Isn’t this just Buckshot Roulette but in Portland, Oregon?

The elevator stopped and Emerald lead Jared towards a bright blue door. There were a selection of doors with various colours matching ones he's seen before and ones he haven't.

Emerald: Since you changed colours, please go through the blue door.

Jared: Will you be hosting this one?

Emerald: More or less.

Jared walked through the door. On the other side was a small laboratory with various types of equipment, flasks and apparatus were strewn about on the counters and desktops. He sat down at a table and on the other side was someone else who was also wearing a blue jumpsuit.

He for some reason couldn't see anything behind the person on other other side but

Jared: Jared. Were you on the plane too?

Geralt: I'm Geralt. I was in a library before this. I don't remember much but I opened a book, blacked out and now I'm here.

Jared: I blacked out too. Do you know what's going on?

Geralt: Not really. I woke up with a bunch of other people in a room full of doors and we were told to go through the ones that matched our colours.

Jared: I went through that as well. My group theorised that we're part of some death games.

Geralt: How sick. It's plausible though considering the things we're e going through.

Speaker: Round 1, Begin.

Two heart monitors boot up beside at the edge of the table displaying Jared's and Geralt's names with two hearts below them each. Two syringes pop up from a hatchet with one showing red liquid and the other a clear grey. They pop down before popping up with covers on them not showing which is which and arranged in a random order. A coin drops from the ceiling and in the middle the table.

Speaker: Flip the coin to decide who goes first.

Jared takes the coin and looks to Geralt.

Jared: Go on. Heads or tails?

Geralt:....heads

Jared flips and it lands on heads.

Jared: Lucky.

Speaker: Pick a syringe and either inject them into yourself or into the person in front of you. If the syringe is the poison, the person injected loses a life and if the syringe is the sample, they move on with the next syringes.

Geralt: What? I'm not injecting anyone or myself with whatever the hell in-

BANG.

Speaker: Refusing to play will result in termination.

Jared: Noted.

The body and the chair is dropped in a trap door before a new chair is dispensed. Jared hears a door open and footsteps that get louder and louder until a new challenger has arrived. They sit down looking visibly delirious.

Jared: You alright? I'm Jared.

Akagami: Akagami….. I'm not doing great. I just lost a game of this and they're making me go through-

Akagami suddenly coughs up a mouthful of blood.

Akagami: Sorry.

Speaker: Round 1, Begin.

The monitor resets displaying Akagami's and Jared's name along with two lives. Just like before. The syringes are also reset with two being red and one being grey.

Jared: Heads or tails?

Akagami: Agh…. Tails.

Jared: It's heads. Unlucky.

Jared looks at the syringes and feels unsure. He doesn't want to inject anything in his body even if it's not the poison, it probably wouldn't be much better anyways.

Still, better than ending up like Akagami. He grabs the second syringe and injects it into himself. He feels a little weakened and looks to the monitor. Two lives. It was safe. This also meant there are two poisons left and Akagami can go again.

Akagami: Oh god no.

Jared: I don't have a choice.

Jared injects Akagami and he loses a heart on the monitor. Akagami writhes in pain as Jared's turn passes and it moves to Akagami. Akagami swipes the last syringe and injects it into Jared. Jared doesn't flinch and they put the syringes back into the tray as both go down to one life. The syringes reset and now there are two poison and two safe.

Jared can feel the effects of the poison, it's as if thorns were strangling his throat. Akagami goes first and he immediately injects Jared. Nothing. Jared feels slightly more weakened but besides that, he's still on one life.

Jared: How much poison do you have in you?

Akagami: At least... two…. Syringes…. Before this.

Jared: I'm surprised you're still holding up.

Akagami:...same

Jared injects himself. It's safe but Jared feels sluggish and weaker. The safe impairs your cognitive ability so even if you get lucky and inject yourself with safes a lot, you still end up being worse off the more the games go on as it will dampen your ability to keep going.

Jared injects Akagami and blood starts flowing out of his eyes and nose. Akagami's eyes fall into the back of his head and collapses from his chair.

Speaker: Violence wins.

Jared wondered why the monitor displayed his new name while the hosts call him his old name, his True name. The body and chair are removed and replaced with a new chair.

Alex: Alex. The monitor won't start if we don't say our names.

Jared: Jared.

The monitor lights up again displaying 4 hearts for each. Along with 5 syringes, three poison and two safe, two cards are given to Jared and Alex.

Speaker: Two cards are dispensed for each player after every turn. You may activate the effect and discard them on your turn. Round two, begin!

Jared goes first and looks at his cards.

ANTIDOTE

REGAIN A HEART AND SUPPRESS THE POISON'S EFFECTS

SHATTER

BREAK A SELECTED SYRINGE AND PASS YOUR TURN

Jared plays the SHATTER card and discards it into the card shaped slots near the syringe tray. He selects the fourth syringe and throws it to the floor on his side. It's a poison but Alex can't see it.

Alex: What is it?

Jared:.....safe.

Both get given two more cards as it is passed to Alex's turn and he plays a DOUBLE card that allows him to use two syringes in one turn. He injects two into Jared with Jared losing one life out of four. Jared feels a clawing feeling in his head as the strangling feeling around his neck tightens. Jared presumes the effect of the poison is different for everyone as he isn't bleeding like Akagami.

Alex: So the two left are poison?

Jared: Should be.

On Jared's turn, he uses an ANTIDOTE card and regains a heart putting himself back up to a full set of four. The strangling feeling around his neck leaves however the fatigue he feels worsens due to being injected with a safe along with a poison by Alex. He has four cards now after gaining four and using up the first two he got.

ANTIDOTE

REGAIN A HEART AND SUPPRESS THE POISON'S EFFECTS

DOUBLE

USE TWO SYRINGES IN ONE TURN

PASS

PASS YOUR OPPONENT'S NEXT TURN

REVEAL

PICK A SYRINGE AND REVEAL IT'S TYPE TO YOU

Jared uses an ANTIDOTE and it does nothing to his hearts but he does feel the clawing in his head dissipate. He can't focus with the effects of the poison alongside with the fatigue and lethargy from the amount of safes he has in his system.

He uses a PASS and DOUBLE and injects the last two into Alex knocking Alex back down to two hearts. They put the syringes back as well as the cards as 6 syringes with 2 poison and the rest safes, are dispensed. Two cards are also dealt.

SHIELD

PROTECTION IS PUT OVER YOUR ARM, IT PROTECTS FROM ANY SYRINGE ONCE BEFORE BEING REMOVED

TRASH

CHOOSE A SYRINGE AND PUT IT BACK INTO THE TRAY

Alex: You lied huh? You know you could've just not have told me.

Jared: I'm trying my best not to die.

Alex: Fair enough.

Alex eyes become bloodshot and purple spots appear on his neck as the poison takes hold. He has no reaction to it but Jared notices how hard he's began to sweat.

Jared uses the SHIELD and injects himself with a safe. He uses TRASH and puts a syringe back before injecting the last one into Alex bringing him down to his last life. Alex begins to visibly shake as the purple spots spreads further.

Alex: Is….. it's may turn right?

Speaker: Effects carry on from the previous round. Your turn is skipped.

Alex: Shit. That's one in three if the one you trashed wasn't a poison.

Jared: I like those odds.

Jared injects a syringe into Alex. Alex starts choking until he falls limp onto the table and he loses his last life. Jared puts the syringes back and the cards as everything is reset and a new challenger arrives.

Speaker: The final round. Four cards are given every turn. Every card gained after eight are discarded. Begin.

Jared: Jared. Are you ready?

Daniel: Daniel. No, but we don't have a choice.