Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-08-21 11:14 pm
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Betrayal 3: pep!pep!

[ You spill out of the elevator into the ATM & Gashapon Hall—the elevator is gone when you look back.

A quiet, largely-empty and slightly musty hallway but for a handful of ATMs lined up next to a row of Imeeji Idol Productions gashapon machines that dispense stickers, photocards, and low-budget figurines of random idols. There's a promise of some special seasonal SSR figures that are… hm. Bloodstained, murderous, with missing limbs and eyes. That sure is a theme. Only 50 points a play!

It's quiet here, and you're familiar with quiet. You remember the long trek across the desert, with little companionship and fewer supplies. You remember when your sole traveling companion from those difficult, difficult years got a snake bite that turned septic, and how the rot spread, and spread, until there was only one last good thing you could do for them… and then you were alone.

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 :)"

Set on top of one of the ATMs is a stack of credit cards.

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 (Credit Card). Only once you leave your starting room does your phone update to display your role's traitor goal (to kill someone who is injured or who you deem to be suffering). 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 East. ]
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Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-26 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Wednesday!

Are you okay?

[looking her over]
wonderlandgirl: (✽ in your eyes)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
U-um, I'm all right, I think. I...

Cobalt-san, you must remember what I did last time I was here.
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Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-26 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not entirely sure I ever really knew, to be honest.
wonderlandgirl: (✽ a tactless girl)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
D.Va-chan and King-kun. They... I was with Amaranth. She'd been given seeds. I - I think whatever it was had taken her over, it had - made her want to use the seeds.

We all got in a fight. We won, so...

A-anyway. D.Va-chan is... not herself again. And she - feels like the only thing that'll help is if she kills me.

And I'm afraid.
we_meet_again: ((; ᵒ̌ ‸ ᵒ̌) ;;)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-26 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, that's not good.

Do you have something you can use to defend yourself?
wonderlandgirl: (✽ u-um... well...)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
She gave me a garrote. I don't think I could use it.

[She holds it up anyway.]

I think she's... expecting it back.
Edited 2020-08-26 02:09 (UTC)
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Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-26 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Then you can give it back to her after the game's over.

Stick close to us, okay?
wonderlandgirl: (✽ not that kind of girl)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
But--

[I promised.]

O-okay.