Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-08-21 10:55 pm
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Betrayal 3: sensitIV

[ You spill out of the elevator into the Photoshoot Studio—the elevator is gone when you look back.

It's a huge room, and… so white it practically feels prismatic and glowing, from wall to wall, with a large drape of backdrop covering one end of the room to make it as formless and featureless as possible. A sea of endless possibility… or maybe a discomfiting void. But here, you can be anyone a photographer cares to dress you up as. A rack of rental costumes sits behind the camera, out of sight but key to putting together the illusion. Sequins and beads glitter under the bright light, like they’re so ready to be photographed that the flash bulbs of cameras are already going off.

There's a small vanity area with makeup—both conventional and with some exciting options, like full metallic body paint—and a mirror, for getting ready for your close-up. And as you walk around, the lighting rigs across the ceiling seem to… follow you? It's no surprise, right? After all, you're the star of the show while you're here, and everything in this room seems to focus on you.

You almost expect the white here to be spattered with red, and your clothes as well—like when your friend turned to you, with a strange expression, axe in their hand. They smiled a terrible, wrong smile, and said to hold still, as you backed up, arms raised, looking for some means of escape, something to help you. And then, the solid thing your hand found purchase on, in your time of need—

It's in the script someone's written for you, in your hand. Now, you have your own history, your own words and you can give those to the audience instead. But enough pain, enough destabilization, and you don't know if you'll want to keep sharing. They've set the stage for someone else, given you a prop, and you feel that. Reality isn't wanted here—no, you need to be larger than life, in this place, to not be devoured by the narrative, reduced to an extra. The script whispers for you to lock that troublesome self away, and try on this new role for size, and you'll be a star.

...but there's no point in casting a top-tier idol like you if you can't put your own spin on it, of course. At the bottom of the script, there's a note someone's written with a smiley-face: "just ad-lib, you're gonna be great :)"

A friendship bracelet hangs loosely from your wrist.

A readout on your phone tells you the rules and displays the basic goal (explore the rooms of the casino) as well as the item that you've been given (Friendship Bracelet). Only once you leave your starting room does your phone update to display your role's traitor goal (to kill someone who attacks you first). It looks like nothing is stopping you from committing the traitor goal even while you're sane, if you wish to.

There is an exit to the South. ]
cw_suicide: (102)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[still alive. still... so many items.

got high again tho]
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2020-08-28 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
...Still here?
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I am.

Do you need any items? I have... more than necessary, really.

[oh.

uh.

thing about the hand he's raising.

it's a blind box.

one hand is a blind box and the other is the monstermetal hand.]
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2020-08-28 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
...Oh dear. Have you been, ah, alive?

M-Maybe another weapon?
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still alive. Just. Things happen~

[but have a pistol!

You can use the Revolver to attack with speed instead of Might. (Opponents also defend with speed, and take physical damage.)
Roll 1 additional die on your speed attack roll (max 8 dice).
With the revolver, you can attack anyone in the same room or through line of sight: through an uninterrupted straight line of doors. If you attack someone in another room and lose, you don't take damage


...

and also a lucky stone and lucky scrunchie]

Don't worry, these are duplicates.
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2020-08-28 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
...How long have you been here???
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
... I lost count.

[long pause.]

Should we go...? I know places to improve strength and stamina and such, too...
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2020-08-28 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, we can, though if you want to go on yourself, I should be okay...
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure?

... mm, well... if you go to the basement, north and then east of the landing helps with stamina. West and then south helps overall health. South helps clear the mind.

Other than that... try to keep safe?

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2020-08-28 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Er, alright. Did you have anything in mind yourself?
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I usually make my way down there and then back up to the third floor for the Chapel and the Dispensary.

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[this comment for when they leave]

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-28 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[oh, and a sharpie]

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2020-08-28 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ still alive! it's only her third run, though. ]

Hah... Back again.