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Sadistic Choice Meme
"This is why only fools are heroes - because you never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice."
This always seems to happen to heroes, sometimes depressingly so: but it's not only heroes who have to deal with them. Sometimes perfectly normal people have to face these choices as well, and how they answer the varied possibilities defines them.
So make your choice, and suffer the consequences.
There will be triggers here.
Note: It doesn't have to be a choice between deaths, there are all sorts of unfortunate and terrible things that could be used as a threat for the party that isn't 'chosen'. While death is default, there's no need to necessarily use that if another works.
Step One: Post with your character blah blah...be sure to note which choices you don't want to have to deal with.
Step Two: Someone else rolls up a choice and an outcome bonus and tags!
Step Three: Work out how the two of you will interact with the choice. Is one of you an option? Are both? Are you both being given the choice between other people? Is one issuing the choice, perhaps? Whatever works! Also working out the threat, too, would be good. (Poison with one antidote, a fraying rope, armed guards, whatever)
Step Four: Note that assumed CR and AU is great in this meme, and if the character lacks family/friends/loved ones/a preoccupation with children, pick something they'd react similarly to. (Or make up something to fill the gap)
Step Five: Immortals and the like, for whatever reason, can be assumed to be overcome somehow by the threat.
Step Six: Make your choice.
Choices
This or That:
1 - Save the life of the friend of the lover: On one hand you have a dear friend, on the other, the love interest. Only one will survive, which one will it be?
2 - Triangle's brutal end: Feeling a bit like you've got too many options in your romantic life? Let's make it simple--which one would you like to die the least?
3 - Save many or one: Whether it's one dear person or one helpless innocent, it's a choice between saving them or a whole crowd of people. Perhaps even a world.
4 - Save the many or the children: Where are your morals now? There may or may not be an equal number of children to adults in danger, but both groups are innocent (and the 'many' may be allies and friends) and helpless, and only one is getting a rescuer today.
5 - Save a stranger or a friend: Whether it be a child or a random innocent, it's either them or someone very dear, perhaps even a lover.
6 - Two equals: Whether they be two strangers, two friends, two family members, or two lovers you've actually reconciled with, they're exactly equal. And they say favoritism isn't universal!
7 - Love or family: Be it a child, parent, or sibling (or one 'like' it) which is more weighty? Blood or love?
8 - You or Them: No more tests of moral, just survival instinct. Either you die, or someone else does.
9 - Your dream or your ideal: There is no death here, death would be too crude. Either give up the most important thing you have now, or give up your most important dream for something you could have.
10 - Love lies bleeding: Either break the heart of the one you love and leave, or allow someone else to make them suffer, perhaps even die.
11 - Silence is Golden: A generous choice: You can prevent some painful thing from happening, be it torture or some sort of humiliation, if you simply convince your friend/family/love that it did happen. Or it can happen and they can be shielded from it. (Don't rule out it becoming You or Them or a Trick Question if the result isn't entertaining enough to the one presenting the choice)
12 - In Cold Blood: Save one or many or even some sort of ideal or dream, whatever is important to you...but it can only be done by doing some horrible deed to someone with your own hands (Shoot the captor, steal from the innocent, give candy to children...whatever is abhorrent to them)
13 - Deal with the Devil: There is not quick choice out--Either become allies with the enemy and do their bidding until they free you, or whatever is being held hostage will be destroyed. At any time.
Outcome Bonus -
1 - Trick Question: No matter what you choose, even the third option, there's a back up plan and both sacrifices happen anyway.
2 - Look to the East: It doesn't matter what choice your character makes, before the unfortunate thing can happen a rescue arrives! Everyone is happy!
3 - There is No Third Option: No matter what the character tries to do, there's no way to prevent both, and attempting to do so may only trigger #1 to happen. Or it might not, but either way, there is no option c.
4 - All On Your Head: Save one or the other or both if the character is clever or lucky enough, or neither if the character waffles too much, no outside influence will work one way or the other. It's completely up to their choice.
"This is why only fools are heroes - because you never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice."
This always seems to happen to heroes, sometimes depressingly so: but it's not only heroes who have to deal with them. Sometimes perfectly normal people have to face these choices as well, and how they answer the varied possibilities defines them.
So make your choice, and suffer the consequences.
There will be triggers here.
Note: It doesn't have to be a choice between deaths, there are all sorts of unfortunate and terrible things that could be used as a threat for the party that isn't 'chosen'. While death is default, there's no need to necessarily use that if another works.
Step One: Post with your character blah blah...be sure to note which choices you don't want to have to deal with.
Step Two: Someone else rolls up a choice and an outcome bonus and tags!
Step Three: Work out how the two of you will interact with the choice. Is one of you an option? Are both? Are you both being given the choice between other people? Is one issuing the choice, perhaps? Whatever works! Also working out the threat, too, would be good. (Poison with one antidote, a fraying rope, armed guards, whatever)
Step Four: Note that assumed CR and AU is great in this meme, and if the character lacks family/friends/loved ones/a preoccupation with children, pick something they'd react similarly to. (Or make up something to fill the gap)
Step Five: Immortals and the like, for whatever reason, can be assumed to be overcome somehow by the threat.
Step Six: Make your choice.
Choices
This or That:
1 - Save the life of the friend of the lover: On one hand you have a dear friend, on the other, the love interest. Only one will survive, which one will it be?
2 - Triangle's brutal end: Feeling a bit like you've got too many options in your romantic life? Let's make it simple--which one would you like to die the least?
3 - Save many or one: Whether it's one dear person or one helpless innocent, it's a choice between saving them or a whole crowd of people. Perhaps even a world.
4 - Save the many or the children: Where are your morals now? There may or may not be an equal number of children to adults in danger, but both groups are innocent (and the 'many' may be allies and friends) and helpless, and only one is getting a rescuer today.
5 - Save a stranger or a friend: Whether it be a child or a random innocent, it's either them or someone very dear, perhaps even a lover.
6 - Two equals: Whether they be two strangers, two friends, two family members, or two lovers you've actually reconciled with, they're exactly equal. And they say favoritism isn't universal!
7 - Love or family: Be it a child, parent, or sibling (or one 'like' it) which is more weighty? Blood or love?
8 - You or Them: No more tests of moral, just survival instinct. Either you die, or someone else does.
9 - Your dream or your ideal: There is no death here, death would be too crude. Either give up the most important thing you have now, or give up your most important dream for something you could have.
10 - Love lies bleeding: Either break the heart of the one you love and leave, or allow someone else to make them suffer, perhaps even die.
11 - Silence is Golden: A generous choice: You can prevent some painful thing from happening, be it torture or some sort of humiliation, if you simply convince your friend/family/love that it did happen. Or it can happen and they can be shielded from it. (Don't rule out it becoming You or Them or a Trick Question if the result isn't entertaining enough to the one presenting the choice)
12 - In Cold Blood: Save one or many or even some sort of ideal or dream, whatever is important to you...but it can only be done by doing some horrible deed to someone with your own hands (Shoot the captor, steal from the innocent, give candy to children...whatever is abhorrent to them)
13 - Deal with the Devil: There is not quick choice out--Either become allies with the enemy and do their bidding until they free you, or whatever is being held hostage will be destroyed. At any time.
Outcome Bonus -
1 - Trick Question: No matter what you choose, even the third option, there's a back up plan and both sacrifices happen anyway.
2 - Look to the East: It doesn't matter what choice your character makes, before the unfortunate thing can happen a rescue arrives! Everyone is happy!
3 - There is No Third Option: No matter what the character tries to do, there's no way to prevent both, and attempting to do so may only trigger #1 to happen. Or it might not, but either way, there is no option c.
4 - All On Your Head: Save one or the other or both if the character is clever or lucky enough, or neither if the character waffles too much, no outside influence will work one way or the other. It's completely up to their choice.