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

Well, there's still some falsehoods you need to dispel.

[shoots Deny at the cardboard cutout]

When you hit the cutout with a bullet, it wavers in something like television static. For a moment, it seems like it's a real Glory standing there—and for a moment, it seems like there are other people in the courtroom. You can hear voices.

Even if your body is real, your identity, personality, talent and past are all fiction. It's all fiction created by the Flashback Light.

This was all a show... this whole killing game!

The walls of this academy are your world now. The outside world is of no concern to you.

All the people in this peaceful world are straight-up crazy for this killing game show!

Then that all fades, and the Glory cutout at the podium dissolves into dust. However, in its place is another Glory(?) in a more drab high school uniform, this one definitely flesh and blood. She leans against the podium lazily.

[his brow furrows]

... who are you, then?

"The truth."

She giggles. It's a strange sound.

"Of course there was a real person behind all that, right...? There were false memories, but before then, there was someone real. Even if I don't remember it... You didn't remember yourself to begin with either, right?"

[raises an eyebrow and glances at the glory by his side, and then back to the other one]

You're saying you're the original one?

Glory at his side tightens her hands into his shirt but doesn't say anything.

Glory at the podium smirks.

"That's right. I'm the one who auditioned for the part."

And why should I care about you?

"I'm not a devil hunter. I'm not even an assassin. I'm a girl who auditioned to have my memories rewritten so I could be in my favorite killing game show. You don't think that matters?"

I've never met you before in my life. The Glory I know is the one at my side--the one who's my family. My lover, my sister, my friend. You're nothing like her.

[he points his gun at the glory on the podium]

If you want to try and argue that the original is better than the later version, you picked the wrong person to convince.

She looks straight down the gun at him, shrugging.

"I would never argue that. Assassin's pretty cool, but Devil Hunter's not bad either, if a little bit middle school. Why would I think my boring, normal life could even compare to that?"

[Glory ignores her, ducking her head against him and huffing.]

"Lover, sister, and friend..." You're embarrassing...

[But her voice is weak, and she sounds overwhelmed rather than embarrassed]

[he turns to the glory at his side, smiling]

It's a good thing you're the only one who heard it, then.

[and he fires the bullet]

When you shoot the girl with the bullet, your stomach drops like the whole world is turning around you. You can hear Glory's voice in your head, emotional but emphatic—

No one just comes into being and that's who they are. They grow and change. I'm starting from being a fake person. That's not an easy place to start. But it's not fundamentally different from anyone else. Normal people are born and become who they are based on their decisions and their experiences. Everyone has made decisions about what they want and who they want to be since I've been here. And so have I.

Sometimes it feels like I'm building a house on a foundation made of paper. I have everything I've built, and there isn't really anything I can do but keep working on it, but... maybe I'm missing some fundamental pieces and it will never be a real house. It's not worth worrying about, though. Since in reality, there isn't anything I can do but do my best to move forward from here.

Then, suddenly, the room around you crumples, as if it is, in fact, made out of paper. You feel Glory's arm slide a little further around you.

And then you wake up.

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