BARiTONES

[idolpro]

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a manor.

You're wearing bloodstained (but fancy!) versions of your uniforms, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME% in the year %CONTEMPORARY%+1. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing the results of a recent attempt at revolt in a city in %COUNTRYNAME%: worker’s success at managing a nearby gold mine led to dreams of every man being a king - the revolutionaries may have been successful had it not been for a concurrent jailbreak and mass slaughter putting local authorities on alert, buying time for military intervention - the town was nearly leveled to the ground, with few survivors.

But you seem to remember - you survived, didn’t you? In fact, you were one of the rioters.

...Also, below the main headline about the failed revolution, there's something about Those Who Crave Hands? Huh.

Anyways, you've got marketing to do! ]

Comments

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

[Score one for hubris.

He is not getting up from where he's sitting, and why would he? If back problems weren't enough, having one's skin harden and spider-web like brittle bone, well, it limits mobility to say the least.

He cranes his neck to the side and it is accompanied by a crack and more spiderweb patterns on the skin of his neck. Lovely.]

Re: After round 3

[marsascending]

...hold still.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

Will that truly help? I don't believe I've seen first aide classes for one's skin turning to ... whatever this is?

[Can't exactly get a good look at it, and well, it hurts like hell and he winces.]

Re: After round 3

[marsascending]

It'll help such that the damage doesn't get worse before the game ends properly.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

Practical and correct. As always.

[He does think about moving but then grimaces.]

Though I could do without this left arms. The skin is all bone, but not the nerves. It's rather painful.

[Is he joking? He's probably joking.]

Re: After round 3

[marsascending]

Ugh, that's horrible. They're really getting unnecessarily creative.

...thought it'd take him longer than this, but I suppose now's as good a time as any.

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

As did I but this is more than patience can bear. And remiss of me to allow for a cheap act.

Re: After round 3

[marsascending]

You're going to be—how do the children say it? "losing your shit" here every other week, then, if this is more than patience can bear, for you.

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

I can at least put up with it with some grace if I'm not being constrained to an act. This farce needn't have played out.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

[He's trying not to laugh as the meaning of that sets in, because well that's too much movements, but alas. He winces.]

Did you figure that out on your own? I'm sure you did. So very clever. Perhaps you can challenge him for the title of Speaker.

Re: After round 3

[marsascending]

Would you expect any less of me? I hope not.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

My dear, if it would not be a terrible idea, I would kiss you. As we painstakingly wait, how did you find out?

Re: After round 3

[marsascending]

How else? A nice-to-meet-you handshake on the first day.

He seemed a little calm to really remember nothing, and as it turns out, it's a little unusual to be very invested in a man you just met who threw your phone out a window.

[ wink~* ]

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

He might have been overly attached to that phone. It was his first posession.

Clever. Nonetheless.

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

[Crouching in front of him, reaching forward to cup his cheek and inspect the damage.]

Foolish.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

[Trying to pull his head back which just causes more cracking sounds.]

Hush.

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

[Reaching to grip his chin and hold him still, don't bother worrying about spreading or hurting or whatever, he's going to get a good look at it.

He never really said whether it's himself or you that's foolish okay.]

...Tch. I can't fix this.

How deep does it go? The corrupted flesh.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

[Then he'll get thin spiderweb fractures where he's holding him firm.]

For the love of, desist. Of course you can't even if it is simply mortal flesh.

[He sighs though it is mostly a pained whine.]

Not far enough to reach nerves, unfortunately.

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

[He does release him, frowning at the fractures.]

You almost look your age.

[He's not happy even if it's a joke.]

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

How comforting.

[Trying not to move, but that is difficult when one is trying to find a position that doesn't hurt.]

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

Stop fidgeting. You look ready to shatter into pieces.

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

Repeating the act twice in one day would make for a rather boring show.

Since you seem to have all the answers, what should I do instead?

Re: After round 3

[unskippablecutscene]

I could always peel the corrupted flesh off for you since you're whining about it.

[He would not. It's a horrible thought. He's still being an ass though.]

Re: After round 3

[notadrop]

I told you, I toooooold you! We should've like, killed them all! But, haha! This is pretty funny too, right? Riiiight?

[ they're a very cute fairy now and they're gonna try to drape over his back. ]

Look, we get to see the real Number Fifteen! And look at Abi!

Re: After round 3

[firstworldproblem]

[That gets a hiss out of him as everything just hurts.]

Ruby. Ruby, stop. Go cuddle Paloma or ... who?

[He isn't really up to putting two and two together right now.]