10IV start!

[idolpro]

Who: 10IV
Where: The 10IV dorms
When: Day 355, morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear, with a message on your phone.

Good morning, newly departed guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color. Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of hospital uniforms fitted exactly to your size.

Also, the front door is currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

Comments

[salientfacts]

Ah, I suppose... I'm back again.

I think I can say I'm glad to have made it, right?

[agentgymstudent]

You're back?

[salientfacts]

Ah, well, I was here the last time they did this sort of thing...

[agentgymstudent]

[Hello very intense look from a child.]

Last time? Tell me everything that happened.

[salientfacts]

Erm—

...well, it was a bit like this, although actually everyone's being much more orderly this time, but there's... probably fifteen other groups like this one out there.

Four of them, including us, are under this kind of contract.

[agentgymstudent]

So its two teams to live and two to die.

what about the thr other...twelve?

[irregular]

Yeah, I can't fuckin' believe it either. Guess it's all relative.

[salientfacts]

...kind of dire, huh.

[irregular]

It ain't like there are any good options. At least this one has conbini snacks.

[salientfacts]

..."conbini snacks"?

[useofsorrow]

....Again?

[salientfacts]

Ah... well, that is to say—they've run this kind of program before, although it didn't have this kind of reward offering...

...I was here last time.

[useofsorrow]

And...

[ about as gently as someone can manage while still sounding faintly incredulous— ]

...what does “last time” mean, in the context of the Demiurge’s damnation to the pits of Hell?

[salientfacts]

I'm—quite sorry, I think I'm missing some of the context, perhaps because we come from different places, but—

...they've run an event like this before, where some of us were dredged up to compete here for a brief time. In that case, the stake was merely trying not to lose in such a way that we would be indebted, so I suppose they changed it up this time.

There's some things I'd like to fix for others, though, so I supposed why not stake my life again?

[useofsorrow]

[ a pause—just long enough to be noticeable—but she nods, then ]

...I see.

I am Iris Virga. May I have your name as well?

[softmarketing]

They wanted to make things interesting again, of course.

1/2

[salientfacts]

Ah, you're—

[salientfacts]

...well, it's good to see you again, Spring. I'm a little reassured that we're on the same unit this time.

[softmarketing]

It's good to see you again too, Gryphon. Though these being better circumstances speaks volumes.

[salientfacts]

That's true.

I wonder—who would you use your prize for, if we're to win? I don't think either of us are the type who want to return personally, albeit probably for different reasons.

1/2

[softmarketing]

If I went back, I don't think I couldn't hate whatever came after.

[youarewhateatsyou]

Back?

[her voice is kind of strained but she does manage the word]

[salientfacts]

Ah, this is my second time here, Miss—I was here the last time they held this kind of event, in fact.

[youarewhateatsyou]

[:O

takes her phone and quickly tappataptaps on it]

Can you tell me more??!??

[salientfacts]

Ah, um, well—there was a game for us to participate in last time, too, but it seems like this time they're being a bit more generous with what they're giving us—

...there's probably, oh... fifteen other units out there like this one, full of people, although only three of them are here as guests like us.