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[idolpro]

This room is not real.

That's the first thought that crosses your mind as soon as your consciousness comes back up. You're not even sure if that's your own thought, but the feeling doesn't leave no matter how much time has passed. The room looks nice and cozy, but everything feels wrong. You don't belong here, you're you, aren't you?

Aren't you?

You'll soon notice that there are other things that just isn't right. You can talk, but is your mouth moving? You can see, but are your eyes blinking? You also have ball joints. Nothing hurts, and you're fine, but it's a little weird.

Comments

[featherbeaned]

[ SIGH ]

Hearts, legs ...

There's something up with N, too. That's three things to try to fix.

[irregular]

Yeah, he seems kinda... flat?

[featherbeaned]

Yeah. That's the word for it. Like he doesn't care.

... Would that be it? "Caring"?

[irregular]

Could be.

It'd help if whatever-it-was had hit more than one of us. But I'm pretty sure you're close.

[featherbeaned]

It's as good a guess as any.

[ They're just playing the game, she knows that, but still ]

[ rude ]

If we said heart, legs, and caring, that'd leave us with one left to protect ...

[irregular]

You wanna go with protecting the heart? Just in case there's more of that crap floating around?

[featherbeaned]

I can live with losing my legs again. Not s'much my heart.

[ She nods. ]

Next question is ... who? We're not targetting Baritones again.

[irregular]

Who'd we say? future is now, pep, sensitIV-- fuck, sensitiIV's probably the best bet. They can always heal, right? All they gotta do is eat a sandwich.

N's definitely not right.

[featherbeaned]

Hitting the healers seems like a bad idea...?

[ how does sensitiv even work, tea sure doesn't know ]

N's definitely not right.

[irregular]

First thing he said when we got in here was don't hit Taisho. So... I said we should. To test. I'm not gonna.

He said sure.

[featherbeaned]

[ her ears press back ]

And we can't even tell for sure what they took from him. [ "caring" is still her best guess. it fits, but is it right? ]

[irregular]

Whatever it is, he's callous as fuck. We - some shit went down in the hotel, with Shu. He was keener I should apologize to Shu than anything that'd happened to him. And now he's gonna throw him to the wolves?

I don't buy it.