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. ]
neverbeentogeorgia: (contemplate my sins)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] neverbeentogeorgia 2020-08-26 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
You okay there Wendy?

[ as he grabs a VIP credit card ]
wonderlandgirl: (✽ please watch us shine)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, um... I had a bad last round, and there was nearly a fight in lockdown. But we're all back here now.
neverbeentogeorgia: (gasp)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] neverbeentogeorgia 2020-08-26 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
You met up with some of the crazies?
wonderlandgirl: (✽ a hesitation)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
D.va-chan and Prim-chan. I don't know what happened, but it seemed like Hiryuu-chan was having to... watch them.
neverbeentogeorgia: (so serious I wear fucking glasses)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] neverbeentogeorgia 2020-08-26 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well he doesn't know Prim and he's only vaguely aware of Hiryuu as someone Thorn despises, but. That's a damn shame about D.va. ]

... Well, you're with us this time, so if shit starts to go down, we can have your back, if you want.
wonderlandgirl: (✽ genuine fake)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
A-actually...

It'll take far too long to explain. But - last time, I killed D.Va-chan. And she's after - making it right...

I told her I'd go alone.
neverbeentogeorgia: (dog not house trained)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] neverbeentogeorgia 2020-08-26 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
That seems like a bad decision, if an honorable one.
wonderlandgirl: (✽ silence and motion)

Re: SESSION 11 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-08-26 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Senpai-kun... there'd have been a massacre if I hadn't. If she'd killed me then and there, Sabre-kun would have attacked her on the spot. And if Sabre-kun had been hurt, the rest of Zrael would have attacked whoever was left.

I couldn't see any other way out.