only crutch he had for what he knew was coming was to be angry. Yelling at him wouldn't change their positions, but his rage was all he had left. Stupidly he fought the restraints for a second time, but even if by some way he were to get them loose he wouldn't know what to do. It would be too late to save Hidari by then.

He cursed again, louder this time, hating how helpless he was. Despite everything, it seemed that being unable to save anyone was the despair he was meant to live with. Just like with his family, all he could do was watch as death took it's victim.

[tanteiotaku]

"On with it, Terui!" he shouted at him. "Make a guess. There's a chance you might actually stumble into the answer." A slim one, but the answer wasn't actually all that obscure. And depending on your point of view on dentists, Shotaro may have actually given him a hint.

[unquestionable]

His thoughts raced, but he could hardly think straight long enough to even make that guess. What would make sense? What would be logical? For someone to invent the electric chair they would have to know something about science, something about the people who would end up there, something about... something about what? He didn't know and it made him want to scream.

"Psychologist." He managed to spit out the word as if he was under control of himself, but anyone who was looking close enough would find genuine fear in his eyes. Shotaro Hidari was going to die, and it was his fault.

[tanteiotaku]

"No," he responded simply. "It was a dentist. I even gave you a clue."

But whoever was in charge of enforcing the shocks already knew Shotaro had no intention of following through. He barely got those words out before his body jerked and his chair hummed.

His body, compromised as it was, didn't last long during that final shock. It was only a few seconds before blood ran out of his nose and his lips. His body still jerked, but only out of muscle reflex. The unmistakable smell of scorched hair and flesh was a last confirmation that yes, he was dead.

[unquestionable]

"What the hell kind of hint--" He didn't even have time to argue with him before the electricity began taking over his body for the second time. Ryu's eyes widened and he sat speechless for a stunned second before he started screaming Hidari's name. He knew that he had allowed himself to care too much, and now the guilt spreading through him was just as real as the shock waves.

He breathed heavily through his nose, his regret melting to anger as Hidari's own screaming ceased. He stared at the body, his steeled expression hiding just how much he hated to look at it. But he had to. He had to remember just what it looked like so he would never be tempted to award the Warden an ounce of his mercy.