Last Summer

[artsyGeek]

[Gumball, who had returned earlier off-text, thinks for a moment, before. .]

". .okay, so. Who here thinks they might be strong enough to tear a head? Raise your hand. . and hope to God it's not just you alone."

[Florien]

Well, I certainly could, if I tried, and was interested in ripping off someone's head, which I am assuredly not. Jason is extremely strong as well, Lars, we don't know their strength, especially with that mechanical arm, so it's quite possible. Sollux has mind-powers, I think, so he could have used those, Dale's quite mad and could easily use the strength of sheer perpetual terror to back himself... and of course, given enough time, most anyone else could work someone's head off. And then there's every chance the Citrus-flavored one had a frail neck.

[Kennifer]

ii 2uppo2e ii could probably do that 2ort of thiing wiith my telekiinetiic abiiliitiie2 but ii am not about two try two demon2trate 2iince iit would kiill whoever ii diid iit two. needle22 two 2ay iit2 not 2omethiing iive triied.

>Take a look at Jason, does he look like he's either got fresh blood on him or that he could've been cleaning off his clothes?

[LavenderDream]

"My robot arm is just for grabbing things at a distance. It's just as strong as my other arm. But, I do see that your theory has some points."

>Do Jason's gloves have blood on them?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

[color=yellow] Wasn't me. I'm not strong enough to rip someone's head off, even with an adrenaline rush. But you... [/cor]

> Look at Big Ben and see if he's clean

[Zanreo]

"Not me either! I couldn't do such a thing even if I wanted... I think..."

[Florien]

Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do. We have no real idea who could have done it. After all, the rules of this prison are arbitrary as could be. From what I understand, anyone could break a neck in this place, so who's to say anyone couldn't tear off a head? I move that we should really come to a decision about what to do soon.

[MadeOfMilk]

> Does Jason have blood on him?

No he does not. In terms of cleanliness he simply looks exactly the way he did the day before.

> Does Big Ben have blood on him?

No he does not. Both him and Jason look exactly the same as they did the day before.

[Florien]

I think we should Annex Hawaii. That might solve the problems at hand here. Unless anyone has better ideas.

/Vote The Kingdom of Hawaii

[artsyGeek]

"WHY HAWAII????"

[Florien]

You see, if we Annex Hawaii, we can do island things, like... look at salt-water, I suppose. And touch sand. And perhaps touch salt-water too. But also, we'll have more space. A whole island chain worth of space! And Hawaii is right there in the middle of the ocean, with very little else around, so it's an optimal place to store various ships, I think. We could also farm various tropical plants, such as sugarcane, there. A thriving rum industry is only a few mere decades away! "Why Hawaii?" you ask? "Why Not Hawaii?" I reply! And the best part, it's several islands, so we could make it into several states!

[MadeOfMilk]

....Mr. President, the entire state of Hawaii is not a participant in this game. Come to think of it, killing all those people in a sufficiently gruesome manner sounds like a nightmare to do.

In the office, the Counselor sighs and begrudgingly enters "Kingdom of Hawaii" into the vote calculation program.

[artsyGeek]

". .oh for goodness sake."

/vote Big Ben out of frustration

[Florien]

NO! Join me! You must vote for the Kingdom of Hawaii! Think of how tired our captor's arms will be after manually going there to attempt to kill every person there! Their arms will all be so tired we can overpower them easily, stop them from ever harming another, and walk out the door! Annexing Hawaii will really solve all our problems!

[artsyGeek]

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII?????"

[Florien]

It's an inhabited island chain in the middle of the pacific ocean. It has a tropical climate, a volcano on one of the islands, and a queen who rules the chain of islands. Well, she won't after we annex it, but currently it has a queen.

It's quite isolated too, but has a lot of land area for some islands. And you should vote for it because of all of these things. It's composed entirely of hazards and tedious busywork for our captors, and by voting for it, they're obligated to go there and do all that tedious, hazardous, busywork.

[artsyGeek]

"I-IT'S NOT PART OF THIS FRICKING GROUP YOU DUMBIE!!!"

[Dookie]

“I Uh…I uh….I….I…I don't….”

/what

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Sharles just stares at Big Ben, confounded. Uh, dude. Hawaii's not a kingdom, it's a state. For like, vacations and tacky shirts and-are we just voting the states now?

/vote Wisconsin

[LavenderDream]

"howthefuckarewevotingstatesandshitnowareyalldumb"
/vote Big Ben Harrison

[Kennifer]

ii have no iidea what youre talkiing about wiith thii2 2tate 2tuff, iim from another planet iin a diifferent uniiver2e.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

No! We must go after the real problem: the government.

/vote Washington DC

[Weirdguy149]

“You know what? You make the teenagers I kill on a regular basis look like scholars, can we please get back to business?”

[Florien]

Well I'm sorry that you all can't see the genius of this plan. You heard our captor writing something. Adding the Kingdom of Hawaii to the list of places to execute if it gets enough votes, no doubt. And MY GOD Lars, you know what's really suspicious here? You. You, out of nowhere, decided to vote for my death. To a lesser extent Gumball Cookie, but I think he's just a little paranoid.

The plan is to get them to feel obligated to execute an inhabited state, territory, kingdom, or what have you. They will begrudgingly do that, become extremely tired because it is a lot of miserable work, and then we can kill the three of them and leave with no further risk to ourselves or others. And yes, I'm saying this plan aloud, because I'm sure they're busy thinking "haha, we'll prove the president wrong, even if people did go with his plan, we'd be too amazing to get tired from going all the way to hawaii, killing everything on the dangerous island of hawaii and the surrounding islands, and coming all the way back, thousands of miles both ways." and then WE'LL prove THEM wrong.

It's an ingenious plan! In Big Ben's head. Maybe it's not so Ingenious to other people, but he certainly thinks it's very clever.

[Kennifer]

that 2eem2 pretty ab2urd two me, ii dont know what iit ha2 two do wiith fiindiing out whiich of u2 are kiiller2, whiich ii2 what ii thought we were 2uppo2ed two be doiing.

al2o your plan end2 up wiith a lot more people dyiing than are trapped iin thii2 arcade. although maybe we could make them thiink we want two go there two execute everyone and ju2t have a niice tropiical vacatiion iin2tead.

Sollux is just... confused. Does Big Ben think this will help, or is he stalling for time? (He also kinda wishes Ben would stop referring to the hosts as their captors because he keeps wondering for half a second if he's being addressed by his last name, but that's neither here nor there.)