The Last Supper - AlcheME!

[idolpro]

[ The elevator lets you out into a private room: from the decor, it is doubtlessly an enclave of the restaurant you saw earlier on screen.

Your phones have filled with a rather sizable rule list. ]

Comments

[neigh_sayer]

This game is boring! The longer I live, the longer I have sit here in this boring room, listening to these boring talks. You know what happens even if no one picks our team again? Other people will die. And they'll all keep dying until most, if not all the hearts have been eaten.

It's totally a drag.

[liftoft]

...So what's our goal here--I think we gotta figure that out before anything. Are we tryin' to get ourselves outta this? Are we tryin' to minimize damage? Or are we just... tryin' to end this game as fast as possible?

[neigh_sayer]

. . .

[frowns tapping at the plates with a fork]

Personally, I lean toward the latter two options. Minimizing damage is ideal, but it doesn't really help anything in the long term.

Deliberately going after hearts. . .or deliberately making teams berserk, seems cruel, but it'd also help bring this game to an end.

[honoraria]

The faster it ends... That's probably for the best.

[neigh_sayer]

Well, that's what I think.

But I'm not gonna lie. I said I'd leave it up to you guys, because you'd suffer the most. I'll stick to that promise.

[liftoft]

Right... but we don't have any idea who the hearts are, so at that point we're just straight playing the game as intended, ain't we?

[neigh_sayer]

Pretty much.

But if I die, there's one heart gone. And if we abstain, Taisho berserks, revealing their heart. Two birds with one stone, in a way.

The only way to root out the heart, is to reveal everyone's monster.

[honoraria]

So we aim for the teams with the fewest unknowns.

[which, I guess that means A can have his revenge on Avante after all???]

[afailedmurder]

We have a one in four shot with Wild City.

[whoops the only revenge he cares about is the one he's getting against C]

[neigh_sayer]

Which would be Avante, Bad End, Future is Now. . .and Wild City, yes.

What do we know about each of those teams.

[liftoft]

I met a whole buncha Bad End during the break, so there's a lot of 'em in this game.

[afailedmurder]

I'm vetoing Bad End. We already tried that once.

[honoraria]

That's...fair. We don't have any better idea of who the heart might be, so...

[J looks like he really, really, really does not want to be a part of this conversation

is it everyone's imagination or his hair start to lengthen and writhe a little in its ponytail...]

[neigh_sayer]

God, fine, Bad End is off the table! But if that's how you want to play, Future is Now and Avante are more reliable targets. And--

. . .

J, is your hair alright?

[honoraria]

[his eyelids droop briefly as if he's falling asleep but he forces them back open. his scrunchie quietly snaps and pings off into a corner somewhere, and...yep. hair writhing gently around his shoulders.]

I am--very stressed, right now--

[neigh_sayer]

. . .

[ah right, monsters]

I see. . .

[what if he reaches out to touch it]

[honoraria]

[a couple locks of hair lift to greet his hand, they don't seem aggressive or hostile. more...curious?

nevertheless J is going to throw himself away from C, which effectively is him tumbling out of his chair in whatever way is away from him]

Fuck! C!

[liftoft]

Avante has somebody new on it right now too, she's not really somebody I wanna attack if we can help it. The Wild City guy I spoke to didn't seem to think anything would make this situation better or worse. I didn't get a good idea of what the future is now guy thought, but he was new too...

[honoraria]

Somehow I'm not surprised. I'm not too familiar with the more established members of those teams, though.

[his scrunchie snaps and pings off into a corner, letting his long hair loose. it's...definitely writhing a little around his shoulders. hmm.]

[liftoft]

Uh... do you wanna maybe deal with--

[ gestures at the... hair ]

All o' that? If you monster out, our ability to make or execute any plans probably gets shot.

[neigh_sayer]

[mmmm a lot is happening and J is stressing out and



. . .]


Then that settles it.

I'm fine if you all want to target Wild City.

[liftoft]

You sure? Sounded like that was the team A wanted us to hit to get back at you.

[afailedmurder]

[only notices after everybody else is looking that way]

J...

[honoraria]

[his eyelids droop briefly as if falling asleep, before he forces them back open. hair is now loose and, yes, definitely writhing]

I'm trying!

[afailedmurder]

I don't know how to say this, but... we may need to send you...