MAN☆EATER'S IDEAL WORLD ★ SESSION 1

[idolpro]

When you close your eyes, bone-deep fatigue crashes over you like a wave—almost like it was just waiting to catch up to you the minute you stopped moving.

Within the darkness, you can just barely hear the echoes of distant voices, too faint to identify . . .

"Jealous of his normalcy? Maybe just a little."

"Man Eater is so scary! Man Eater is a killer! It's all very alarming but. . .that's all there is, isn't it?

Neeheehee, brutish as you may be, someone like you will never be more than that. You'll kill, and you'll die. Over and over, until it's permanent some day."

"And you're the same... Hitoshiki! The truth is you're just a serial killer who's only good for killing—so why are you going to school like some normal kid?! Leading a dual life when you don't even have a dual personality—it's not fair! Why only you?! It's not fair!"

"It's better not to fight, sometimes. I feel kind of sorry for you..."

"So what it comes down to is this. Would you rather stay what you are, or be happy?"

Gradually, those voices blend into the hum of a bustling crowd... naturally enough to make you wonder if perhaps you were just hearing things, after all.

INFO & RULES | START HERE

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STARTING INFO & RULES

[idolpro]

You have a new message on your phone.

From: Anonymous
Subject: Assassination Mission

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Targets:
- Niounomiya Rizumu
- Zerozaki Hitoshiki

Reward: Release from this world

How you get the job done is entirely up to you.
I don't care.

Careful, though.
Izumu will stop you if given the chance.

Of course, you could always choose to stay in this world forever.
Whether you do or don't, it's all the same to me.

Hm.

Oh, you're also dressed in a school uniform now.

[ OOC RULES:
- Powers are off. No items (except phones) or weapons. Everyone is fully human upon entry to the world, if they weren't already. All cyborg parts are replaced with flesh bits, corruptions are gone, etc.
- Phones work, but you can only text or call other idols within the Ideal World.
- You are all simultaneously working to accomplish the same goal, so collaboration among players is both allowed and encouraged! ]

SCHOOL GROUNDS

[carnivorouscarnival]

When you open your eyes again, you find you've been dropped right in the middle of a vibrant school festival. Student-run booths line the grounds, most of them selling all the simple Japanese festival foods you can imagine—yakisoba, yakitori, shaved ice, you name it—with a few makeshift game stands sprinkled here and there.

There are tons of people around—some manning the booths, others wandering around enjoying the festival—but they all seem oddly... nondescript? Almost faceless, but not in a creepy, horror movie way; it's just difficult to focus on any of their features.

There are two exceptions to this rule: specifically, two boys dressed in gakuran uniforms who are making a commotion near one of the booths.

If you keep walking past all the booths, eventually there is an entrance that leads into the school building.

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[hissterics]

[ She's here without any of her cat features, but she DOES have a cat ear headband. So there's that.

She takes a full minute and a half to pat herself down and freak out a little. ]

No way--!

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just staring at his phone for several long seconds.

YOU WANT HIM TO KILL WHO NOW?

Fucking---

Looks up to see if he recognizes either of the people making a fuss at the booths]

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[nohalation]

[This is the worst ideal world for Angel to be in. Wings, halo, maybe face scars??? are missing too.]

Assassination Mission...

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[selfpreservationist]

[raven is dressed a bit like a british schoolboy and staring at his phone with narrowed eyes, looking deeply annoyed and concerned]

... Rizumu, is it.

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[stakesthesame]

[ his... sister???

Also give her a minute being human is giving her too fucking many feelings. Also probably dressed a bit like a delinquent but, y'know.

... but after a while she'll head towards the volition bc of course she does??? ]

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And looking for Izumu and dipshit. Now with Rizumu in tow]

Izumu!

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[hissterics]

[ After the broadcast, she's making her way back to the grounds, looking for Manny. ]

Re: SCHOOL GROUNDS

[selfpreservationist]

[raven's coming out after sabre, looking both relieved and oddly disappointed]

HALLWAY

[carnivorouscarnival]

Upon heading inside the building, you find yourself in a typical school hallway, decorated festively for the occasion. Notes of music drift down the hallway; there's probably a live concert going on somewhere in the building. Those familiar with any of ☆ZRAEL's long line of musicians may recognize some of the singing voices.

The walls are covered in posters advertising the various events and exhibits, including the following:



You can go to the left, to the Cosplay Cafe; to the right, to Class 3-☆; or even further down the hall to the right, to the Haunted House. Where to?

Re: HALLWAY

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Record scratch at the the Haunted House.

No bad, Intensity, bad.

He is a good boy who heads toward the Cosplay Cafe.]

Re: HALLWAY

[hissterics]

[ Well . . . Rizmoomoo is in the cafe, but . . .

She can't resist heading into the Zrael house instead, just for a peek. ]

Re: HALLWAY

[selfpreservationist]

[HE CAN'T... NOT GO INTO THE HAUNTED HOUSE

HE JUST GOTTA]

Re: HALLWAY

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And heading back outside, Rizumu in tow]

Re: HALLWAY

[hissterics]

[ JAWS THEME

Into the cosplay cafe ]

THE THIRTEEN STAIRS' COSPLAY CAFE

[carnivorouscarnival]

You enter a classroom that's been transformed into a charming little cafe. There's a menu written on the chalkboard and tables set up around the room, covered in white tablecloths to make them look a little more polished. Business seems to be booming; "faceless" guests occupy a good number of tables, chattering away.

A middle-aged man, old enough to presumably be the club supervisor, is sitting in the back reading a book. He is also in cosplay(?), wearing a yukata and a fox mask that completely hides his face.

The one to immediately greet you at the door, dressed in a Holmesian detective getup, is... Man☆Eater? Or at least, someone who looks the spitting image of him—except for the part where she's wearing an open, bubbly expression you would never see on his face.

"Hiiii! Come have a seat!"

Re: THE THIRTEEN STAIRS' COSPLAY CAFE

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Tugs playfully at the lip of the deerstalker cap so it covers her eyes]

Hey, Detective.

Re: THE THIRTEEN STAIRS' COSPLAY CAFE

[hissterics]

[ OPEN UP IT'S THE FEDS

Sabre slips into the room and takes only a moment to assess the situation before she's trying to dash around behind him with her knife, the fog and strobe lights hopefully providing enough cover. ]

☆ZRAEL'S HAUNTED HOUSE

[carnivorouscarnival]

The windows of this classroom have been boarded up with black paper, covered in "bloody handprints" (clearly just red paint).

Right outside the door labeled as the entrance to the haunted house, there is an empty box with a sign that reads "LEAVE AN OFFERING OR BE CURSED."

Re: ☆ZRAEL'S HAUNTED HOUSE

[hissterics]

[ SPOOKY!!

She snorts and ignores the offering box because she's Zrael and therefore it obviously doesn't apply.

OPEN DOOR ]

Re: ☆ZRAEL'S HAUNTED HOUSE

[selfpreservationist]

[... okay. okay wait. can he quickly go out and get a container of yakisoba and come back with it to place it in the offering box]

Text to everyone

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Mr. Fox in the Cosplay Cafe is the one who ordered the hit.

Re: Text to everyone

[hissterics]

MURDER★MITTENS: kill him instead

Re: Text to everyone

[selfpreservationist]

Chamomile Gatorade (for poets): Does That Mean He's Self-Aware?