idolpro | Glory Ideal World

As you come to consciousness, you hear narration in your head. For some reason, this seems perfectly natural.

Welcome to Glory's Ideal World!

You'll find you have a gun at your side. You'll use this to interact with the things and people in this world. Don't worry, though! This is not a normal gun, and it doesn't fire real bullets! No things or people will be harmed by being shot with them. In fact, they won't do anything at all unless you shoot at weak points—actually, let's call them key items or key concepts. In order to break through to reality, you'll need to identify which of them are true and accurate representations, and which are illusion or delusion. Destroy the delusions, and strengthen the truths! However, be careful—if you strengthen a delusion it will make it harder to escape this world, and if you destroy a truth it will be harder to escape with Glory and yourselves intact!

You have two kinds of bullets - "Affirm" bullets and "Deny" bullets. If you think something is true and should be reinforced, shoot it with an "Affirm" bullet! On the other hand, if you think it's false, shoot a "Deny" bullet! You'll find out what other effects this has as you go! You've even been given one special skill to help you out!

Of course, you can always leave things alone. But if you don't want to be trapped here forever, you'll need to make some decisions. So don't be shy. You've got unlimited ammo.

There appears to be an almost ghostly pistol at your hip, hovering attached to nothing. It's a revolver with two settings, easy to pick up and fire, and the bullets themselves are even more incorporeal - shadows that dart through the air and disappear without a trace on impact.

(OOC: Key items and concepts will be bolded in descriptions and dialogue, and your character will be able to sense they seem important as well. You can shoot any of them you see at any point. How do you shoot a concept? Don't worry about it. Just say what you're shooting in your action tag, and whether you are AFFIRMing or DENYing. In addition to doing damage to or reinforcing the ideal world illusion, shooting these may cause mental or physical effects. These affect everyone in the vicinity, not just the person who fired the bullet.

Otherwise, you can assume the guns have no effect on anything.

You can check your character's individual skill and their starting area in the signup sheet. Skills are one time use.)

STARTING AREAS: WORLD P | WORLD 1 | WORLD D

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

When you return to the courtyard, the metal preventing the lever from moving to R appears to have been melted away.

Gonna go out on a limb and assume that's what we want...!

[ making a beeline for the lever. ]

[Glory follows in distress]

No!

[ stops and turns around, but his hand is on the lever. ]

What?

[hesitates]

...Don't do it.

Why? Because you don't want to leave?

It's not like you to settle for an empty fantasy.

It's not any more empty than reality.

You're gonna have to explain that one.

If everything's just fiction, why shouldn't I stay in a nicer fiction?

Since when is everything you've done in Tokyo-F so far fiction?

...It isn't. But that's barely anything compared to having a life before.

Just how many people do you think come here without remembering anything about their old lives...? If someone just decided never to buy any memories, would that make their lives here "empty"?

Who cares what came before? We live in the present, Glory!

You care. How would you feel if your sister wasn't real? Or that guy you partnered up with?

[ he flinches and glares slightly at the mention of the-ex-who-shall-not-be-named. his hand remains on the lever. ]

... What would it actually change? In the end, Little☆Red is the one I have now.

Don't you have real people waiting for you outside of here? Are they all "barely anything" now?

...They can stay here too. You can stay here too.

[ ... he softens again. ]

Or we could go back. Together.

[ holds out a hand for her. ]

C'mon, don't just erase everything you've built.

...Everything I built will probably just break down eventually anyway.

[but she sounds unsure, and she looks down at his hand]

What, so you're gonna give up? You're too stubborn for that.

[ he keeps holding it out. ]

[automatically:]

I'm not giving up. I just...

[trails off, glancing at the crumbling sky]

I just wish I could feel like I had something... sure. Something I won't lose.

[ follows her gaze with a soft exhale. ]

There isn't anything you can't lose. Even the most certain thing can come to an end one day.

It's just a risk you have to accept.

"Ending" is different from never having been what you thought it was in the first place.

[but she sighs, and takes his hand]

But I guess all I can do is hang on to the most secure things I do have.

Now you're getting it.

[ and he's going to hold her hand and pull the lever. ]

[The sky crumbles the rest of the way as the world drops away around them.

And then they are somewhere else.]

Glory Ideal World

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