CAN YOU CHECK THE BACK???

[idolpro]

[ For just a moment, it seemed like the game was ending. The game tower reappeared around you - but then there's a sort of shimmer, and everything around you freezes, half formless.

The room the game started in seems overlaid over the normal game tower walls, seemingly flickering in and out of existence. There's a click, like a latch being opened: in fact, you can see that one of the previously locked windows seems to no longer be closed as tightly, though...since you're back in the game tower (probably?), it can't possibly lead anywhere else but a several story drop down into the streets of Tokyo-F...unless…? ]

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GAME TOWER...?

[idolpro]

[ It also, for some reason, seems like it's just two cats here? There's nobody else at all besides Kohime and Sabre. ]

Re: GAME TOWER...?

[hissterics]

[ She sits up and looks around a few times --

But then the fur slowly starts to rise along her spine as something deeply not right settles over her. ]

What just--

Kohime?

Re: GAME TOWER...?

[purrrnicious]

[Because RL reasons this is probably actually her first time in the Tower for this game, but––]

. . .Just you?

What, they got tired of having two of us and we're supposed to have a death match, or something?

Re: GAME TOWER...?

[hissterics]

[ Her ears flatten a little ]

What? No. The game is over. At least-- I thought . . .

[ Glancing around the game tower ]

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[purrrnicious]

The game. . .?

[She takes in the state of the place, the odd half-glitched overlay.]

Looks like they're having some trouble. Maybe––all the mess with those imp things? Or the power failure. . .




[She crosses over to the odd window, reaching out to push it open, if she can. A several story drop isn't exactly a problem for Verticality or Stability, after all.]

Re: GAME TOWER...?

[hissterics]

[ Following after her ]

It was fine when they dragged us all in here originally.

Maybe some idiot screwed up and is about to get fired.

Re: GAME TOWER...?

[idolpro]

[ well,

there is a several story drop.

The street below looks like it's probably Tokyo-F? ]

Re: GAME TOWER...?

[purrrnicious]

I don't plan to stick around to find out.

[Good thing cats like heights! She's going to pull herself up into the window to climb down the side of the building.]

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[hissterics]

[ Leaping out after her, using Verticality to slowly drift herself down.

She's turning to squint at the Game Tower as she does, though, and then the street below.

Where did everyone go . . . ???? ]

???

[idolpro]

[ The drop down from the "Game Tower" is long - looking back at the tower reveals that not only did you apparently just come out of the wall, because there's no windows, it also reveals that this is definitely not the Game Tower you know, even if it's similar. The tower in Tokyo-F wasn't physically painful to look at, after all.

The streets of wherever you're at now seem as empty as Tokyo-F, though. The shimmering strangeness of the air around you is similar to how it was earlier, with a distinct sense of everything being frozen in place even if there's nothing to really indicate that's the case - you're definitely capable of moving, anyway.

The street you're on, sandwiched between rows of buildings, seems to twist and turn into infinity. If navigating that isn't appealing, there's also a side alley between the first set of buildings, which seems to go...somewhere? ]

Re: ???

[purrrnicious]

[She ends up running down on all fours, fur raised, unnerved and eager to get away from the building as quickly as possible –– but reaching the bottom, she freezes, looking one way, then the next with a growing sense of alarm. Finally, she turns to Sabre.]

Where––what is this? I don't––why's it just us?

Re: ???

[hissterics]

[ Sabre stays floating just above the ground, like she's afraid to let her feet touch it. ]

This doesn't look like . . .

[ A pause, her tail lashing ]

Unless we both ended up in someone's head? Someone who really likes this place for some reason.

Re: ???

[purrrnicious]

You can explain just what that is supposed to mean when we're not––

[She gives a vague handwave indicating the everywhere]

––here. C'mon, that way's the only direction that doesn't like like we might end up in some kind of endless gray territory, or something.

[Pointing out the alleyway, and without waiting to see if Sabre agrees or not, she heads that way.]

WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[idolpro]

[ Strangely, the moment you step into the alley, you end up somewhere else entirely. The air is as shimmering and unmoving as always and the surroundings are exactly as nauseating to view, but it doesn't seem you're just off the main street as one would expect.

A large building that looks to be some sort of shipping center or warehouse sits ahead of you - it's the one building that can actually be perceived without a splitting headache.

There seems to be one person-sized door up a catwalk between two of the loading docks. What can be made out of the half-faded sign above it reads "IDOL DISTRIBUTION CENTER". ]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[hissterics]

[ She lands so she can keep up as Kohime heads toward the alley, but as soon as the warehouse is in sight . . .

She freezes, both hands balling into fists.

Softly: ]

No. No way.

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[purrrnicious]

[She squints a little to read the sign.]

"Idol. . . Distribution Centre"?

What does––does that mean. . .?



[She pauses only to give Sabre an uncertain look –– then just straight up gallops on all fours up towards the door.]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[hissterics]

[ Being in charge emant grudgingly knowing more about logistics than she ever intended to.

Either way, she's taking off at her own sprint. ]

This is where they take you when they jerk you on and off programs. It has to be.

[ The panic of "am I being taken off the program" can wait for later ]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[idolpro]

[ The catwalk seems to extend across this entire half of the wall of the building, winding around the corner.

The door immediately in front of you looks kinda weathered, but serviceable. ]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[purrrnicious]

They take you to other Productions, not some dumb warehouse!

[But. . . maybe––

She opts to attempt to just kick in the door. There's no one around, anyway.]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[idolpro]

[ Wow, rude???

The door swings open with a loud CLANG. Even from outside the entirety of the lobby's interior can be seen, since it's not much. It's grey and drab and boring and cramped and there's basically just a set of three chairs against the wall by the entry door, a water cooler, and a booth with a bowl full of very stale candies atop it. There's a heavy looking push bar door next to the booth, and you can hear the faint whirring of machinery past it. ]

1/3

[hissterics]

What do you think a distribution hub is f--





[ Oh OK. I mean yeah that works ]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[hissterics]

[ . . . ]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[hissterics]

Nice.

[ Once she scans the room to confirm it's empty as fuck, she's heading directly for the next door. It's time to wrench this one open too. ]

Re: WAREHOUSE EXTERIOR

[purrrnicious]

[That first door was asking for it.

Right on Sabre's heels, to help her with it if it's too heavy.]

1/3

[idolpro]

[ The door is actually pretty easy to - ]