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[equivo]

Before we all head into the labyrinth, I figure we should have a level playing field for making calls about risk.

If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.

The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.

In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.

Comments

[equivo]

I didn't die personally, if that's what you're asking.

[onlychildsyndrome]

I'm asking how you know. How do you know it's true?

[equivo]

[ Smart question. ]

I trust my sources.

Which is another way of saying that I believe it's true, but I can't prove it.

If you're wondering why you should believe me: I'm not asking you to. Not like I can be convincing with the evidence I've got, can I?

[onlychildsyndrome]

It'd be a pretty smart lie, you know? If only a few worlds can survive or whatever, then telling the other competitors that they'll come back to life would be a way to thin the herd.

[equivo]

Smart in the short term, stupid in the long term.

The best case scenario, if I was lying, is a couple people get less careful, maybe die. Then as soon as anyone figured out I was lying, I'm the guy who got people killed with false information. How does that work out for me?

[onlychildsyndrome]

Play it out, dude. People die, they don't come back, they come at you. You say "Hey, I trusted this person who told me they'd died." And then they go to that other person who can either deny they told you shit which would create tension, or they confirm that they died and came back and then you go "Oh shit, I thought that's what happened every time, but maybe it was a fluke." and neither of you suffer any long-term consequences for bullshitting.

[equivo]

That'd involve naming my sources, and if I was going to do that, this hypothetical strikes me as a lot of complicated effort in exchange maybe getting a minor advantage - versus the high possibility it goes badly for me.

That said, I guess it's not out of the question. Except we just covered the whole thing in public, so there goes my Machiavellian scheme.

And I almost got away with it too, if not for that meddling kid.

[onlychildsyndrome]

You still can. You just gotta commit to your version of it.

[equivo]

I'll pass.

Fun as this is, for the record, I'd prefer it if people don't take this as license to get themselves killed even with the safety net. I'm not going out and changing my strategy over it.

[onlychildsyndrome]

Eeeeeh, I don't have a strategy. Kinda stupid the all-knowing AI had to bring us here to decide if we're worth saving. She should know already, this is just putting mice in a murder maze for fun.

[equivo]

Aren't you cynical?

What if it's all about the spirit of fairness? Before now, you didn't know you were being watched by the all-powerful AI. Could be we'll all put in that extra bit of effort to get ourselves to 110% of our mousy capabilities in the murder maze now that we know we're being judged. Perform more admirably under pressure.

Probably not, but you never know.

[onlychildsyndrome]

if you're only playing nice bc ur being watched then how does that make you worthy or whatever? it just means you'll be a massive shit the second there's no punishment.

this whole thing's just a mind game

[equivo]

Is that really that different from how people behave outside of here?

Not that I'm judging opting out. It's your universe. Your call if you think it's worth playing mind games for or not.