Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

[ The elevator opens up to a room spacious enough to house the whole unit comfortably, but with no furniture to speak of except a touchscreen podium near the far wall, displaying a row of four larger-than-life mahjong tiles on a red background. On the left side of the screen is a square that says TRADE. The walls and floor of the room are nearly checkered with metal panels, out of place against the rest of the marble flooring and unremarkable off-white walls.

The elevator doors close behind you. ]

Comments

ROUND 1

[idolpro]

HAND

[idolpro]

[ Touching one of the mahjong tiles will bring up a textbox underneath it with a brief description of the attack associated with the tile. Your starting hand is this: ]

3 bamboo (unable to eat)

1 characters (getting dust in an eye)

8 bamboo (losing a limb)

1 bamboo (lost sense of taste)

TRADE

[idolpro]

[ Units may touch the TRADE button on the screen to place their hand up for trade. Please submit trade requests by 3:30PM PST at the latest to give everyone time to discuss their new hand, and consider a tile from your starting hand as a backup in case another unit is not available to exchange. Trade availability cannot be retracted. ]

TURN IN

[idolpro]

[ Please reply here with both your tile choice and your three choices for target unit. Turn-in is due at 4PM PST. ]

[fiberoptic]

1 characters (getting dust in an eye)

1st choice: avante en garde
2nd choice: ☆ZRAEL
3rd choice: WILD CITY

RESULT

[idolpro]

[ The metal panels open up to produce metallic hands that grab just one of you by the jaw. Resisting it is futile - running away even moreso. With a great strength the hand squeezes down on your jaw, separate metal appendages hooking around your teeth to wrench your mouth open - it's like going to the dentist, but even more terrifying!

An oddly-shaped metal clamp with a twisting knob at the end starts being inserted into your mouth, with more metal appendages pinching your tongue to stay still - that's right, the clamp does look like it's shaped like a tongue, doesn't it?

A metal appendage twists the knob, and the clamp starts to tighten. Twist, twist, twist - it starts to seal, digging into the back of your mouth until the metal starts to cut in, and then it goes further. Twist, twist, twist. There's the taste of metal and - well, no, you can't taste blood without a tongue but you can imagine that the liquid in your mouth is probably blood.

Finally, the clamp shutters completely shut, metal hitting metal, and the metal appendages pull back to disappear into the metal panels, taking your tongue with it.

It isn't over, though. A few more metal panels open up, and metal appendages appear from behind them, most with gripping rubber on the ends, which shooting towards the closest person to hold their head in a vice grip, while the small circular chainsaw attached to the last one moves in and whirs loudly next to the person's ear as it cuts through the base, cleanly slicing through until the whole things comes off. Another metal pincer catches it and takes it with it as the mechanical arms all retreat back behind the panels, which close behind them. ]

Round 1 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Okay but did anyone catch the part where that guy said he graduated from being an idol? And is now apparently helping out? Like what the fuck. AND ALSO WHAT IS WITH THIS GAME OF MAHJONG FROM HELL. ] "Lose a limb?!"

[fiberoptic]

Calm down, Princess.

[Wire's deep in thought, and his thinking face looks very pissed off.]

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He isn't heading in until he confirms that other teams are showing up, and that it's not going to be a full-on boycott, the way Wire had suggested. Consequentially, he's a couple of minutes late. Just going to start scanning the instructions, getting paler and paler as he gets caught up.]

What the hell.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ I mean, she knew this stuff was going to get bad? She's seen memories of children being beaten, she's no disillusions as to the kinds of things they think are "entertaining" to expose people to. Still. ]

This was not exactly the way I imagined these games would go.</td> </tr> </table>

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[made_up_names]

[ UM

UMMMMM ]

What the heck is going on?

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[dragonheartedgirl]

Our hosts have escalated their nastiness, evidently.

Re: Round 1 Discussion

[crossmyheartandhope]

Game time, I guess.

[His arm's out of the splint, oddly enough. It looks fine now.]

[fiberoptic]

The real games are starting.

[fiberoptic]

[Okay. He's thought this out. So he's just gonna lay his thoughts on the table.]

So. We lucked out on only having one tile that will completely fuck someone up. That means we have to trust the other teams won't use theirs if they've got the choice.

We've got no control over what they're sending our way. But we can choose the message we want to send. It might make us look like easy targets for the future... but would you live with yourselves knowin' you did the opposite?

[made_up_names]

[ Spidey shakes his head hard. ]

We gotta be the good guys. Even if it means we take a fall sometimes. Right?

ROUND 2

[idolpro]

HAND

[idolpro]

[ Touching one of the mahjong tiles will bring up a textbox underneath it with a brief description of the attack associated with the tile. Your starting hand is this: ]

2 dots (sore throat)

6 bamboo (losing a finger)

7 dots (losing an ear)

8 bamboo (losing a limb)

TRADE

[idolpro]

[ Please submit trade requests by 5PM PST at the latest to give everyone time to discuss their new hand, and consider a tile from your starting hand as a backup in case another unit is not available to exchange. Trade availability cannot be retracted. ]

TURN IN

[idolpro]

[ Please reply here with both your tile choice and your three choices for target unit. Turn-in is due at 5:30PM PST. ]

Round 2 Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Round 2 Discussion

[made_up_names]

[ OH. GOD.

Spidey is just staring in horror at his teammates right now. ]

H-hey, that's - that's a lot of blood --

[ It's a good thing he bought a new outfit because he's gonna try holding out his hoodie to stop bleeding for one or both teammates. ]

[fiberoptic]

[WELL. WIRE'S NOT GOING TO BE CONTRIBUTING A LOT TO THIS DISCUSSION

since he's doubled over trying to not bleed to death]

Re: Round 2 Discussion

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Oh my god, that is a lot of blood.]