CAPTIVE GAME: LiliS & Eichi

[idolpro]

[ You're in a room with no doors or windows, about the size of a living room. Depending on how many of you are around, it might feel a little cramped. The walls and ceiling are draped with fabrics, the floor covered in colorful rugs and piles of sitting cushions, but you can see the dirt ground and untreated wood walls peeking through in places. There are three or so oil lamps to light the space, each placed on a stump-like round little table that isn't big enough to hold much else. It's kind of cozy, but...

Most of the cushions are embroidered with an array of colors, but there's one pillow in particular, set aside from the rest, that's one solid color – Iris's position color. ]

Comments

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[ the captive can tag into any threads under this header as well ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[busybreathing]

This feels like a gift.

Re: DISCUSSION

[enlightenedatheist]

We don't have to hurt him.

Re: DISCUSSION

[busybreathing]

Jeez, even with her not here it's going to be like that huh.

Re: DISCUSSION

[enlightenedatheist]

Do you want BARiTONES to get on our case about it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[flamecursed]

[ Hey I have an axe with me, ]

...so this is how it is.

[ she doesn't seem particularly wigged out, at least. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

This is more straightforward a choice than we're often given.

Re: DISCUSSION

[flamecursed]

[ sighs ]

What a bother. I know nothing of this one.

[ indicating their hostage ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

He is called Bordeaux, and is from BARiTONES—and that is what matters here.
They are not our allies, precisely, but... our units are siblings, in a sense.

All other units have been in this place longer than LiliS and BARiTONES, and our two units arrived together. It was also together that we experienced the consequences of being overlooked.

Re: DISCUSSION

[enlightenedatheist]

[ looking from his phone to the axe like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[flamecursed]

...I didn't really expect to be using it on anything more than those flying nuisances.

[ JUST LIKE

FYI

NOT THAT SHE WON'T, BUT. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[enlightenedatheist]

. . . Right.

[ not that he doesn't believe her he's just

(internal screaming about this whole situation) ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[enlightenedatheist]

[ staring at the rules on his phone like mentally he's just AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[vitainmorte]

[ u, uh. ]

We are expected to torture this man?

Re: DISCUSSION

[flamecursed]

I believe so.

Re: DISCUSSION

[vitainmorte]

... for what reason? What could this possibly...

He's tied up like an animal, to begin with...

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

[ gently but firmly ] We are expected to try to make him cry.

The difference is as meaningful as we make it to be.

Re: DISCUSSION

[vitainmorte]

Wouldn't something like that be ... "worth" less?

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

[ Amaranth is studying the rules, brows furrowed slightly. Then: ]

If all of you could gather around, I have a proposal.

Re: DISCUSSION

[busybreathing]

[ waves a hand, does not bother to get closer for discussion ]

We already know my opinion is discounted~ go on without me~

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

I don't recall being told anything like that. Your opinion matters, because this is a choice that all of us have to be able to take pride in, when this is done.

Re: DISCUSSION

[enlightenedatheist]

[ coming around to vibrate ]

. . . What's the proposal?

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

[ here ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[flamecursed]

Go ahead.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

The rules we've been given are extremely specific: The best thing we can do for Iris isn't to torment well, but to torment quickly.

Specifically, it's not even torment. Just tears.

Our ability to shape the world with illusion has only been made stronger recently.
[ a beat. then, shrugging— ] Since I assume we want Iris to be safe more than we want points, I propose we all generate a large number of freshly cut onions.