Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-08-21 11:39 pm
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Betrayal 3: BARiTONES

[ You spill out of the elevator into the Bar—the elevator is gone when you look back.

It’s surprisingly quiet, here, with muted, upbeat jazz playing from speakers tucked away somewhere, and a bar long enough to give you some space. Curtained booths are set against the back wall for quiet dining or clandestine meetings. The specials menu gives a full array of… poison-themed cocktails?

At the other end of the room, a single spotlight shines on a raised stage, with a microphone, almost as if waiting for a show to begin.

What poor soul's going to perform? Not you—you do enough of that all day, every day, after all. After all, you learned early on that's how the game was played. You watched money change hands—quietly, discreetly—and despite how many late nights you'd pulled working on your case, it meant nothing in the face of whose wallet was biggest and who knew who in the circles of the rich and powerful. So to get what you wanted, you'd make yourself one of them, as long as you need to for it to serve your purpose—

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 polished, round pocket watch on a long, dangling chain, ticking rhythmically, rests on the bar.

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 (Hypnotist's Watch). Only once you leave your starting room does your phone update to display your role's traitor goal (kill someone after helping them). 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 West. ]
firstworldproblem: (2-2)

Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose the first question is how many of you are still sane? Relatively, before you ask.

[Says the man in armor with an axe.]
notadrop: (45)

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[personal profile] notadrop 2020-08-26 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm good.

[ says the dragon dualwielding a crossbow and a pistol. ]
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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I see you are well prepared. Shall we pair up?
notadrop: (71)

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[personal profile] notadrop 2020-08-26 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Like, duh. I'm not letting you get your hands removed while you're trapped in the ankle breaking room 'cause you're too old to not break your ankles.

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temperedinpride: (97)

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[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel quite well, mentally.
firstworldproblem: (D_hkOc3U4AADttu)

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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The normal. I see. I do hope the gun came in handy.
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[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite. It is the reason Thancred and Ao are both rather dead and likely full of murder.

How have you been faring?
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Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Let us see.... Thancred and Leviathan of sensitIV are unsafe, D.va of heart, and Ao ofTaisho I know for certain.

Do not go south from the room right outside this one.

If you feel anxious the room south of the basement landing is soothing, the fortune teller, Taisho's starting room is the revitilization center, also good. The pool may be beneficial? The gift shop west and south of the casino is. All the way north and east of the buffer is a gacha machine with merch.

One south of the second floor is an annoying room that is hard to navigate but one west of that is the prop room, quite useful, and there's a hidden passage out once you are in there. It seems to lead to random rooms each time.
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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
... You've been busy.
temperedinpride: (23)

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[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I almost forgot to mention Taisho's objective is to share something vulnerable before killing. And you know bad end's but I'll repeat for everyone, they seek the unworthy.

I have been.

[pulls a Gossip Rag from his pocket and tucks it into Emet's.

Gossip Rag
When you enter another room that has a character you have not previously met that is a traitor, gain one knowledge.
Discard this item to add 3 dice to your attack roll, but you may only use that attack to steal something.
]
firstworldproblem: (475)

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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He just doesn't comment. Sure. Thanks buddy.]

Ah, I had wondered.
notadrop: (45)

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[personal profile] notadrop 2020-08-26 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a reaaaason you know they're unsafe, orrrr...
temperedinpride: (44)

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[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I killed Thancred for our objective and Ao in self-defense. Vergil killed Leviathan apparently. And D.va may or may not be fine but her unit seemed wary of her.
notadrop: (49)

Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] notadrop 2020-08-26 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
If something's even like kinda mindfucky it's probably best to assume D.va's batshit because her baseline is like, already halfway there on account of all the demonfucking.

Anyway, good job not dying.
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[personal profile] innerdaemons 2020-08-26 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
-- Well! They're going for a second round of this, are they?
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[personal profile] notadrop 2020-08-26 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ flops on him

while, you know, carrying a gun and a crossbow ]

I'm soooooo tiiiiiiiiired.
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[personal profile] innerdaemons 2020-08-26 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ pat pat ]

You could always simply stay here, you realize?
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[personal profile] notadrop 2020-08-26 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not staying here alone if you're all leaving! Don't be stupid!

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Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you haven't had the joy again yet? Welcome.

[They gave him an axe again. How fun!]
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Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] innerdaemons 2020-08-26 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Not yet! I quite dearly looking forward to it.

[ HOW FUN!! ]


Any recommendations, before we proceed ... ?
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Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-08-26 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Lahabrea has them. South of the room right next to us is a one way ticket down. Highly do not recommend.

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Re: SESSION 13 DISCUSSION

[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[You! Look like you! Need a dagger and some knives neither of which are game items but are nice items to have. Just handing them over after his info dump.]
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[personal profile] innerdaemons 2020-08-26 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ tips his head ACCEPTING THE KNIVES AND DAGGERS ]

You have my thanks!

Now -- have you all been sticking together, or splitting off? I have my preferences, but.
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[personal profile] temperedinpride 2020-08-26 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Splitting mostly. My first run I went with Emet-Selch and my second I took Lily and Paloma took Eichi and Wildfire. Last time I was alone.

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