WED BED BEHEAD: avante en garde

[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: LiliS, Heart Soldier Senshi, & AlcheME!. 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

[softlyfalling]

WED: Heart Soldier Senshi
BED: AlcheME!
BEHEAD: LiliS

RESULTS

[idolpro]

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

How exciting! It seems Heart Soldier Senshi and AlcheME! have chosen to wed you, while LiliS has chosen to bed you. Thus, your final verdict is...

Wed.

Wed.

Bed.

[You black out.

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

Around your neck and wrists are faintly glowing red marks in a pattern of lace. When you receive a command, they turn white, and you feel compelled to obey, whether the command was given as an earnest order or not. While the marks are white you are convinced that following the command is what you want to do, but once you've done it they go back to red and leave you fully aware.

You black out again.

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

Around your finger is a red mark -- a ring of words: "Til Death Do Us Part". At first, it seems to do nothing, however, once you have come close to "someone to whom your fate is bound", you'll find you can't get more than 5 feet away from them. It can be someone you love or someone you hate, but whenever you reach the 5 foot distance from your partner, you feel yourself dragged along by your hand to follow and stay close. This connection can only be severed by the death of one party (symbolic deaths count).

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.

Gently, they place their hands somewhere on your body, pulling two pieces of you together -- your wrists, your knees, perhaps they simply force your mouth closed. With their hands firmly pressed you feel a sharp pain cracking through your joints as they shatter and fuse back together as one. Whatever joints were touched, they are now immobile and inseparable, and it aches ceaselessly.

You black out again.

You received 4 points. You may proceed to endgame.]

[worthathousand]

[ sees the units in the room with her ]















[ fuck. ]

[softlyfalling]

[ oh that's bad ]

[worthathousand]

...Eclipse is here too.

[purrrnicious]

[Immediately:]

We're doing 'wed' for Heart.





[And then pacing the perimeter of their room back and forth like pretty much any footage you've ever seen of a stressed sad dog/cat/rabbit/etc abandoned in a shelter.]

[worthathousand]

...Yes. We are.

[ well that was easy :)))
Amaranth is scanning the faces in the room now, looking a little distant. ]

[gigadevilbreaker]

...Amaranth?

[you... you good?]

[unbr8kable]

[Welcome to Avante]

Guess we should be happy Gold ain't here.

[deicider]

[Internal sigh of relief Cardinal doesn't have a horse in this race. They're not giving off any particular vibe.]

[worthathousand]

Cardinal.




[ her voice is lowered, but her tone is artificially mild ] I'm not alright.

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ There is some amount of relief that neither BARiTONES, sensitIV, or Taisho are here. There's a small knot in his stomach, looking at AlcheME! but... this is infinitely better than he might have expected. ]

. . . It appears that our options are before us. While I am loath to play this game of theirs, I'm not sure that randomizing it is any better?

Regardless, I have a preference of my own, but I am sure all of us have an opinion on the matter. What are you all thinking, dear avante?

I, for one, would prefer we go lightly upon AlcheME.

[softlyfalling]

I'd not want to send them the worst kind of punishment, to be sure, and I don't think we should leave it to chance—we do have some people who care a great deal about Heart Soldier's welfare, so...

[ lilis though,,, ]

[purrrnicious]

No.

[That's it, that's her contribution.]

[gigadevilbreaker]

Even if we only bed AlcheME, that means beheading Lilis.

...I know they're used to being put last, outta everyone. They probably aren't feeling any hope for surviving.

[unbr8kable]

[Just sighs, flopping down to the couch]

There gonna be any strategy to this or just some bullshit low-key emotional bullying over whose important people're the most importantest?

[deicider]

[Cardinal pulls out a a notebook.]

I have no idea how any of the other teams are going to play. You want to vote?

[softlyfalling]

Well I think I'd ideally want to do the former. I think—well, hm.

[ she glances at the three units presented to them— ]

...probably, our question is whether we want to try to additionally protect anyone.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I will feel sorry for the losing unit. Since it just seems cruel to make an entire team of individuals feel they are unimportant in the scheme of things.

[gigadevilbreaker]

If it were up to you, how would you play?

[gigadevilbreaker]

Okay, um. Shit...

How do we figure everyone else is gonna play?

[purrrnicious]

I don't care. We're playing 'wed' for Heart, you can figure out the rest.

[Stares him down for like 5.6 seconds before she resumes her anxious pacing.]

[softlyfalling]

...well, by these rules—I'd expect Heart Soldier to try and protect another unit. AlcheME... I'm not sure. I'm not sure about LiliS, either; it depends on who's there.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I haven't been here long enough to get a feeling for the playing style of other units.

From everything I have heard, Heart tends to be the sacrificial sort, doesn't it?