[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

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]

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

[nojohnyouare]

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

[motherfucking_ghost]

kinda depends on definition of family its complicated but nah def 1 4sure

[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

[shatteredeclipse]

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

[nojohnyouare]

It's better than the other options. Though thinking that way causes problems, too.

[burninglight]

rather fallen out of the habit of wanting to kill most of my family, personally

could think of a few things my life’s worth risking, but i don’t think i’d go through with it

UN: quicksilver80

[photoshooter]

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

[shatteredeclipse]

deaths scary!
ive just had it hanging over me since before i was born so like
if it happens it happens kinda

[burninglight]

oh it’s not a question of being afraid. death’s not so bad once you’ve done it a handful of times. i just can’t justify doing that when nothing i’d wish for outweighs that i told someone i’d live for a change.

sorry to hear that, though. don’t tell me you’re another kid with a prophecy to deal with?

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.

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]

familys a complicated thing so i get u
congrats, your a big hero

[shatteredeclipse]

prophecy? no those are fake
where im from at least
lets just say that the family i was born into doesnt take kindly to failures

[shatteredeclipse]

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

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.

un: thereaper

[shipoutofluck]

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

[motherfucking_ghost]

aw shucks i try but hypatheticaly if family wasnt complicated would we get 2 choose who dies in 2 r is it rng

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.

un: selfrecurrent

[plentyfriendly]

Why leave things to chance?

[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

[shatteredeclipse]

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