WED BED BEHEAD: pep!pep!

[idolpro]

[You wake alone with your unit in what appears to be a dressing room. There's nothing on the costume racks right now, but you have vanity seats and a couch to chill on if you like.

On a table in the center of the room, there is an ornate metal box with three slots on top. The slots are labeled with the names of three other units: Taisho Roman Revolution, WILD CITY, & ☆ZRAEL. Next to the box a laminated copy of the IC rules is taped down, and beside it lie four cards:

♦ a green card with a picture of two linked rings and the word "WED"
♦ a blue card with a picture of a rose and the word "BED"
♦ a red card with a picture of a guillotine and the word "BEHEAD"
♦ a purple card with a picture of two circling arrows and the word "INSTEAD"

You have til 9pm PST to submit your votes.]

Comments

DECISION

[idolpro]

Reminder: You must cast a vote for wed, bed, & behead. You may optionally cast a single Instead vote. If you use Instead, please specify if you are giving the target your best or worst card.

If you don't vote at all, your votes will be randomized and you will receive the punishment listed in the rules.

Decisions are due by 9pm PST.

Re: DECISION

[quickpersuader]

Wed: ☆ZRAEL
Bed: Taisho
Behead: WILD CITY

No instead card.

RESULTS

[idolpro]

[Anemone's voice cuts in over the intercom, as the lights go dark.]

How exciting! It seems Taisho Roman Revolution has chosen to wed you! WILD CITY and ☆ZRAEL chose to bed you. Thus, your final verdict is...

Wed.

Bed.

Bed.

[You black out.

You wake up with the sound of wedding bells ringing in your head, vows of unity echoing vaguely in your memory.

Your body is made of crystal clear glass, fragile and yet somehow still able to move. It can crack and chip, though it will never completely shatter. Rather than blood, the glass is filled with a shimmering liquid in your personal image colour which, when spilled through the cracks, results in a loss of identity -- you'll start to adopt the personality traits of your unitmates and believe them to be your own.

You black out again.

You wake up tied down to a four-poster bed, all draped in velvet sheets and golden tassels. It's quite comfortable, until the person -- one whose features you cannot recall -- leans over you.

They carry a bucket, sloshing and sizzling with some unknown solution with fumes that burn your sinuses. Without ceremony they toss it over you, and your skin begins to blister and peel. Though the burns are only skin-deep, they are as agonizing as fire.

You black out again.

You wake up tied down to a four-poster bed, all draped in velvet sheets and golden tassels. It's quite comfortable, until the person -- one whose features you cannot recall -- leans over you.

They pull a glittering glass vial from a table nearby, and pop the stopper, letting a perfumed smell fill the air. Before you can protest the vial is poured over your head, shimmering liquid running down your face. At first it feels like nothing, but as it seems into your skin you feel dizzy and sick, and your insides cramp. The feeling fades soon enough… but every so often it returns, and when it does your senses are filled with colourful spots and that sick, sweet smell.

You black out again.

You received 5 points. You may proceed to endgame.]

[quickpersuader]

[...Hhhhhuh.]

[nutsandrevolts]

Er. Since 'none of the above' ain't an option, I guess I ain't got no thoughts on the strategy here...?

[quickpersuader]

Even if we don't put anything in, people will still get punished, we just won't have any control over it.

We can use the "instead" card to either try to save ourselves or save another unit... but that depends a lot on what we receive.

[nutsandrevolts]

It's probably gonna sound selfish, but Peppers are my number one, here.

[quickpersuader]

It's the same for me, so I can't really blame you.

[wonderlandgirl]

D-do you think any of them would be looking out for us...?

[quickpersuader]

Not that I know of, but I'm not very close with many other units.

[wonderlandgirl]

A-are we going to be held to this...? I don't want to marry all of Wild City...

[quickpersuader]

...I don't think they're going to make us literally marry everyone?

[wonderlandgirl]

It's just another pick-who-gets-hurt thing again, then...?

[Wednesday isn't surprised, not really.

[She would have liked to be surprised.]

[quickpersuader]

That's my guess, at least.

...

But I suppose they could just have mass weddings, too, if they really wanted...

[romanticlove]

Please can we give a Wed card to Taisho?

[Just... hovering about uneasily at their options tbh.]

[nutsandrevolts]

[Uncharacteristically gently:]

I'm fine with that, Renny. I dunno if anyone else's got folk they gotta watch for, though.

[romanticlove]

Thank you. I know there are others like Sabre on ☆Zrael... but... I just- I don't know.

[nutsandrevolts]

I ain't assured it'd be right fer me to wade in and take a side. But it's on account of yer folks, yeah?

[wonderlandgirl]

Um... but... Nova-chan, what about ☆ZRAEL...? I don't want Sabre-kun to be hurt either...

[romanticlove]

[She looks stricken. She honestly hadn't expected anyone to object.]

Right. These cards... they're about points, right? Or the cards... maybe we could swap using the purple card?

[wonderlandgirl]

I'm sorry, Nova-chan. But... she's said it before. She thinks - her whole unit, she thinks we'll just think it's all right, because it's ☆ZRAEL...

I can't just say nothing.

[wonderlandgirl]

They don't mean it all literally, do they...?

[nutsandrevolts]

What do ya wanna do, Birdy?

[wonderlandgirl]

I'm not sure...

I want to protect ☆ZRAEL. I want to protect us. I-- I don't know.

[nutsandrevolts]

[Assuming she's had her screen reader go through all the rules for her -- sorry team]

Well –– the last one's easy, if I'm getting this okay? We don't play that 'astead' card none. That's all we can do from here, to look out for peppers.