BR Day 8 - Be reasonable

Unfortunately, Adella is right.

The best thing you can do for you team, and for yourself and Beth is to stay focused on soccer and win.

You sigh, but Beth knows it too.

"You aren't going to get in the way at the Lodge, are you?" You ask Adella.

"You sound pretty sure that you'll win," Adella replies.

"I'll win," you promise her. "You make sure that you do too."

"I plan on it. As for what your girlfriend does, realizing how much better she can do, for example... I can't control that," Adella says.

"Yeah," you say. "It's a shame she's on Blue Team. She could do better, couldn't she?"

You got her. Adella snorts and walks with you two back to camp, where you kiss Beth before separating.

Is Adella going to try something? Not before the game. After that, though? You will have to be careful. You meet up with Tiff and Lara to make plans. Even if you don't know who your opponent is, you can talk about strengths and weaknesses and plan tomorrow's drills.

At dinner, your team is anxious. They know this activity is coming, and the big gymnasium has been closed off from everyone... they are doing something in there.

After you eat, you gather in a classroom with Tiff, who has your practice uniforms from yesterday: the skimpy, sexy ones that you wore for the obstacle course. They're clean... but you know what this means.

"It's a pillow fight," Tiff tells you all.

"A what?" Lara asks, looking bewildered. "Are they bloody serious?"

"Yes," Tiff says, and it looks like she doesn't approve any more than you do. "A pillow fight. One person from each team goes in... so there will be six people on the thing they set up, and you try to knock each other off as quick as you can."

The whole team groans... it's so dumb.

"Here is why we should take it seriously," Tiff says, waving for you to all calm down. "Remember the obstacle course? They recorded all of that. Especially the part where you guys had to fight. That footage is valuable. We can see how the players react to things and find their weaknesses. So the better we do, the more footage Pink Team gets. We get a clip for every one that you knock in. Bonus points for being the last survivor."

The team murmurs thoughtfully. Interesting... if you fight well with pillows, you can gain information that can give you an advantage. That is a good reason to put some effort into the pillow fight.

You change into your practice uniforms, which are... pretty sexy. You, Viti, and Lara all have obvious penis imprints in yours, and busty girls like Ingrid will just look... amazing. Luckily no one on your team has huge boobs, except for Elena, but she's over six feet tall, so...

You head for the main gym, finding it all lit up with cameras everywhere. A platform of foam pads is suspended way up high, twenty feet above a giant pit filled with foam blocks. Jeez...

You and your team get ready to fight.

You are up first because you are the captain. Moxxi and Lulu are already doing their commentary thing... music plays and lights flash. Clips of this will be all over the internet.

You take the pillow that a stage hand gives you and get ready. Six little bridges lead to that main platform... so you don't just have to fight, you have to balance just to GET to fight. Ugh...

Chun goes after Adella, and you see your chance while she's distracted and knock Adella off the platform with your pillow. Unfortunately, you are the next one eliminated. But you lasted longer than Adella, and your team does pretty well too. You get lots of points, but you don't get interviewed after the event.

Some of your team heads back to the cabin, but you stay to keep an eye on things. Every detail you see could help you against these other teams, and all the other captains are still there.

They finally finish the interviews and start to turn off the lights and take down the set.

You aren't trying to spy on Beth, but you notice her talking to Annette. Annette walks away, and you don't see Adella around, so you go up to Beth.

"What's going on?" you ask.

Beth looks surprised by something. "She wants to talk to me. At her house."

At her house? Annette is one of the most important people.

"Do you know what it's about?" you ask.

Beth shakes her head. "Motoko said it was OK."

This is weird. You weren't invited, but you better go with her anyway. If Motoko is OK with it, Tiff will be too. How strange.