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

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

Well.

[ BOTTOMS UP, CHUGS THE DAMN THING ]

[hexsplosive]

[I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS]

[just. . . watching her carefully. . .]

[metafaliure]

[ doesn't die or throw up a lot, amazingly ]

...

It wasn't even fatal!? I almost feel ripped off. I can't see though so I suppose that is still an effective deterrent. Are we done? I want to leave.

[hexsplosive]

[sighs]

I presume so, yes. Do you need a seeing-eye future is now?

[metafaliure]

I'm sure I can manage. Isn't it only a straight line into the elevator and then out of it? And by then maybe it will wear off.

[hexsplosive]

My, you're counting on the good graces of our charming host. . . but if you insist.

Is blindness really the only effect? All that drama for nothing, it seems.

[metafaliure]

Blindness is obvious. My eyes itch, and while normally they would be watering they feel very dry. I'm also very annoyed but I doubt that's a potion effect.

[hexsplosive]

Soooo, as long as you don't keel over within the next twenty-four hours, you're probably fine.

[metafaliure]

If it were going to kill me they'd obviously make it take effect before we left the Game Tower.

[hexsplosive]

. . . we'll have pep!pep! on standby just in case.

Re: RESULTS

[glaring]

[ welp ]

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

[ BLINKS but her eyes don't refocus ]

Well! Well. Well I have gone blind so that isn't great.

Re: RESULTS

[glaring]

A symptom? Only the first?

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

Well, let's record it because I certainly have no idea what else it's going to do. I've never been poisoned before.

Re: RESULTS

[glaring]

Hmm... are you numb anywhere?

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

No. My eyes itch and are too dry. But no numbness.

Re: RESULTS

[glaring]

This is troubling... I don't know if we'll be able to get another antidote at all, and we don't know how long it will last. I wonder if the effects will be lessened because you already drank an antidote...

Re: RESULTS

[scarvedforlife]

[ DO YOU DIE DO YOU EXPLODE WHO DO I NEED TO THROW POINTS AT W-watching. ]

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

[ seems FINE ]

Shogun, come over here.

Re: RESULTS

[scarvedforlife]

Eh? Is it a slow death? Do you want to pass away romantically in my arms?

[ COMING OVER THOUGH please don't explode. ]

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

We're all dying slow deaths all the time! Just come here!

[ does not seem to have noticed that you actually did come over. ]

Re: RESULTS

[scarvedforlife]

... I'm right here.

[ Taps her shoulder. ]

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

[ JUMPS AND PUNCHES

it paffs uselessly against your shoulder because she's tiny and weak ]

I can't see after that! Don't sneak up on me!

Re: RESULTS

[scarvedforlife]

[ Cute. ]

Sorry, sorry. Ah, so you've gone blind, they say vision is the first thing to go...

... Or is it just your vision? How're you feeling?

Re: RESULTS

[metafaliure]

[ ugh grabs your shoulder NOT BECAUSE WE ARE FRIENDS OR ANYTHING ]

Blind and mad about it. But that's not unexpected.