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Broca ([personal profile] broca) wrote2024-01-01 09:53 pm
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OPEN SEASON
@broca
28 / male / i don't care / 7♥︎
Details
My Self-Summary

I'm not interested in talking about myself here. If you want to learn about me, fine. Do it in person.

My Future Plans

I plan to leave this place as soon as I can.

My Talents

I'm decent at handicrafts, woodworking, retrofitting and other types of customizations.

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and Food


Favorite Books: Don't have one

Favorite Movie: Don't have one

Favorite Music: Most music is fine

Favorite Food: Siracusan cuisine

My Ideal Partner

I'm not interested in a partner. I will have sex with you if it helps us both.

Height 189cm Body Type I exercise regularly Smokes No Drinks Decent wine, whiskey or vodka Drugs No Sign - Education - Occupation Rhodes Island Operator Income - Children No Pets No Hobbies Crafting, woodworking, retrofitting, reading
art credit: one. two. three. four. five.
01. WINE OR BEER
Wine

.02 CLOWNS OR MIMES
Neither

.03 SHOWER OR BATH
Shower

.04 PIRATES OR NINJAS
Don't care

.05 TITS OR ASS
Either

.06 COFFEE OR TEA
Coffee

.07 SPICY OR SWEET
Spicy

.08 SUMMER OR WINTER
Doesn't matter

.09 LEATHER OR LACE
Leather

10. ROUGH SEX OR GENTLE SEX
I refuse to answer this

Personality Type
Your full personality type code is INTJ-T
ENERGY
82%
introverted
MIND
61%
intuitive
NATURE
54%
thinking
TACTICS
63%
judging
IDENTITY
54%
turbulent
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[personal profile] unrequite 2024-09-13 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Midnight cants his head at Broca. ]

From that perspective, no one and nothing in the world needs enemies at all. And yet, invariably, situations wherein enemies exist flourish.

[ Midnight sticks a hand in his pocket, thinking for a moment. ]

Suppose for a moment that the goal of this game — that is, a part of the main purpose of the game makers — was for no one to make enemies of each other at all. If that is the case, then why make the game a matter of individuals pitted against individuals? It would be much easier to pit us all against a common enemy, for instance. If the house is meant to be that common enemy, then why make a game where colluding with the house is rewarded?

[ Midnight shrugs. ]

The problem lies in your premise, I think. Rather than a situation where the house's goal is to let us win, I believe that the house's goal is to keep the game going indefinitely. Meaning, naturally, that winning the game doesn't necessarily end it. At worst, winning the game means nothing at all.
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[personal profile] broca 2024-09-15 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For the most part Broca is listening quietly to Midnight's thoughts on this matter. Trying to determine people's motivations for things has never been something he's exceptionally skilled at, because people's real motives are usually more opaque and nuanced than they are in say, a book, where a narrative will line up neatly to make everything make sense.

What the House could actually be after is hard for him to say if they're not going to just come out and say it, but people fucking endlessly doesn't seem right. He could see if it was something that powered them, or something they somehow made a profit off of, and even this makes some degree of sense despite the fact that he doesn't understand what they get out of it all in the first place.

But the last comment has him furrowing his brows in deep contemplation. He's considered the possibility before that winning won't actually get him anywhere. They didn't promise that winning would get you home, after all. It's just an avenue he's also attempting while looking for other ways out that don't involve fucking over 52 different people during his stay here.

He's annoyed but not completely put off by the suggestion that it might get him the results he wants, but... ]

Wouldn't that end the game anyway? Knowing there's no real prize.

[ Someone finds out it's total bunk, then who is going to keep bothering to play? ]
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[personal profile] unrequite 2024-09-17 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It would, of course.

[ ... Midnight looks over at Broca. He's grinning slightly. ]

So, of course, if the point is to continue playing the game ad infinitum, there must be a consequence for stopping. A few consequences come to mind for me, Operator. How about you?

[ Suit flares, for one; for another, changes in rank and the changes in one's quality of life with it. ]

It still isn't really about the sex, mind, but the continuation of the game... That certainly is enforced. The game is more of a facade for what is actually coercion.

[ ... Midnight really shouldn't be saying something like that so cheerfully. ]
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[personal profile] broca 2024-09-28 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Some people have played fast and loose with the consequences that have gone beyond just the suit flares. Broca himself hasn't actually bothered with avoiding sex himself, but the consequences do seem like they can go well past the inconvenient when things get truly bad.

His ears twitch back, not quite fully flat against his skull, but certain pressed back enough to make it clear he's not happy thinking about this fact. The coercion is... annoying, but he's probably not as bothered about it as he should be. He'd be far less so if he knew there it was the answer to getting out of here. ]

Why this game in particular though?
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