POISON GAME: future is now

[idolpro]

[ The room is plain, white walls and white ceiling, except for the steel-panel flooring. There are three metal stands rising out of openings in the floor, each of which carries a glass vial on top. One of them just holds water. Of the remaining two, one contains a pale pink, opaque liquid with a creamy consistency; the next is tinged barely yellow like a weak tea, and would be almost completely transparent but for the pulp and fibers mixed in, drifting through it.

Both have flowers floated across the surface: the first a tiny sprinkling of cherry blossom petals; the second a small, but whole, bloomed lotus. They're cute and smell nice. ]

Comments

[nohalation]

Because I don't want to.

[hexsplosive]

[her mouth curves upwards]

I see nothing wrong with that reasoning. There is no better reason to refrain from doing something than "I don't want to."

[nohalation]

. . . you think so? Did you want to do something different though?

[hexsplosive]

Not particularly. I don't have any desire to die, nor do I want to paint a series of targets on our respective backs.

But other than that, I have no attachment to how we play at all.

[nohalation]

Oh . . . that's okay! I won't let you die!

[hexsplosive]

[. . . Angel??]

You make that declaration so easily. . .!

[nohalation]

Umm, I guess so. . . . I know sometimes it is very hard to do that kind of thing . . . the games won't let you, or they make very hard puzzles, or maybe you'll fail at protecting someone . . .

But I'll still do what I can!

[hexsplosive]

[she's going to push herself and have another breakdown like she did at the Exael game, Infinity thinks to herself]

. . . how far do you believe you can push yourself until you run out of energy?

[nohalation]

I'll never run out of energy.

[hexsplosive]

Ahahaha! What a good answer.

[nohalation]

[?!]

It is?!

[hexsplosive]

Yep!

[but she isn't explaining. . . why]