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. ]
tenebraecious: (zz)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[blinking]

That is still no excuse.
we_meet_again: (( ಠ益ಠ ))

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[fucking

BRISTLES]

You think people are killing each other in here because they want to?
tenebraecious: (uu)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
If they know what circumstances they are in, then they ought to be more careful. It is not difficult to pass through here without incident if informed.
Edited 2020-08-28 02:27 (UTC)
we_meet_again: (suri140)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't matter how careful you are, or how informed. This place is a death trap by design. The ghosts get into your head and make you think and believe things that aren't you.

Why are you blaming Wednesday for things that are out of her control?
tenebraecious: (kkkk)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Because she is already blaming herself, so there is no use ignoring that fact.

We part ways here. I wish you both the safest travels.
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Just because she's blaming herself doesn't mean it's her fault, it means she's sad. She just got killed by her own friend -- feeling sad is normal.

Have a little compassion, please.
tenebraecious: (ppp)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[shaking for a moment before steeling herself, not showing any emotion]

I have compassion. I will not treat her like a child to be comforted.
we_meet_again: (suri140)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Wednesday is a child, in a situation where no child should ever be. It's hard. There is no shame in comforting someone in pain, no matter how old they are.

If you don't want to be comforting, at least be tactful, I beg of you.
tenebraecious: (rrr)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[falling silent, considering]

Do you wish to be responsible for her?
we_meet_again: ((ó﹏ò ;))

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I can be responsible for her. We're all in different rounds. It's easy to get separated. I can't control things any more than anyone else.

But I'm going to do my best to look out for her while I'm here, yes. And I'll look out for you too, if you want to come with.
tenebraecious: (fff)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[lightly shaking her head]

I cannot travel with you two as lovely as it was to see you once more. I am sorry to ask you to bear my burden.
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Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[sigh]



Okay. If that's what makes you feel more comfortable.

Please be careful.
tenebraecious: (bbbbb)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
It is what is best. I will see you at the end of this nightmare.
we_meet_again: (( ་ ⍸ ་ ))

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-08-28 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[define best]

Alright. I'll be there.

Take care, Glacies.
tenebraecious: (k)

Re: SESSION 20 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] tenebraecious 2020-08-28 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[look, you don't want one unitmate killing your other unitmate, it's just not kosher]

You as well. Safest travels.