necROMANTIC start!

[idolpro]

Who: necROMANTIC
Where: The necROMANTIC dorms
When: Day 355

[ 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 fantasy medieval clothes 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

[worldcup]

... Are you okay?

[ Obviously she doesn't look like she is, but Illya decides to ask regardless. ]

[creativethots]

[She shrinks back a little at first, but then getting a better look at the other girl...]

--hold up, who the hell are you?!

[worldcup]

[ She just... sighs. ]

Illyasviel von Einzbern. We're part of the same unit.

[creativethots]

Huuuh? The hell's that?

[Processing belatedly--]

...wait. That's the thing that shitty message was talking about. So what, this time we're supposed to work together? Haha real funny. No way. It ain't gonna work.

[worldcup]

Yeah, we are. But why do you think it's not going to work?

[creativethots]

I've heard it all before. "We'll all get out of here together and be BEST FRIENDS" or "It'll work for sure this time we can't give up"-- spoiler alert. It never works.

Just wait. There's gonna be some nasty twist just waiting around the corner. There's no way any of this is the way it sounds. Trust me. I have plenty of experience.

[worldcup]

I've been here before, so I know what this place is like. We do at least have to cooperate in games, though.

This unit, as a whole.

Otherwise, it's possible that people are going to get hurt, or die again. Even if you'll come back, it isn't fun.

[creativethots]

[ppppppppproccessing.]

Wait. So this is for real? This isn't some lameass continuation of that ugly bear's game?

Then that means... I'm really...

[She takes a moment to process that there's no trick to her memory this time.




...puts that on the backburner. She can work through that shit later. More importantly--]

...alright. You've been here before. What the hell do we do? And how do we win?

[worldcup]

It is real.

Well, first you need to pick a color on the phone. And in terms of what we need to do... once we can get out, probably participate and run some Lives to get points and wait for the next game to start.

[creativethots]

...color? What's so important about a color?

[worldcup]

It's going to be one of the colors that all your outfits are going to be. And we won't be able to leave until you choose.

[creativethots]

Ughh. Fiiiiiiiine.

[SLAPS DOWN AN ACCEPTABLE COLOR.]

Now can we get the hell out of here?

[worldcup]

Depends if everyone else did.

[creativethots]

You're tellin' me I gotta wait for everyone?! What a pain in the ass.

...so what's the deal with these "Lives" anyway? Whadda we gotta do?

[worldcup]

...Unfortunately.

Hm -- [ takes out her phone and looks through it ] They're basically performances. We have "trial", "judgement", and "execution" as our Live options.

[creativethots]

Wh-- AGAIN?!

[This continues to be the worst experience of deja vu ever.]

N-now I know this stupid game is fucking with me. It's just like before...

[Don't mind her, she's just trying to figure it out.]

B-but then why aren't the others here? Not even the others who got murdered... what the fuck is going on here?

[worldcup]

...? Is something wrong? It's just performances.

[creativethots]

........wait. You mean. As in it's all fake? Like some weak-ass courtroom drama tv show?!

[worldcup]

Sooomething like that... although I guess some people could actually do it for real and it'd still count.

[creativethots]

What the--

...so in order to "win" I have to relive those shitty fucking things all over again? This is...

[She holds her head in her hands, shaking.]

...Being dead might be better.

[worldcup]

You don't have to if you don't want to.

I'll carry everyone if I have to do it myself.

[creativethots]

[......................]

Wh-why in the hell would you do that? What reason do you have to go that far?

[worldcup]

I want to win, you see? And I'm good at doing that.

[creativethots]

...jeez.

[......................]

Listen, if it's fake then fine. But the minute someone winds up dead, I'm outta there.

[worldcup]

... Someone's going to wind up dead sooner or later.

[ She knows what the games are like. ]

It's going to be hard to avoid. Even though they can be revived.