Chapter 112 - 109: Hoe
Tulland spent the next two days pouring all the energy he could into his farm, encouraging every plant to add just a few more point to the cause of him staying alive. At the same time, he was running his splicer as often as it would allow him to, even after he ran out of interesting fertilizer and was resorting to ridiculous things to keep it going. Fingernail clippings were not the roaring success he hoped for, but they were worth a shot. More importantly, the farm had progressed anyway, pushing his score just north of seven thousand and five hundred.
On the third morning, Tulland was just through his breakfast and figuring out something more productive than lazing around with the heavily-armored girl he loved when he was rudely interrupted.
Gate travel was always disorienting, but it had never been so bad as now. With no warning at all, it took Tulland a few seconds to understand why his vision was swimming with blobs of color. Right when Tulland expected to be dumped into some kind of wild terrain, he was thrown into a room, not entirely unlike his white room he normally went to between big places, except with much more color and set of two small pillars rising out of the ground.
| Voting Area In the floor to follow, you and a team of other adventurers will work as a team on eliminating a certain threat. During the time you spend on that floor, damage to adventurers from non-monster entities will be prohibited, and there will be no incentive for anything but wholehearted, sincere cooperation towards a single goal. The rewards for the floor will be determined by two other things. First, the overall performance of your group matters. The ease with which you dispatch beasts will count towards your score, as will your ability to limit casualties on your own side. On a group level, the absolute size of the total prize will be determined by how convincingly your side defeats the other. Individual prizes will be divided by individual performance, drawing from that absolute pool. If you outperform someone else on your side of the battle, you will receive a larger piece of the total prize than they will. All prizes will be bigger in the scenario that your group performs better, but there will still be clear winners within the group itself. To reiterate: your group and personal performance both matter, and it's possible to get a larger prize by increasing either metric. The vote before you is a matter of influencing which side of the metric has the most impact on the prizes given out. On one side, you are voting for the performance of the group to have more sway, growing faster the better the group does. This will result in the largest absolute prize pool, and will trickle down to both top and bottom performers who survive the floor. Standing by the right pillar makes sense if you expect to perform at group average or worse and want more prizes than you'd otherwise get. The other side emphasizes personal performance, allowing for a person who expects to vastly outperform their peers to take home a much larger advantage than they otherwise would have. If you expect to do well while everyone else does poorly, the option on the left will turn out best for you.
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