Remember when bunnies were simply cute and fluffy? Me neither. Let's Play Virtue's Last Reward!

Unfortunately, Sigma's flashbacks have all been replaced by the next episode previews for a cheesy anime action thriller, so no useful information was gleaned.

Except that he got Phi to hug him. I found that more amazing than the explosion.

That would have been absolutely awesome.

When I read Sigme likes cats, I kinda thought: hey, maybe he's not so bad after all.
Then he turned into a Disney princess...
And he got hugged by Phi...

What happened to Sigme when I wasn't looking? :o

Just kidding. Sigme didn't die from a flashback. Or premonition. Or whatever it was.









And you hugged him! It only took impending death, but you did it!



No lie!







VOLDEMORT IS NEAR.





Smooth.

I vote Ally, once again. Alice hasn't given us a reason to distrust her and she can't escape if she betrays us, so I think it's best for us to look trustworthy to the others.
Let's all be friends so we can backstab you guys when you don't expect it :D
I kinda would've liked to be locked in with K forever, but since there's a bomb, forever'd be kinda short...

You know...the most logical and reasonable approach to the Ambidex Game is for no one to ever go into the rooms. If you don't vote, you're automatically set to ally. If no one goes into the rooms, there's no option for anyone to betray, and therefore everyone always gets 2 BP a round. Stay in triads or larger at all other times to fend off the murderin's , suffer through the puzzles, and just wait for everyone to get 9 points. Walk out.

I thought of that too, but there's a reason why they don't all not vote. Or rather, can't. Not that the players themselves know yet. Remember, Zero III does have a tendency not to tell us important things like rules. What happens when you break the rules?

But not voting is explicitly counted for in the rules, so I'm not sure it'd be against them. It might be - that is one psychotic bunny - but it /seems/ like it would be within the letter of the law, if not the spirit. And, really, screw the spirit, since the game was developed by a psycho.

I'm not going to spoiler tag this since it's not plot-related, but at some point we find out that yet another rule Zero neglects to tell us is that at least one member out of each group of three must vote. If this rule is broken, everyone in that group is penalised. Zero Jr. exists to rain on our parade. :C

Alice voted to ally in the last round right? Although, that may have been because clover was the opponent.

I vote ally as well.

Huh. If I was in that group, I'd say that Zero Jr. was making up these rules as he went along. You know, to mess with the prisoner's minds a little.

Pfft, probably. "Crap, they found a loophole. Better threaten them with death!"

*fistshakes* CURSE YOU, ZERO!

I'm going to vote ALLY because I can. And besides...

Also voting Ally.

Eh, what the hell. Alice hasn't given us a reason to not trust her yet, so what could possibly go wrong? Ally it is.

I vote Ally! I mean even if she does betray us at least we would have knocked off that bad end right? Also I now have the urge to contradict anyone who decides to give a logic spiel to convince Sigme to make a decision.

My brother has been teasing me by owning this game and me not having a 3DS for months now ;_; Thank you for LPing it *hugs creepily*

Anyway, because I love Alice I choose Ally

And finally, K riding the kiddie ride totally made my night, the random things your partners would do while investigating has always been my favourite parts of 999 but that just took the cake XD

Let's go with Ally because dem boobies why not?

The gates open and everyone else runs toward the results monitor. As before, Phi pulls Sigme aside to rage at him for not listening to her.



There's just no way to explain that Sigme had eight voices telling him to do it without sounding crazy.



So sharing his aspiration to be an otome protagonist should sound more credible.



I know, I tried to talk him out of it but all that talk about romancing K really got to him.



We already did find out. And were locked in the facility for all eternity for our trouble.



Oh, she meant the AB Game. Carry on.



Shit is totally going down and we're invited.

At this point, I'd like to mention that the advice I provided earlier on the Prisoner's Dilemma assumes you're not in a story wherein everyone else is a complete tool, more or less at random to mess over the PC. Just an FYI. ;)

Also, wow. Dio is in the only group where neither side voted Betray. Did Quark somehow sedate him?

Maybe it's just me, but her default expression looks a hell of a lot more smug here for some reason.





Here it is again. This terrible thing called 'logic'.



Well, it is Sigme. His name is practically synonymous with 'idiot' by now. But he's our idiot.



At least we have a heart! Even if you do have a literal heart you got stabbed last time anyway HAHAHA okay that was a low blow.



I changed my mind. TAKE ALL OF THE LOW BLOWS. ALL OF THEM.



FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU



Don't you start, Phi.



Kick a dude while he's down, why don't you. :C



YOU MADE HIM CRY, YOU MONSTERS.

This game is going to be nothing but a never ending series of speeches about how YOU CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY ANYONE WHO TRUSTS SOMEONE IS A FOOL YOU IDIOT PEOPLE ARE ALL EVIL SCUM! isn't it?

The sort of thing that makes you think the writer dashed it off in a week after his girlfriend dumped him.

Silly Sigme, Trix are for kids trusting people is for otome protags. I hope you learned your lesson

You...You traitor!

T-T

Otome games and manga has clearly made me too soft. The "I believe in you" card obviously doesn't apply here T-T.

Now that Alice and Phi have successfully made us feel bad, let us bask in the secondhand warm fuzzies of Team Yellow Door.



That smile isn't for us anymore. Sadfacing so hard. But mad respect for Luna and her level of bro-ness that managed to make even Dio ally.





...spoke too soon.



Cease your lies!



Wait. What? I wasn't talking to you.

Did they just make poor Sigme cry? like legitimately? Sigme really is turning into an otomoe protagonist isn't he?
Well I guess now we know how an otome protagonist would function in a life and death situation where the love interests are more interested in protecting their hides than getting into protag's pants.

Ninja'd by update.
Also Luna you are all sorts of adorable.

Are we talking about the same guy here?
Also, I doubt that Dio would choose Ally out of his own free will. What exactly did Quark do? I got my eyes on ya, kid.

I'm more suspicious of Dio, myself... Why'd Quark take back what he said?
I really do wonder what happened to make them vote differently this time. Maybe the force of Luna's innocence just makes it impossible to be mean to her.

And we're definitely in trouble now. One point left... Let's hope none of the others is cruel enough to kill us for points, eh?

Alice, you liking that post made me laugh so hard. Thanks for making my day. xD

You're welcome. :)

In other news, I finished this game a couple of days ago and I have a question.

Fair enough.

Over to Team Magenta Door. Let there be shitstorms!



...why does that sound familiar?

You have got to be kidding me.





Why does no one ever get upset at being betrayed by Clover!? (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Events go on as in this post where the players learn about the whole death by bracelet thing. The only noticeable difference is that Alice does not rage at Zero III for hiding the rules because she's not the one at risk this time asdjsdfhdjgh I need to go flip more tables. Look at some bracelets in the meantime.



















Aw yiss. Paired with Luna. Our opponent is practically guaranteed to ally!

Yep, that's what I meant.

For everyone who has completed the game, I just wanted to ask your opinions on how to proceed in the LP concerning some upcoming events.

So that the people who haven't completed the game don't feel left out, do you want to see two or four character endings? Be warned that the more endings we aim for, the more jumping back and forward between routes we'll have to do, and it might get somewhat confusing to keep track. Be further warned that since we have to do/see very particular things to unlock locks, there'd be no further audience input.