CAPTIVE GAME: Heart Soldier Senshi & Challah

[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 solid black – King's position color. ]

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DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

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[deifiedwhitedragon]

[a dismissive snort]

This is a "game"? Isn't it just a torture competition?

[Then he glances around the room, his eyes passing over Challah without much concern—]

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[—and then his gaze lands on the black pillow set apart from the others, and after a few moments of recognition, his gaze turns ice cold as he turns around to frantically scan the room again for King.]

—No. I won't allow it.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Don't tell me....

[ where is KING?! ]

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[coldly]

He's the captive.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Our hostage is supposed to be the one that's gotta cry

AND YET

HIRYUU IS THE ONE THAT'S STARTING TO CRY. ]

N-no...!

[deifiedwhitedragon]

[ugh you're all useless!!]

There's nothing to do now but get him back.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ PLZ SETO just because we arrive at the end of the equation through different means doesn't make us USELESS.... ]

We'll figure something out. We have to.

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[crossmyheartandhope]

This is -

They gotta be joking, right?

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[dragonheartedgirl]

They never joke about these things.

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[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, well - they better be, this time.

That jerk's your old boyfriend, right? Can't you say something?

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[dragonheartedgirl]

[ she winces ]

Yes, but--he didn't... that wasn't like him. You heard how he was referring to himself, didn't you? "Layli?" That's... not any name he's ever called himself by. And--that's not how he smiles, either. Something's very wrong.

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[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, well, whatever happened, he better snap out of it.

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[dragonheartedgirl]

Do you think.... he's watching right now? I... could try...

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[crossmyheartandhope]

Give it a shot, dude.

Can't get any worse.

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[polarislight]

[There's a woman here. She looks around. She's wearing her nightclothes, so, uh, apparently she didn't change after her closet opened up. She brushes a couple locks of pink hair out of her eyes. She mostly just looks very. Very. Confused.

That little speech at the beginning from the...married couple? And the rules they were given afterwards don't seem to have elucidated much. Her eyes hang on the fact that there's someone...tied up...]

...someone should probably free that person.

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[crossmyheartandhope]

...wha.

Who.

Who're you?

Re: DISCUSSION

[polarislight]

That's a good question. [Her grimace widens.] One I quite desperately wish I had some answers to.

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[crossmyheartandhope]

...aw, man. What a time for a newbie.

O-okay, dude. Uh. We'll get you sorted with a name after this, kay? Just - just sit tight.

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[polarislight]

Fair enough. "This" seems to be a bit more of a pressing matter.

Why is that person over there tied up?

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[crossmyheartandhope]

They want us to take her apart to get one of our own out.

It ain't happening.

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[polarislight]

...

So all of that nonsense about torment and captives was literal. And we're being expected to carry it out.

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[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Oh no grandma. ]

How could they....

[ Put a BRAND NEW PERSON WITHOUT ANY INTRODUCTION

INTO A GAME LIKE THIS... ]

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[polarislight]

Rope and I assume narcotics.

[She's assuming you're talking about the hostage...]

I'm more concerned with what we're going to do about that now. I'm beginning to think that nonsense I heard about "torment" wasn't just nonsense.

Re: DISCUSSION

[dragonheartedgirl]

No--I mean, yes, but--to throw someone new right into this... You don't even know what's going on at all, do you?

[ she's. extremely distressed ]