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. ]
sancrimony: (✛ 273)

Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I HATE THIS

looking like he would like. maybe. to run the fuck away but he's keeping track of everyone here first ]
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-24 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[HE'S DOING FINE. CROSSBOW AND DYNAMITE IN HAND. CLEARLY COMING DOWN FROM A HIGH.

GOOD TIMES, LUCIFEL.]
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . .

gently trying to take one of those two away from him ]

Suu-san, are you alright?
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-24 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[... fine, you can have the dynamite.]

Hm?

Fine.

Twisted my ankle a little.

I have a box that gives me things when someone's injured in a room.
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Be careful, alright? Let's stick together.
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-24 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[nooooods]

Avoid the crazies. Stay sane.

Got that talk.
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ nod. ]

Did you . . .

. . .

Eat something. . . strange?
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-24 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I found a drug dispensary!

... it actually made me feel a lot better.

But I had to give up the garrote wire...

[sadness. but also he regained the sanity point he'd lost]
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Should we go there again?

[ honestly if drugs help you let's get you drugs. ]
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-24 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
--can we?!

I think it's upstairs! I went downstairs once and nothing seemed to be like that at aaaaall. All the fancier things are upstairs!
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . I don't think it's a bad idea!
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-24 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[u remain favorite]

I was transported, so I don't know specifically where but definitely probably upstairs!
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Re: SESSION 5 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] sancrimony 2020-08-24 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's go, then.

[ OUT OF SENSITIV WE GO ]