[text] un: halfmoon

[shatteredeclipse]

Thought experiment!

Suppose there's a game you can play, where the prize is one wish, virtually unlimited. The thing you want the most out of life can be yours. To play the game, the game orchestrator gives you a special coin, and you flip it once. Heads: You get your wish. Tails: You pay a price.

Version 1: The price is your life.
Version 2: The price is the life of someone in your family.
Version 3: The price is the person who you care about the most.

Which versions would you play? What would you wish for?



This got dark and kinda personal, so feel free not to answer! Or to be vague about the specifics or what you're wishing for or whose life you're risking. It's just an icebreaker topic for a new social group, or whatever. Hi, I'm Luna, if you've seen a moth person around, I'm the moth.

For me, I'd play version 2, but probably not version 1, and I'm on the fence about version 3. The problem is that I'm just not 100% sure what I'd wish for yet.

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

version 1 and my ex 2b alive again that was easy hi luna im church

[shatteredeclipse]

not even considerin 2/3?
like you dont got a shitty uncle who youd trade for ur ex

luciferskylight

[burninglight]

tough call. definitely version one, but i’m not sure what i’d wish fo either.

nice to meet you, i’m ardyn.

[shatteredeclipse]

its not like theres nothing i rly want
i just dunno which one would be the best, specially if i can also kill a family member

[nojohnyouare]

...I want to say one. That's how some things work at home anyway. Only different.

[shatteredeclipse]

lots of people willing to die for the cause
i guess id be lyin if i said i dont get it

UN: quicksilver80

[photoshooter]

1
unless family only means blood relations in which case lol i'll take 2.

[shatteredeclipse]

finally someone picked something other than 1!!!
family is complicated
sometimes its important
sometimes its a problem

The_Wizard

[tomatowizard]

Assuming anyone here would be willing to gamble with the life of their lover or family, it still would take a lot of courage to ADMIT to being cold hearted enough to do that in a public forum.

[shatteredeclipse]

i guess i just did that so like
r u calling me cold hearted or brave

un: SunDrake

[thedarkheir]

1 - there's no one I hate enough... though I wonder... (・_・ヾ NVM

As for a wish, is it the type that does as you want or a monkey's paw situation?

[shatteredeclipse]

suppose u dont know either way

un Hangar Princess

[hurt_comforting]

This seems less hypothetical than I’d like now that I think about it. My life back home was 1 and 2 in practice, or at least pushing the odds above a coinflip.

Not 3, though. That honor probably only extends to one of our merry men, though to be fair I disrecommend the pleasure of meeting his father.

[shatteredeclipse]

i dont think i want to meet the man himself either

un: thereaper

[shipoutofluck]

I'd probably punch the orchestrator in the face and leave.

[shatteredeclipse]

so thats 1 vote for no deal

un:pidonus

[have_hat_will_travel]

If I were seriously offer this, I would scream and run away as fast as possible.

I have encountered Genies, I know better than to make wishes anywhere in earshot of them.

[shatteredeclipse]

between u and me i think that's the best answer

un: selfrecurrent

[plentyfriendly]

Why leave things to chance?

[shatteredeclipse]

because u get a free wish out of it??
i thought that was gonna b pretty tempting

[nor_iron_bars]

can i steal the coin? fuck this 1 wish shit, i wanna have a magic wish coin.

[shatteredeclipse]

lmao the game master grants the wish not the coin

UN: RossoFantasma

[redmeguca]

If I was ever dumb enough to trust a wish granter again?

2. I haven't got any to lose, so I'm working the system.

[shatteredeclipse]

that does make things easier
damn i didnt think of that

elevencrows;;

[founderinglight]

Not a one. Even were I willing to ever pay such a price, the only wish I have is something which, by its very nature, I must accomplish with my own efforts.

[shatteredeclipse]

must b nice having all ur shit sorted out

improvisedfate;;

[bloodyashes]

For '2a' choosing which family member, absolutely. Random, not a chance.

[shatteredeclipse]

any idea what youd wish for or is this just a way to kill ur last favorite relative

[bastilashan]

[Bastila thinks long and hard about that one.]

2A, I guess. You might say I am willing to trade one family members' life for another.

It is her fault he is gone. I do not know if he would want me trading my life for his. I could not trade the person I care about most. Still, I would want to be sure that everything turned out exactly as I expected. I would not want any element of uncertainty or chance in the bargain.

[shatteredeclipse]

oh that makes sense
but i mean theres an element of chance in the bargain by default
its a coin flip

un: daybreak

[hairpincurves]

It'd be no deal for me. I'd need more information about the circumstances of the wish (like does the wish get fulfilled to the spirit or the letter? because those can be very different!), but even then, none of those prices seem like it'd be worth it to me.

[shatteredeclipse]

makes sense makes sense
i mean depending on what kinda wish u got

[stormkingofshepherds]

None of them. There are causes worth dying for, but dying in a fight is different from just giving up your life.

Besides, I've wanted to die for long enough. I'm not going to get back into bad habits.

[shatteredeclipse]

fair enough fair enough
would u do it if u had to death fight a guy exactly strong enough to give u a 50% chance of winning

text: ravusnoxfleuret

[giltfoil]

Any version. They are already dead, so it would be worth the risk.

[shatteredeclipse]

u have good spelling for a dead guy