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: (388)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[a less chill end the last round he was in but then he spots some gummies from the dispensary left in there and--!

!


!!!!!!

time to just take the gummies. yesss.]
crystallinelore: (i'll turn)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] crystallinelore 2020-08-25 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[just kind of

blinks

well he hopes those were helpful and not bad but he ain't gonna comment.]
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Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[+1 sanity! but also now a high unitmate.]

Noah-san! Have you just arrived? I've been through this several times already! I have a map and a box that'll give us things when someone's injured!
crystallinelore: made by me unless otherwise stated, pls credit if taken (somewhere)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] crystallinelore 2020-08-25 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...This is my second time.
cw_suicide: (444)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[.... hang on. he has to count.




holds up five fingers!]

Think this is the fifth? Maybe. Might be fourth?
crystallinelore: (far away from here)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] crystallinelore 2020-08-25 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Goodness, you have been busy.
cw_suicide: (310)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I also have this.

[HOLDS UP PISTOL!

... he is not practicing gun safety.]
crystallinelore: (farewell)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] crystallinelore 2020-08-25 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...Good, but also, careful please.
cw_suicide: (383)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[points gun upwards]

Right, right~ Only aim at those who attack first~
crystallinelore: (and more)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] crystallinelore 2020-08-25 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
...That's right.
bondsofsuffering: ([Sigh] Losing everything was)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2020-08-25 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've already got your drugs, does that mean we still need to go back, or can we just go to that prop room as soon as possible and find somewhere else to go?
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Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Prop room always first! But the dispensary would still be good to get again!

[listen...]

And I know where a secret passage is in the prop room, too!
bondsofsuffering: ([Question] fearful heart try)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2020-08-25 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Where does it lead?
cw_suicide: (232)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Different rooms--one on each floor. Last time, we went up. It was easier to get to the dispensary that way. No going through the room with the heavy doors again.
bondsofsuffering: ([Sigh] 'Cause what I feared)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2020-08-25 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you just planning to go there every single round...?

[Hhhh oh well.]

Fine, prop room then dispensary.
cw_suicide: (304)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2020-08-25 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been really good.

[he is So Very Sane Now, actually]
bondsofsuffering: ([Dark] to try and stay alive)

Re: SESSION 9 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2020-08-25 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Then let's get going.